Showing posts with label basketball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label basketball. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Beginning of March 2026

Isaac and I are signed up for the Goldy Run 10K in April, Kyle is doing the 10 mile. So Isaac and I have ran together a couple times. 



Taking him on this run, down to the sculpture garden. It's one of my favorites when not going around the lakes. Get some hills in and it's a perfect 5K distance 1.5 miles there. 


Last weeks of volleyball. 


Kids were out of school for March 3rd. Winter is nearing an end (but still here) so we utilized our free rental passes to hit the slopes at Hyland hills. 

(Emma not happy about her helmet fit)


After I gave her the hair tie from my head she was better. 


Took a fall and knocked the wind out of himself... and he wanted to stay another couple hours - but had a basketball game later that evening. he learned the hard way how a day of skiing can effect your energy and playing performance. 


We went out to eat Wednesday evening but was running short on time to get the girls to their activities. So I left driving Emma to gymnastics while Kyle and Thomas walked home - taking a shortcut across the lake. 


Mary's last volleyball practice was a fun family vs. players volleyball game. Isaac came, family team won and it was a lot of fun. 

 

The boys won Tuesday night, which meant they had two games on Friday for championship. They won the first and lost the second putting them in 2nd place for the season. They did great! We celebrated with DQ afterwards. 



Mary's volleyball season was wrapped up with 10 hours at the courts on Saturday. 


Isaac and I on another run, with in a mile he was running ahead, longer legs = faster runner. 


Dinner at Yum! with a beautiful rainbow on our way out. This jumper.... The girls ordered some clothes off amazon for our trip, Emma wanted this jumper. After one wash it SHRUNK considerably. Was able to return it and order another.... THEN she got a stain on it in Mexico so I washed it in the hotel room. It was still wet as we were packing up Sunday morning, I asked her to hang it outside to try and dry a bit more before we put it in the suitcase... well Monday night as I was looking for it to continue to work on the stain we realized we never grabbed it from the balcony. OOPS. Thankfully it was only $12 and we ordered another. HA! 




Now that volleyball is over Mary is skating twice a week. It was fun to finally stay and watch her practice. Before this I was running other kids around in this time. (she had a yellow tie around her waist. This means she is the one doing the song at practice. Whoever has the song playing and practicing their routine wears the ribbon so others know to give her the right away. She started private lessons at the beginning of the year)



Mary got a shamrock shake recipe at school so decided to make it for everyone. 


Super bummer news to start our spring break!!!! Sunday's flight got moved to Wednesday. 


Saturday Emma had a fun time bowling with her soccer team. 


And the storm did actually come, 18" of snow. 


Well since we were home... Monday took the girls to open skating. 




Next up, our spring break trip. 
 

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

February 2026

Amazing full moon to start off the month. 




Isaac had a bridging concert in band, the 8th grade and 9th grade played together. First time playing at the high school auditorium. 



Someone enjoyed the show :-P 


Emma got a haircut, professionally...not just mom trimming it after a shower. 



Thomas is enjoying basketball on Saturdays


Oh and here's a picture of his current set of spacer retainers. I turn the top every Monday night and the bottom every five days. 


The annual luminary loppet (pronounced: low-pet) took place Saturday evening of February 7th. 







Fire dancers:














Mary is doing LOTS of volleyball every weekend. I usually just get videos of her serving, but here are some photos! 



Kyle's dad passed away on February 15th. We drove down to Missouri that week for his funeral. We knew it was getting close, he wasn't doing well in the end. This photo was from February 11th. 


Shopping with the girls to get something to wear




We headed down on a Tuesday 


I didn't get a photo of all of us, but I did get the kids. They did great at the visitation and the graveside funeral was very meaningful with the veteran send off, taps, and gun salute. 

  


 

 

Grandpa Del's parents site:


We made it home that Friday in time for Isaac's 7:30pm basketball game. Saturday right into soccer practice, volleyball, and Thomas's basketball. 

The next week Oakley had his annual check up, all is good. He loves running off leash on the lake. 


And another band concert for Isaac. This time it was the 8th grader playing with the 5th graders. 


Mary is doing lots of ice skating. And we are preparing for an office remodel. Got rid of these book shelves to make way for a new set of builtins on the adjacent wall. 


Mary had her first ice skating competition, she was in a partner jump-spin event. She did a bunny hop and her partner did a two foot spin. 


Another weekend full of sports. 

And a Lunar New Year Celebration for Mary's Chinese class. She sang a group song. 


That's it for February! 

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