We like to win

We finished our season last weekend.  Hunter lost out his first game of the tournament, which they played really well (they were third graders in a 4th grade league) and lost by 5 points.  His team improved a lot and I am so proud of how well Hunter played the entire season.  Lexi's team only lost one regular season game the whole year and won first place in their division.  They beat a 6th grade team for 1st place.  She did awesome and plays so aggressively you wouldn't know it was her out there.  It is funny how crazy basketball has gotten in Lynden since I was a youth.  I know a girl who has played in over sixty games as an eighth grader since October and that's not including the Middle school league just her AAU league.  It is some  people's life to play basketball here in our town.  As much as I love basketball we will have to find a happy medium for our family of seven. 

Something, Anything Please!

Some might say that I have an obsessive compulsive personality.  It might be true.  Some friends showed us a fun logo game app.  It has categories where you name what the logo is under different categories such as food or cars, etc.  Or it has a game called streak where it shows you the logo and then gives you four choices.  I liked playing both, but the categories one I felt was one you could actually win when finished, which I like to win :) There are three levels easy, medium, and hard.  After getting so many right it awards you hints.  I have had problems in the past being addicted to games.  This was no different especially since I new you could finish it.  After finishing the first level it said nothing did nothing, which I thought was weird that it didn't even say "congratulations you have finished the easy level".  Wynden teased me about playing it so much, but I knew it would be better as soon as I won it.  I still got other things done don't get me wrong, the kids still got fed, maybe not showered or out of their pajamas....kidding.  Anyway after about three weeks (I didn't play it as much as I have eluded to I am exaggerating a little), I finished it.  There was no confetti, no fireworks, no calls from the president (not that Wynden would have let us answer the phone)...NOTHING.  I wanted a little recognition even a congrats on winning our game that consumed your mind for awhile.  A little disappointed, but I'm over it now and taking a break from any and all games.  Hope you have a happy Monday!

Happy 100th Day of School!

This is our life lately

Lots of basketball.  We are almost done with all the leagues...I wonder what life will be like without it...I'm sure we will find something to fill the time we always do.

Christmas...

Well it seems like forever ago that it was Christmas, but I finally got the pictures to load, so better late than never.  We had a really low key Christmas this year.  Not as many family parties, which is good, it got to be too much in years past.  We tried to cut back with gifts this year...a little bit anyway.  All in all we had a really nice, quiet holiday together as a family, what else can you ask for :)

this will have to do for now...

I've been trying to blog about Christmas all week, but blogger won't let me upload pictures from my computer and since I am not the smartest computer person in the world I have no idea how to fix it and by the time Wynden gets home, who could fix it, I have forgotten all about.  So here is something good about Christmas....drum roll please....Diesel stopped sucking his thumb.  He got an owie from sucking it so much and so hard while he was sleeping that Wynden talked him into a band aid and a couple days with that on and him worrying about making his owie worse he just stopped all together.  I'm sure he will still have to have braces, but at least he isn't doing it anymore.  Now to get Hallie to stop.

Happy Birthday to Karlee

As usual Karlee celebrated her birthday with fun activites all day long...she spent the night at her cousins house the night before and woke up to a house fully decorated with streamers.  She went to her last day of basketball camp and then while her older siblings were at camp she got to go to the jump zone for while.  After all the basketball camps were done, we headed south to Chuck E Cheese and to Golden Corral (a buffet) for dinner.  Hard to believe she is seven now...time flies!