Lacrosse

Another season of lacrosse in the books! This year it was just the girls. They all love the sport and Ben was a little less excited about it last year. 

Rosie grew dramatically as a player this year. I think she scored either 0 or 1 goal last year. This year she ended with 48. She was a dominant player on her team despite being a 2nd grader on a 2nd/3rd grade team. We're looking forward to seeing what she does next year! She played almost exclusively middie and seemed to enjoy it.

Finding some shade with her friend Violet (played her first season) and Ella (long time teammate).

With Ada - the other high scorer this year (also a 2nd grader).

In the last game of the season, she had to rock paper scissors Ada for who had to be in goal (the only two on their team who hadn't done it yet). While they scored on her quite a bit, she did have two saves!

Rosie's team:

Then with the whole group - there were 3 9U teams this year!

Fierce Rosie:

Jane's fourth season on the Warriors was challenging as she had a good thing going last year with several of her teammates that moved up onto the middle school team this year. The girls played full field (12 players) with a roster of only 13 girls. This meant there were entire games with no subs. They played hard though and won about half their games. Jane also plays almost exclusively middie, only sliding into attack or defense when she needed a break and they had no subs. I think she ended the season with around 30 goals - definitely a leading scorer on her team.

Jane with Leighton who is on her team every other year.

Stick checks:

Trying to find some shade on a sunny day:

She continues to take almost every draw:

With her tiny but mighty team!

Love this girl's work ethic:

Eleanor came out of nowhere this year with an incredible knack for defense. Last year, moving up to the middle school team was tough as they moved to a bigger field, had a large team with not a lot of playing time, and she was just smaller than most girls. This year she proved to be a great asset to her team, preventing goals, causing turnovers, and moving the ball back up the field.

Huddling from the wind with her team and the twins:

Hannah came to see a game!

Crushing it on the middle school fields:

We had many drives back from the beach that looked like this:

Upstairs renovation

Well, as port of the downstairs project, we also got our upstairs bathrooms updated. There were a couple bigger issues - tiles cracked and coming up off the floor, cracked sinks, lighting issues, etc. 

First Chris and my bathroom:

Pre-renovation:

Demo...

Days 3-6:

The floor tile coming out was so rough that it started knocking the dry wall off the ceiling in our kitchen:

Starting to lay the groundwork back in, starting with cement backing for tile:

Tile on the floors going in:

And starting on the shower:

Then they started on the shower walls and the vanities arrived:

Finishing up the tile:

Countertops got delivered...unfortunately the wrong ones...

And then they started painting...

Then glass arrived:

And finally all the random little odds and ends:

Primary bathroom updates:

And then we have the hall bathroom (the kids' bathroom):

Pre-renovation:

Then the beginning of demo:

Day 2 and beyond they made a lot of quick progress:

Tiles up and then starting to cut out the tub/shower:

Then they put in the new bathtub and concrete board to lay new tile on:

Tile starting to go in:

Then they started tiling around the tub:

Vanity arrived:

Then countertops:

Paint:

Fixtures coming in:

And all the little details:

Hall bathroom updates: