League Champs

One of Owens basketball teams won the league.  They went undefeated for the fall session.  Great job Grizzlies!

Thanksgiving....a few days early

We had Thanksgiving this evening.  I'm glad we got together, it's always fun and we got our Thanksgiving meal.  Since we are going to Vegas for football we are going miss Thanksgiving on Thursday, so we just enjoyed each other and Turkey a few days early this year.   

After having Thanksgiving, we came back home and had a little Christmas as well.  Owen's team had a big game tonight he had to watch, so we didn't get a Christmas movie in, but we still had a treat.  Melted snowman cookies.  I wish we had snow to make a snowman for real.  I'm ready to play in the snow!

He's Back!

Ichabod came to spend the holidays with us again.  I wonder if he will follow us to Las Vegas this week for the football tournament???? 

Another Holiday movie night

Yesterday it snowed and we wanted it to stick around long enough to play in, but by the time basketball was done the snow was gone.  So for our Christmas movie night treat tonight we made snowmen.  They were yummy to eat while we watched Elf.....love that movie!

Girls night

I'm so grateful to my little buddy Ally.  On a Friday night my house isn't quite empty yet.

Swingin'



You can't tell much from these pictures, but all my kids loved to be pushed in the swing.  I spent many afternoons out back pushing a little one in the swing. 

Movie and a treat

We may have just been playing in the leaves having fall fun earlier today, but we decided it was a good night to start our Christmas movie and treat night.  So it was fall, and Christmas in the same day.  That is just how fast time goes by also and  you have to change modes, done with one holiday and on to the next.  I can't believe how Christmas is here again already.  But the holidays are here and we started our movie/ treat night with Jingle All the Way and a big bowl of caramel popcorn. 

Finishing up Fall

It has been very warm and sunny this weekend.  All I've wanted to do was go out back and rake up the leaves and play with the kids, but basketball, homework, and hanging with friends kept getting in the way.  Today after church I told the kids it was our afternoon to just hang out together.  As I was raking up the leaves, I asked the kids to move the trampoline over to my pile, because I knew they would want to jump off the trampoline into the leaves.  They thought they were pretty clever with their plan and I was ok with their plan because it involved all 3 working together. 

 They weren't too excited about me stopping them for pictures.  But look how genuine they look, even though they were mad at me. 

 Once the jumping got boring, the 4 wheeler came back out and the pile of leaves was used for a jump. 

Moms vs Kids

I posted earlier that football season was done, but Davis's team is going to Las Vegas over Thanksgiving to play in a tournament so they are still practicing for that.  Tonight his coach had a fun idea for the boys though.  Some of the moms showed up to practice for a game of flag football against our boys.  We had a great time, it was so fun.  The boys won, but hey they have been playing for 4 months.  I was elected as center, and I guess I did ok I only snapped it over the quarterbacks head once, but I will leave that job to Davis he is SO much better at it.  Davis is a classy player, but when he plays against his own mom the gloves come off and he is a dirty little player.  I so would have scored if he hadn't tripped me.  Payback, we will get our revenge. 

 Sneaky boys, Davis doesn't run the ball during the season, so of course we were not expecting him to score on their first possession.  Well played boys, well played.  And D Stew nice touchdown! 

 Some of the moms and the boys

Pilgrim Lunch

Gator is my last student to go through Kanesville Elementary.  So today was my last time going to the kindergarteners Pilgrim lunch.  The kids made their cute hats and learned a couple of Thanksgiving songs, then they sang for the parents and we ate school lunch.  The costumes were the same and the songs were the same, but oh man school lunch has gone down hill. Before the bus came this morning, I went through my pictures and found the ones from Owen and Davis, Gator loved looking at these pictures.  

 November 2005-Owen

November 2008-Davis