End of Basketball Season ~ Girls at State!

Wow!  I can't believe how long it has been since I have blogged!  Not quite sure what I have been busy doing but whatever it is, it has been fun!  Once again, the kids continue to take up most of our time!  We ended the Freshman Basketball season in 3rd place and then continued to follow the Varsity girls as they made their journey to the State Tournament once again!  The kids and their friends even had some school spirit in the student section!

Tip Off Dance 2011

Tip Off Dance started at about 1:00pm with Bowling.  The group had a great time!

The original plan was to go to Olive Garden but being so young they forgot that they may need reservations.  So on to plan two...Louie's in Meridian!

Tip Off Dance followed the Girls Basketball Game on Friday night.  Tip Off was girls ask boys and Cody was asked by two different girls.  For his first dance, he was put in a difficult situation but made the right choice and went with the original girl "Olivia" that said she was going to ask him and she did.  Although he was quite upset with how much everything cost even though he didn't buy anything.  I think he had a great time and with a great group of kids!

I had a hard time letting go since as Cody says, "I like to be in control."  And boys go to the girls house to pick up and take pictures so I had to rely on someone else but it all worked out.  Olivia's Mom e-mailed pictures the next day and we even got more off of Facebook.

Since Shelby had a game that night we didn't even see him leave for his first big dance.  Speaking of Shelby, she decided to sit this dance out.  Shelby and Grady came over to the house and had pizza and watched a movie since Grady is still recovering from his surgery (tore his ACL).

I think a fun time was had by all!

Basketball Season Continues

Shelby is nearing the end of her Freshman year of Basketball and it continues to be a great season.  She has made so many improvements within the last year.  One of her best games so far was in Kuna...where she scored 12 points and 7 of them within 2 minutes.  The cameraman (Dave) gets a little busy talking so got a 3 pointer but you can't tell that Shelby was the shooter!  They still have a hard time playing Skyview and have lost to them twice and to Bishop Kelly once.  They will finish up their season playing Mountain Home, Emmett, Bishop Kelly and Nampa!  They have turned into a pretty good team and played beyond expectations!  Then the top 4 teams will go onto Districts.

Go Lady Vikes!

I attempted to upload the video but I don't have the patience for it right now as it is taking forever!

New Years 2010

 

This year after Shelby got finished with Basketball practice we headed up to Garden Valley with The Roseberry Family!  We had very, very cold temps. like -10 degrees on New Years Morning but alot of fun was had by all!  You can see by the clock that making it until midnight was difficult but once the ball fell, we seemed to be able to stay up past 2 o'clock.  Which made for a slow morning on New Years Day...but after Noon we all made it outside for some snow fun!

The Kids enjoy each other so much and since The Hildebrandts were unable to make it, we had Austin come with us!

There were 3 different games going on....The Adults, The Older Teenage Kids and Shelby and Sam!

Shelby and Cody (yes, that is Cody) enjoyed the weekend!

Some snow fun!  Ann and Steve broke out the cross-country skis and Dave even had a lesson!

  

Sledding fun...This video includes Cody, Joe, Austin and Brady!

P.S.  Thanks to Val...for sharing that Piknik is where you make the above cute little pictures (Good thing for Web 2.0 classes :) )  At least I got something done tonight!

New Years Eve Day

          Happy New Years Eve and we hope 2011 brings much happiness to all our family and friends!

Christmas Day 2010

A few family Christmas photos!

What a GREAT idea for our nephew!

We hosted Christmas this year....and I believe a great time and a wonderful Christmas was had by ALL!  Although we missed Dave's Mom and Dad this year (as they are in California), we still had a little snow on the ground from Mondays Snow Storm and it was a beautiful day (a little windy).  We had way to much food and will be eating Ham and Turkey forever and then we will have Ham and Bean soup and Turkey soup!  The kids got everything they asked for for Christmas and more....I just can't believe how old they are getting....Cody is saving for a used motorcycle so "Santa" brought him some cash and Shelby got a Snowboard jacket and shoes!


Now we have a relaxing week ahead of us with not much planned....Shelby has Basketball practice all week...Dave is home all week....hoping to head up the mountain for the New Years Eve (for a couple day).

Merry Christmas and Happy 2011 to ALL!

December 1st "Snow Day"

November 30th it starting snowing and it kept snowing and snowing and the morning of December 1st, I was woke up at about 4:30am with the call from school "SNOW DAY!"  About 7 to 8 inches of snow!!

Unable to go back to sleep, I was able to get some of my shopping "cyper" done and then although I had lots of stuff to do and thought I was going to get a lot done.  I did NOTHING! 

Shelby did have practice in the afternoon and Cody and his friends went out to an empty field and caused some trouble with some snowmobiles, tow ropes, truck bed liners, etc..

Dave caused some trouble too first thing in the morning, as he chained up of a hour of so and left for work....I received a call that he had gotten a ticket....failing to stop at a stop sign even though if he would have stopped (he was the only one on the road....other than the COP) he would have been stuck!!  He is fighting this ticket since it is his first ticket ever so a court date (March 2nd?) has been set!