Go Warriors!

Friday night was our school's Elementary Basketball Night. Since Josh is in a sports program at school called Little Warriors he chose basketball as his "First Look" sport. This means that he got to spend the game with the Varsity basketball team. He was with them before the game in the team room. He got to give high fives to all the players as they ran out onto the court.
(excuse my horrible pics, time for a new camera)

He got to stand with the team as the National Anthem was sang. Boy Scouts from our school presented the flags, including one sweet boy from my class.

During warm up time the boys all got to sit in the player seats.

After the first quarter, they all got to go up to the Athletic offices, have a snack and watch part of the game from the windows overlooking the basketball court. This pic is of Josh in the window.

At halftime the Jr. Cheer performed. Two girls in my class were preforming and they all were so cute!

Josh had so much fun and keeps saying he wants to go to the next basketball game. It was especially cool because our school is where Mike went to and graduated from. This is the same gym that Mike played varsity basketball in. It is pretty cool to come back and have it be for your kid's events.

Jason had fun in the stands watching the game with us. He wanted to go on the court and play with the players so bad.
At one point the ball was being taken out right in front of us and the ref let Jason hold the ball while the players got situated. That was the coolest thing ever for him.

When I get overwhelmed with teaching full time and being a mommy, it is times like these that make it all worth it. The boys would not be able to attend this amazing school if I wasn't working there. So seeing them experience things like Josh's "First Look" into his favorite sport and on top of it being all Christ centered makes it worth it.

Fun night!

No More Training Wheels

Jason gets to stay home with Daddy a couple days a week. Mike is so great and always does something with Jason. Whether it's going to the park, playing catch in the backyard or just riding bikes. On Thursday, I came home to this...

They had spent the day learning to ride with no training wheels. I was so impressed with Jason. Mike said he only had to hold the back of the bike for a couple tries and then he was off. He did fall a few times (the million pads helped) but Jason has always fallen off his bike, scooter, skateboard on purpose so he thought crashing was fun. In no time he was following his big brother all over our court.



Josh learned to ride his 2 wheeler pretty early too. Jason is 3 and amazes me with how coordinated he is.  Now Mike the boys are excited to both be on 2 wheelers for camping this summer. I bet you can guess what we will be doing all weekend. :)

Still Here, But Not Really

We are all still alive over here, just too busy to blog about it. I just hopped on the computer to input a million grades for progress reports that are due this week and to pay pay bills.... how fun.

I will be back...sometime... with some real posts if I ever get a minute in these crazy days to do so.

PS... I am totally laughing out loud right now. I sound like people are just waiting for me to post something. I don't even know if anyone else reads this blog besides my mom and sister, but at least they know we are still alive over here. :)

Relaxin' with The Bachelor

As I write this post I sit in my pjs, feet up, sippin' hot chocolate and watching The Bachelor. Kids are in bed and hubby is at work. I'm trying to enjoy my last few hours of freedom before we are back to reality tomorrow. It is going to be a busy week at school with Open House being Thursday night. It was so nice to have a 3 day weekend. Grocery shopping and church were the extent of our outings this weekend. It was great. We just enjoyed the beautiful weather playing outside, watched football and relaxed. My favorite kind of weekend. I even got to take a nap today before Mike went to work. I woke up with a pounding headache that wouldn't go away. The nap helped. If only this cold I have had FOREVER would go away I'd be great.

 Look at this cutie who is all registered for 1st grade! I can't believe it.

Josh was pretty excited when the 49ers won. He and Jason love watching sports. They are like little men and get so into it. We will be routing for the 49ers next weekend!

Back to the crazy girls on The Bachelor and off to hit the hay.

  

 

Our Mountain Getaway

We spent 4 days last week in Dorrington and stayed in this beautiful cabin. 

 

Do you notice something missing? We are in the mountains in January and there is no snow! Last year when we went we were able to walk right outside the cabin, play in the snow and even sled. We still made the most of our stay despite the weird winter weather and had a great time together. Family time is always awesome!

We spent a day at Bear Valley Ski Resort. They made snow there and had a few runs open. It was almost comical driving to the ski resort. It was a gorgeous day, blue skies, hot outside, no snow anywhere to be seen and here we are getting ready to go skiing. You walk through the parking lot to the other side of the resort and BAM... snow. Gotta love man made snow! 

Check Josh and Jason's first time skiing HERE.

We spent another day exploring areas we had never been to. Areas that are closed in the winter due to snow. We hiked around the Stanislaus River and even went panning for gold and did a little 4 wheeling. The boys love the outdoors. Daddy taught them so much as we explored. It was a ton of fun!

 

We scoped out some campgrounds to come back to this summer and enjoyed lunch at one of the day use areas. It was such a gorgeous day and totally felt like June instead of January. 

After our fun filled days we spent our evenings cooking dinners together, playing games (lots of monopoly) and watching movies. I especially enjoyed relaxing here every night. I could have just sat in this bathtub the whole trip and been happy.

Josh and Jason are at such fun ages. It is great to be able to go on trips like this together and have such fun adventures and make so many memories. Can't wait for the next one!

The Boys 1st Ski Trip

This week has been pretty awesome. We went skiing and had SO MUCH fun! Josh and Jason are amazing. These two never cease to amaze me with how quick they pick up any physical, sport related activity and skiing was no different.  I'll share more in another post of all our fun we are having this week, but Mike made this video last night and it is too cool not to share.

*For some reason it won't load so click on the link below to watch.*

Ski Video

Happy New Year

2012?! It's crazy!

Our week was so nice. It was filled with lots of playing with new toys, relaxing, pizza and bowling with good friends, shopping, me finally going to Kaiser for this stupid cold I've had for about 3 weeks to get meds, more relaxing, I got to go out to dinner one night with my good friend Rachel and lots more playing!

We tried to get Sharks tickets for the four of us to go to a game. The game was pretty much sold out and for all of us to go was going to be $1200. That's a little nuts. Instead, we let the boys stay up late, we all put on our sharks shirts (well except Jason who wouldn't part with his Mario shirt for Sharks), ate ice cream and watched the game cheering for the Sharks. The boys only lasted until about 9pm, but we dvr'd it and they finished the game when they woke up the next morning. Sharks lost in OT. Glad we didn't pay $1200 to see them lose (not that we would have paid that much to see the game).

New Years Eve was low key, yet fun! We went to Red Robin for dinner, I got to sneak in a trip to DSW shoes and we came home to celebrate with the boys. We played games, wore silly hats, blew annoying horns(that secretly made their way to the trash can after bedtime), popped poppers and lit some left over sparklers. We were so surprised they actually stayed up until about 10:30 pm. Then Mike and I were super exciting and sat on the couch and watched Dick Clark's Rockin New Year's Eve trying to figure out what in the world Lady Gaga was doing.

Now we still have another week of bliss with being off from school. If only this weather would cooperate. We may be going water skiiing instead of snow skiing...

Happy New Year!!!