Upward Basketball 2010

Today was the first Saturday of basketball

season! Fun, fun! The boys have been

practicing for a few weeks and very excited

for the first game. Dad is coaching Josh's team.

Both boys have friends from church on their

teams and Alex even has a friend doing

cheerleading this year! Great times:)

Here is the half-time meeting for the Warriors.
They were pretty tired but they had a great game!

Coach Mike was giving some pointers.

Josh and friends!

The boys get a snack after the game to revive

themselves! They also receive stars to

encourage them to keep developing

their skills and sportsmanship.

There is even a star for Christ-likeness!

This is Alex's fifth year playing. His team name

is the Cavaliers. He's wearing the "home" team color

and Josh had on the "away" team color.

(Great reversible uniforms!)

Christmas 2009

Christmas took a long time to come,

according to the boys anyway!

As soon as Daddy got home on Christmas Eve

Alex and Josh were able to open the

gifts that they had gotten for each other.

Excitement was running very high....

Soon after we headed to church for our

Candlelight Christmas Eve Service!

After the service we enjoyed food and fellowship

with many at our friend's home. We

had a wonderful time!

We played a game called Hummmble.

Each team had one player hum a tune and

the others on the team had to guess.

We played guys against the gals and the

gals were victorious!

The ladies got lots of laughs listening to
the guys trying to hum!

Lovely gals-are they all sisters?!

What a good friend I have!!!

Christmas morning we dragged out of bed around

7:30 am! As is our tradition, we read the

Christmas story and acted it out with the

Playmobile nativity scene that we have.

(Dad was sporting his reading glasses and

Mom hadn't put in her contacts yet.)

Alex was excited to get basketball shoes!

A big thank-you to Grandpa for the Bionicles!

Thanks Don and Judy for the t-shirts and

Wikki sticks!

Josh was excited about his new reading

material! Thanks Uncle Matt, Aunt Mindy

and Jay!!!

Go TEXAS! The boys love having new sweatshirts

from their cousins in TX! Thanks, thanks, thanks!

The day after Christmas we enjoyed dinner and

playing a new game with Pop-pop and Nana!

Snow came a few days after Christmas but

was stilled enjoyed it!

The boys always love to play football in the front yard.

(For some reason they think it is even better

in the snow!)

Josh had trouble keeping his boot on.

We LOVE snow!

Dec 30th we celebrated our 15th anniversary!

I was spoiled as usual by my husband with

flowers, jewelry and my favorite snack foods!

We went out for dinner and a movie while the

boys spent some great time with

Pop-pop and Nana.