Another fencing class

We finished another fencing class.  It was probably Evelyn's last.  While she doesn't particularly enjoy it, she's pretty good at it.  But, she is now officially too old for my class.  I'm a little hesitant to have her join Ada and Sam in the older class, but she's the age that Sam was when he did.  

This round, we only had 4 students.  That was good so that I could get Seth and Liam to learn not to be at each others throats always.  Now they are friends that only get mad if they're in a really competitive mood.  Maybe Julie Seal will like having Seth as a student when he's old enough... enough competitiveness to run in his blood.

We got there for our class competition and all our equipment was locked in the closet.  I have a key, but apparently the doorknob had broken and they hadn't given me the new key yet.  Mark Stasinos had to run over and get me in.  It was very kind of him.  It was fun to have Grandma and Grandpa Wilcox at the competition while they were down here to help Sharon with her new baby.  I had told my kids that they were driving down from their mission for about a week.  Seth didn't understand that it was his Wilcox grandparents.... He walked into the house and ran back right out to me, "Mom!  It's not Dad's parents, it's yours!"  And I didn't think about it at the time, but one of my students, Dillan, is my cousin's son and his grandparents just moved here so they came to our competition.  That was a nice surprise for my Dad to see his brother.  Dad and Wayne were good friends growing up most of the time, just like all siblings that were born oldest and 2nd oldest.

Seth kept saying that he has Spiderman powers today, so Evelyn said that she had ninja powers.  She said, "In a fight between Spiderman and (La)Lloyd who would win?"

Janelle, my Dad, Wayne, Margo, my Mom

Seth and Evelyn were our last bout.  It was fun to see them fence together, but Seth got tired of fencing by the last two points and just stood there while Evelyn hit him.  Callin helped me ref.  He was very enthusiastic to help.  Ada and Brant sat on the bench and drew pictures for each other.  That was cute too.

Liam, Seth, Dillan, Evelyn

Evelyn won all three of her bouts and each of the boys beat one other boy so for the first time in my 7 years of teaching we had one class champion and three second places.  It was really cute.  All the kids were super proud of themselves and Seth, while he doesn't mind being second, tried to convince Evelyn to give him her trophy.

Afterwards, we went out to get dinner and Nellie used her Cinemark ticket rollovers to take us all out to see How to Train your Dragon 3.  That was really kind of her.  We've gotten to the point where it costs about $60 to go see a movie.  We don't do that very often anymore.