East High Freshman Basketball Update...

Zach's regular season of basketball is over! Now we have the city tournament starting tonight and lasting throughout the week, depending on how many wins they get!! Go Black Raiders!!


Their record ended as 10-5. However, they are ranked in 2nd place! Zach's top scoring game was against West High of Sioux City -- he scored 16 points in that game! He also had a game against Heelan of Sioux City in which he scored 11 points, and two games where he scored 10 points! Other games he only scored anywhere from 2-6 points. He also had one game where he fouled out!!


Once in a great while, the school would call the Sioux City Journal and have the freshman game stats put in the paper... but this is very rare! But they did do it after the Heelan game where Zach scored 11 points, so I have posted that article here on the blog! Here it is:

Happy Valentines Day!

Just wanted to "shout out" to all our friends and family -- Happy Valentines Day!!! Hope your day is filled with love and happiness, from our house to yours!! Love ya!!! XXO

Birthday Party No. 9

Brianna's birthday fell on a Monday this year, and since the weekend before her birthday was Super Bowl weekend, we decided to have her celebrate and have her party on the weekend after. She invited seven friends from school and wanted to go out for pizza and go ice skating! We invited my mom and my sister, Jenny, and her whole family to go along with us! When we got to Pizza Hut we had quite a large group and ended up with about half the restaurant taken up by us!! We enjoyed pizza and cake and opened presents while we were there! By the time the presents were opened, it was time to go to the ice rink for skating.

Of the ten children we had in our group, only one was a good ice skater -- she plays hockey for the Junior Musketeers team here in Sioux City! Four of them had never been ice skating before and the other five have only gone once before. Amazingly, everyone did great and had a fun time! I think it is fair to say that the party was a "hit" with everyone! Parents came to pick up their children at the end of the evening and three kids came home with us to spend the night. Once we got back to our house, the girls changed into pajamas and played with the Nintendo Wii all night long! We shut everything off just after midnight and they fell asleep and slept until almost 9am the next morning! I was starting to think I was going to have to wake them up because their parents were coming to get them at 10am!! Now Brianna's birthday is officially over until next year... I will probably need that long to "recuperate"!! Ha!Ha!

Brianna and Basketball...

Not much to tell here...

Brianna played basketball on a team through our local YMCA. They started playing their first game the first weekend in December and just had their last game last weekend, February 7th. Score is not kept for these games, but Brianna started out okay... she scored a basket in her first game and was quite happy! She was ecstatic when she scored three baskets in her next game!! After having a couple good games, you can imagine she was disappointed when she wasn't able to make a basket in any of the remaining games. Except for the final game... Grandma (my mom) came to Sioux City to celebrate Brianna's birthday and see her last basketball game. I think Brianna wanted to "impress" Grandma, so she really worked a little harder and was able to make two of her shots!!! She was quite happy! It was a nice little birthday present to herself, not to mention a nice way to end the season! I have posted her basketball picture and the team picture below:

Sorry for the Delay...

Yes... I am finally posting on here again! I am sorry for the delay and have even had some of you asking when I am going to write on here again!!! My problem is that I recently discovered a new addiction that seems to take up my "free time" on the computer... yes, FaceBook!! This site is so amazing! I am getting in touch with old classmates and other people from high school and college! I am even staying in touch more with cousins and other relatives! It really is great to log on there and see what my friends and family have been doing since I was last on there! I actually try to get on there every day to see if I am missing anything!! Since I am a "newbie" to the whole FaceBook thing, it was consuming A LOT of my time... I had to look at everyone's photos and read all their information posted on their "wall"!! Now that I am caught up, it should be easier to check and stay informed on everyone lives!! Ha!Ha! And don't worry, I am not giving up the blogging... but you should check out FaceBook, get your own wall on there... you never know who you might get in touch with!! And if you do, let me know so I can add you to my list of "friends" that I want to stay in touch with!!!

Happy 9th Birthday, Brianna!!

Happy 9th Birthday to Brianna! Where have all the years gone??!! I can't believe my baby girl is already nine years old! WHOA!!!

We took her out for supper... she picked Chili's Restaurant. She even got a scoop of ice cream because it was her birthday... this "scoop" was so big we all had to help her eat it!! She also got an angel food confetti cake at home and we gave her a couple games for her Nintendo Wii that she got at Christmas!! She is on Cloud 9 already, and we still have her party coming up this weekend with her little girlfriends!! Happy Birthday, baby girl!!!