Mika in Disneyland for Spring Break!

Mika had Spring Break a lot sooner than the 2 other "kids" in our family and this year she was going with some friends from College - the U of U to Disneyland. They drove down there and we gone for 4 day and she had a blast. Here are a few pictures from her trip!!

 Mika and her friends from the U of U in front of Disney-land's famous Castle

Girl time with Withney and Christine.

Group at Disney at night!

At the beach. Whitney had only been a few times before so they had to stop!!

Mika had so much fun with her friends and I am so glad she went!! We love you so MUCH Miks ;o)

McKay asked Baylee to Senior Ball at WXHS

McKay had NEVER asked a girl to go to any dances with him so this was a FIRST. He has gone with Baylee before to the Christmas Dance, she asked him to go and they are great "friends", so of course he wanted to ask her to go with him.

Here are a few pictures from how he asked her and when she answered back:o)

Taylor, McKay and Spencer with the sign McKay left by Baylee's door. If she had 3 Wishes would one of them be to go to Senior Ball with him? ;o)

We had made TONS of balloons with 3 little fishes on them all = the 3 wishes and on 5 of the balloons where McKay's name so she knew it was him that asked her to go to the dance!

Here is Baylee's answer!!!

I think she said YES!!!

She did say YES and do you see the little saying up in the TOP RIGHT corner? That is in Danish :o)

So McKay and Baylee are going to Senior Ball together with a group of other friends on April 14th , 2012. I know they are going to have a great time with LOTS of fun!!

Fundraising for WXHS Track team!

Millika had to Fund-raise for WXHS Track team! She had to get a total of $35 and then anything else would give her things. If she got more than $50 it will go to her fees for the Track season.

So what did Millika come up with, well she is clever and here is what she did.... 

She gave HUGS for $1 a piece. 

She got a $35 anonymous donation today first day and she raised a total of $50. She will be doing it for 2 more days and I am sure she will do great ;o) Way to go Millika you are totally AWESOME!!

McKay went to National Qualifier in PF to try and make it to Nationals.

McKay and Tuscan are like I said before VERY new debate partners and they are both new to PF = Public Forum this year. For this National Qualifier in PF every school took their VERY best teams. Woods Cross High School were allow to take 3 teams and McKay and Tuscan were one of those teams.

There were 13 schools about 40 PF teams of the BEST of the BEST. Of course they were all Varsity level and some had gone to Nationals before. It was a 2 day debate tournament and you had to debate 6 times and you could only loose 1 time because the 2nd time you would be out.

Well McKay and Tuscan lost their first round and they were a bit down because they knew they had to win the rest to make it to Nationals. So there were nerves going into 2nd round, but as some of you know McKay does VERY well with a situation like that. At the end of the first day they were 2-1, 2 wins and 1 loss. They were the ONLY team from WXHS that went on to the next day.

On the second day they won their first round and got a by to go on to the Semi Finals. This was amazing they got this far begin so new and all. And in the Semi Finals they met a team that went to Nationals last year and are ranked 39 th in the Nation. What do you think happened? ......... McKay and Tuscan bet them and got in the Finals.

There were 3 Finals because 3 teams can go on to Nationals. And guess what..........? McKay and Tuscan WON!!!! They are one of those 3 teams that are going to debate in The US National High School Debate Tournament in Indianapolis in Indiana on June 10-15, 2012. It is a 5 day tournament and they give away $200,000 in Scholarships. Harvard and Standford Universities will be there and it is the place to go if you want to go anywhere in debate. AND McKay made it as a Junior, unbelievable and so fun!

McKay with the plaque they got for winning!

It says 3rd place but they really took 1st. It were a 3 way tie for the 3 teams that are going on to nationals. But because McKay and Tuscan had 1 loss they got the plaque that said 3rd place.

 

The US National High School Debate Tournament Indianapolis in Indiana.

I am still in chock that they made it. I will be going to Indiana in June now with McKay :o) It is the first time EVER that Woods Cross High School has a PF team go to Nationals in the 20+ years Mrs. Gregg have been teaching Debate at the school. She was so proud of McKay and Tuscan that she shed a little tear. 

Congrats McKay, you are totally cool and very smart! And I think law school is a great choice you have made.

McKay won Region Championship in PF debate!

As most of you know McKay has now been on the WXHS debate team for about 1 1/2 years. He took 5th in State last year in Congress and he had many other wins last year too. Well this year he deiced that he was going to try some new and he changed categories, which you normally do not do on the Debate team. You start the 3 years with one place and stay there. But not McKay. He wants to try and get a scholarship in Debate so he deiced to try and do PF = Pubic Forum. In PF you have a partner and you debate together. McKay's debate partner is a guy named Tuscan.

When they go on "stage" Tuscan write all the facts down and sets the case and McKay is the closer. They have met teams that have debated for almost 3 full years together and beat them. And like the title of this post stats they are Region Champions.

There were 6 schools and many PF teams and McKay and Tuscan beat them all. They are very "young" together and both Juniors. They competed at Varsity Level and many times are the underdog. But they did it, they took Region ;o) They were the best team from WXHS too!!

 The little coin says Region Champs in PF 2012. Way to go McKay and Tuscan!

Next week they are going to the National Qualifier to see if they can make it to Nationals. Here they are true young and the under dogs but you never know!!

McKay going to Sweethearts Dance at Woods Croos High School!

As you have seen McKay was asked to go to the Sweethearts Dance with a good friend. The Teenagers over here do this a lot. They ask their friends not just the ones they have a crush on:o) So this time McKay went with a friend.

McKay and Ashley ready to go to the dance. And see he is even wearing a PURPLE tie:o)

They ALWAYS go as a group to the dances and here is the people McKay went with. Do you see the girl in the "peach" dress. That is Baylee McKay's "girlfriend" :o) They went together for the Christmas Dance but you never go with the same girl twice in a row so he has to look at her from afar :o)

McKay had a great time and he is beginning to like dancing better. He was a little worried at the first dance but now he is going out there and giving it all like he does with most things in life :o)

McKay was asked to Sweethearts Dance

We heard a knock on the door and Lulu went barking like crazy as always and this is what we found outside our door:o)

A heart attack was on our door..... McKay was asked to go to the Sweethearts Dance.

This was from one of McKay's good friends Ashley.

 Hearts all over what a cute idea.

We answered back with 7 windmills 3 feet tall (About 90 cm) and a poster. We wrote "I would be blown away to go to the dance with you". On the "wings" of the windmills it said yes,yes, yes. We put those in her yard and the poster by her front door. I wish I would have gotten a picture it looked so cute!!