A long but AWESOME basketball day

Such a long but great day of basketball. We started with bball pics for Garrett in North Bend, then his game at CVES, followed by a double header in Federal Way for Nathan. Pictures were insane as usual but considering how many kids they have to handle it was pretty organized chaos. Garrett's game was a blast. He's starting to pick it up. He was good at getting open under the basket and yelling "I'm open" or "Pass it". So cute! He struggles a bit staying on his guy though on defense. Getting better each game.



Nathan wasn't feeling so hot today but played GREAT in both games this afternoon. As I've mentioned before the boys stepped up about two levels to play in the AAU division this year. Each game is really, really tough. We have not only not won a game so far this season but we've been beat in the double digits every time. These boys still play like it's the championship game. They never get down and play hard every second. Every parent on our side of the bleachers is so proud. Nathan had his "intense" game on today. He was scrappin and fouling and running like crazy. He was on the floor a few times and had some great rebounds. He was at the line once and dropped both shots in. So pretty. I'm so crazy proud of all our boys.

Here are the pictures I promised yesterday from Garrett's Star Student of the Week celebration. Too cute!




We have NOTHING on our schedule for tomorrow. I'm hoping I can stay in my pajamas ALL DAY! I'm pretty sure Quinn will since he's up at Finaughty's tonight with the guys! He'll be hurtin in the morning. :)

Star Student of the Week

I spent the morning at Garrett's school today because he was Star Student of the Week. We had so much fun. Last weekend we made an All About Me poster that hung in his classroom all week. Then this morning Garrett got to bring in his favorite snack (fruit kabobs), his favorite toy (his electric guitar) and his favorite book for Mom to read to the class (Once Upon a Spongebob). After the story and fruit kabobs, Garrett played his guitar for the class while they did freeze dance. SOOOO cute. I'll post the pictures tomorrow. We have three more basketball games tomorrow so I'll have yet more bball pics as well. We rented City of Ember for our movie party tonight and I highly recommend it. We all loved it.

It was a busy week, a busy day and a late night. Off to bed!

Slacker....

It's funny...I've been meaning to post for over a week but every time I sit down at the computer I think about something that's coming up in the next day or so and that I could have new pictures to post. So then I end up putting it off. Oh well! I'm so glad our lives are finally back to near normal now that the snow is gone and the rain has stopped. This was the kids' first full week back at school since before Christmas break. Now that we're back on track...time to catch up.

We celebrated New Years Eve with a group of good friends here in the neighborhood. The party was hosted by the Fowlers. So much fun! Great food and LOTS to drink. Shots of JD on the deck for Quinn, and shots of amazing espresso for me. Ken mixes a mean doppio espresso (he bought his wife Erin a very cool new machine for Christmas). I'm secretly hoping ours breaks now so I can get one. The gallon of JD the boys shared on the deck was a bit much for some of them! Pretty funny. The best part of the night was definitely the Karaoke machine. I have a killer video of our friend Armand doing a niiiiice version of GNR Sweet Child of Mine. So awesome. I've promised not to post it anywhere online! :)


On New Years Day we finally had our Grigg Christmas Eve celebration. Unfortunately we were minus the Southend Griggs (we missed you!). Good food, plenty of beer, wine (and of course COFFEE) and lots of football. We also had a blast playing Rock Band II - even Stuart! When my cousin Aleesha was younger we used to get together on New Years to celebrate her birthday (she's New Years baby) and watch the bowl games. Remember when the major bowl games were all on NY's day? I miss that! But we haven't celebrated that way in a while. Aleesh is 29 now - so it's been a long while. I didn't realize how much I missed it.

The Rebels had another game last weekend. They get better every game. It's been tough though because we keep losing boys to injuries. We've had a knee injury, broken wrist and stitches.

Garrett had his first basketball practice last Monday; and has his first game tomorrow. He's so excited.

Nathan started Cub Chronicle this week. He is a reporter for the Cascade View Elementary School newspaper. His job for this edition is to write a book review. He chose the book Kal and the Amazing Anti-Gravity Machine. I love how excited he is about this. So cool.