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have been seriously lax in posting about the girls. Not like there’s been anything else going on…..

Back to Christmas: Here are videos from Kayla’s orchestra concert.

The last one is her favorite. Mad Russian’s Christmas is a Trans-Siberian Orchestra song, so it is a little strange and fun all together.  In the world of music, Kayla is leaving at the end of April for a 4 day trip to Boston with the school. She is excited for the coming trip since last year’s trip was SO fun.

Kayla also got to attend the state robotics championship just last month. This was super exciting since the WA team has not been invited in 6 six years. They finished 22nd out of 36th, which was pretty impressive for a team that meets 40 minutes per week and had one sponsor (other teams there meet every day in school as a class and have 5 sponsors for money). The girls on the team are all excited about what they learned from walking around and checking out what other teams did. Here are some photos from the day and a video of their robot Tesla in a match. He is the robot with the scissor lift that picks up the ball.

Ashley went to another karate tournament. She took 1st place in basics, 4th place in kata, and tried sparring. Here is a video of her kata.

Big things coming up! Two girls will have their Golden Birthdays in the same year! We see our first one in just a few days as my “baby” and first born hits that magical 16. Yikes.