1st WIN!!

Hip Hip Hooray....Nico's team finally one a game today!! After a very LONG season of losses and rain-outs they finally won one!! It also helped that the other team only had 6 players show up and we had to play outfield for them! :) 

We are thinking the win is one of three things or a culmination of all:

1. We played at a different ball park
2. Our friend's the Catons came for the 1st time (thanks for coming!)
3. The fact that they only had 6 players

Regardless, we will take the W!!! He has two games left and hopefully we can pull off a couple more wins!

Obessed

Friday Night was supposed to be the start of Nico's baseball tournament but because of all the rain that we got that morning the fields were to wet to start. This allowed us Don & Tony to be able to do more work on the bathroom...which I can't wait to be able to share it with you because it is looking fab-u-lous! 

The evening turned out to be beautiful so the kids were able to get some great play time outside with their friend Sophie and I was able to catch up with Aimee. After chatting we decided to head to the movies and check out Obsessed. Will it be a big award winning flick? Not so much, it was too predictable and too much like Fatal Attraction (which is far better). Am I glad I went to see it? Sure, it was a entertaining and the lead male, Idris Elba, is HOT!!!! Not to mention I was able to spend some time with my friend!

Nico's Last Game

Here are a couple of photos of Nico in his last basketball game. I don't really have many action shots as I need to figure out which setting on my camera is best to use...mine came out blurry. Basketball is Nico's favorite sport...he says "basketball is my life" and is sad that it's over (mom is kind of glad it's over because all of his games where at 8 or 9AM...too early for a Saturday morning). 

Now it's time to gear up for Baseball Season...PLAY BALL!!!!

Crazy Busy Weekend

This past weekend was FILLED, FILLED, FILLED with lots of exciting and draining events for us. Here is a taste of what our weekend was like:

Thursday:

• 11 Am - Pick up dad from airport 
• noon - Pick Bella up from school 
• 12:15-12:45 PM- Grad lunch & shove it down throat
• 1 PM - Pick the older ones up (early out & no school on Friday because of conferences)
• Come home and work on auction stuff
• 3:30 - 9 PM - Don at work (football practice, laundry & whatever else they take care of post practice)
• 4-5 PM - go to the older 3's parent-teacher conferences (BTW they were, for the most part, good)
• 5:30 -  Dinner @ Ruby Tuesdays with Dad, the kids, my sister & her new beau and then all back to my house
• After dinner and chillin' for awhile at home worked on auction
• Went to bed!

Friday:

• 8:30AM - back up and gone for the whole day working on the auction
• 9:00AM - Picking up stuff at CCS for the auction
• 9:45AM  - dropped Bail off at Humane Society to work their Open House for the final zootoo push (which we ended #1 in the 1st phase...YAY!)...she worked until 8PM!
• 10 AM - 10PM - was at the fairgrounds setting up for the auction
• 10:00 PM - came home and chatted with dad and then went to bed and watched the end of the Mizzou game
• 11PM - CRASHED

Saturday:

• 6AM - 3PM - Don at football
• 7AM - wake up and head to Nico's final Basketball game
• 8-9AM - Nico's Game
• 9:30 - Pick up the girls and head out again
• 10-11:30AM - Bail & Grandpa are on campus for Bail's history day project (get results and tips on how to better their project for state)
• 10:30-noon Nico has 1st Baseball practice @ CCS
• Work on power point intermittently throughout morning and early afternoon
• 3PM - I'm all clean, dressed & ready to go. Head out to fairgrounds to drop off my stuff for the event, and Bail as she is helping a friend babysit for the evening
• 3:30Pm - head to Gymnastics Meet
• Meet from 4-6PM (Don & I only get to stay until 5 because we need to get back to get ready for the auction)
• Auction from 6:30 - 12:30AM
• Home & CRASH

Sunday:

• 9:30 - noon -Back to the fairgrounds for clean-up
• Rest of the day - I DO NOTHING & TAKE A NAP!!!
• 6:30PM - Don & Ang made an awesome Italian Dinner for us

Monday:

• Back to the normal rat race and Dad headed back home

Are you tired yet?? This is the reason that this was my last year co-chairing the Auction. I have been involved with it for 8 years and it's time for some new blood to have fun with it!

(Mostly) Wordless Wednesday

This is Nico sending off the Valentine's gift, that he bought with his own money (he even paid for shipping), for his "girlfriend" Sarah in Indy. So sweet isn't it and it was all his idea!