Life is Random....in Pictures

I LOVE technology! I know I'm not alone, but one of my favorite advances in technology is the camera phone. I take pictures of things I want, things I want to make, design, give as a gift....good and bad design to show in class, the kids with smiles and tears, and my license plate, because I can never commit it to memory!

I decided to clean some of the images off my phone (not the license plate) to make room for new. Here's a little of what I found.....totally random.

Need to buy for the weed eater

PSU Schedule

Wish I had bought on Black Friday...there's always my birthday (hint, hint)

Mason's Birthday morning

Kid's TRYathlon on Mason's birthday

Intersection of 4th & Locust

Dash at the Vet

Date night dinner

Tennis Camp

Snow cone #85 at the ballgame

Winning the JL Hutch Championship game

Blake's birthday dinner

Making Daddy's cake

British Soccer Camp

On the road...headed to New Orleans

Where we parked to have dinner in New Orleans...in case our car wasn't there when we got back

White River

Harp's in Bull Shoals

Modeling the Dentist's special glasses

Rainy weekend

Christmas List

Making some cash at the Kid's Yard Sale

Christmas order from Tiffany

Braden's illustrated note card set

I want to make

Painted a lamp from my grandmother

Found this tray at the Recycling Thrift store

Want to make

2012 Teacher gifts

Swatch I bought in NYC

Subway in NYC

Clever advertising NYC

Conference slide from NYC

Walked by this in NYC

Traveling in Basketball

 Instead of playing with the YMCA League, Braden has been invited to play on a traveling basketball team. In short, this means we will not have weekly games, but twice a week practices, and weekend tournaments. Braden has been very lucky in his sports career, having had the best coaches ever. Number one being his Dad. He hasn't realized yet, how lucky he has been to have his very patient father to teach him the fundamentals and instill a excellent sportsmanship in him.

Braden is #15

In addition to the other Dad Coaches, he is still training under our last football coach, Aaron McConnell, who played professionally. For this traveling basketball team, he is being coached by our high school boy's basketball coach, Kylie Roelfs, who also happens to have a son Braden's age.

This tournament was about 30 minutes away, played Round Robin style, and the kids played three games, the last two back to back. We didn't win, but you could see significant improvement between the first game and the third. I think it's going to be a great season of basketball!

Mason is playing for the Lakers!

This has been a year of many firsts for Mason, especially in sports. He has been beside himself with excitement to play his first basketball game. He got his wish when his team, The Lakers, played today at 9 a.m. His favorite was defense. The game was going on around him but he was totally focused on the person he was guarding, as ferociously as a tiger. I think he may have even growled a few times.

 As soon as Mason's game was over, we headed to Galena, KS, for Braden's first basketball traveling tournament. We are forever grateful for our "Pittsburg Grandma" Suzie, who asked to spend the day with Mason, while Blake and I went to Braden's games.