Basketball and sunshine

Cameron's freshman team played in Wellsville this week.  I ran down to watch their game. Cameron had a good game! 

It was made even better by them getting a win!   The little grin on Cameron's face made my day!   His team hasn't won a game for a couple of years.  It was nice to see them come out on top! 

The Canadians finally took their air back, leaving us with some sunshine and a few moments outside!  I don't care what anyone says about liking the cold.... nothing feels better than a warmish day after a couple weeks of extreme cold!   And to those of you who say 'I can always put on more clothes and warm up' I call bull!

The girls and the goats agree with me wholeheartedly! 

We did finally sell Colin's goat who didn't make weight at the county fair.  I expected that the people who were buying him would do so to put him in a freezer.  After talking to them I think he may have a pasture clearing/pet goat gig in his future.  I am happy about that as he really was a sweetheart! 

What a weekend!

It has been one of those no relaxation type of weekends!  It started with Cameron having a basketball game at Central Heights.   Jim went down to watch him but neglected to take pictures.   It was not a very good game for the freshman team I was told.  

Saturday morning, Quincy started her basketball season.  She is #5 on the purple team.   She was a little sad that none of her best buddies were on her team, but she seemed to have fun anyhow!  

After her game, it was off to the races for me as I took Cameron to his practice and Preston to practice.  

While I was on chauffeur duty, Jim and Jodi (Colin's girlfriend) went to Rossville to watch Colin wrestle.  Colin had an awesome day on the mats and took 2nd place in the 138 pound bracket.  His team took 1st place overall of the 16 teams that were there.   Jim did take a couple of photos, but Jodi actually shared hers with me!   Jim and I were really proud of Colin!  He really does work hard, and makes the sacrifices needed to be on this team.  

And as long as I am bragging about the kids (cause that's what I do best) Cameron has joined the school jazz band.   They are fabulous!   Seriously I love listening to them play!   Last night, they had a paid gig.  The rotary club paid them to provide entertainment for a retirement celebration of our grocer who is retiring after having the grocery store in town in his family for 83 years!  The store was sold to the same person who owns the Carbondale store so we will still have a grocery store for me to spend all our money at!  Anyhow, I am proud of Cameron for taking on the jazz band commitment. They practice 3 days a week very early in the mornings!  He is back on trombone for jazz and still playing tuba in marching, pep and concert band. I do not know how much money they got paid but I was told it goes into his account for the next big band trip!   Bonus!  

Colin has really been enjoying his culinary class at school and today he tried his hand at making cinnamon rolls after church.  They turned out really good!  

With the Jazz band early morning commitment, we have made a supreme effort to get Cameron some practice driving time so he can try once again to pass his driving test.   I hope he passes this time!  He took us to Topeka tonight as we went to Preston's first game. Preston is playing at Sportzone on a team with some of his friends.  His team lost by 1 point tonight but they seemed to have fun so that was good!  

After the game we did our grocery shopping. I hope we got everything because I really, really don't want to go back!  It's gonna be one of those Mondays where you gladly go to work so you can sit down for a while!  

Photo dump

My phone started doing all sorts of odd things.   I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with tech support and finally we decided that a new phone was inevitable.  Truthfully, I was not excited because I feel like I am still getting used to this one!  But technology marches forward and so must I!  

The new phone came this morning and I know better than to set it up without the big kids being home!   I decided I better get the rest of the photos I want to keep off of it "just in case".   I am amused at the weird photos I have on here, especially this one of Mallory and Johnny which I did not take!!  My life is weird....that is what the title of the post should be!  

Grandma made all of the kids fleece blankets.  She found fleece in either the colors The kids like or something they liked.  She had no trouble finding most of the fleece, but chicken fleece for Quincy and Redskins fleece for Cameron were a bit elusive.  She got it done, but these 2 had to wait a bit longer.  I think from the smiles on their faces, it was worth the wait!

Just a few awesome shots

 The same dad that took the great football photos took some really great shots at the wrestling meet on Tuesday.  I love these photos.  He is so very talented!

A little post Christmas rastlin action.

Colin had a double dual tonight in Council Grove.  It was a fun night of wrestling.  Colin went 1-1 for the night.  

He won his first match with a pin.  

He seemed to dominate the kid in the second match, but ended up losing by 1 point in the final round.  

I had a great time watching the team and visiting with my wrestling mom friends!  So glad I got to go!  

School has already been called off for tomorrow due to excessively cold wind chills.  I am super happy to be home where it is warm!  

I can't believe it's over!

I loved having the kids home.  We enjoyed several days of low key reading, watching a few movies and basically just being together.  The 2 weeks went by entirely too fast for me!  

Now it's back to the insanity.  I just tried to organize my schedule and January and February both look like I will need a lot of gas money!