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Monday, January 30th, 2012. Amy and I are putting
the yearbook together for Ben's school. I have spent a minimum of 2 hours
a day for the past three weeks. That is 7 days a week and a minimum of 2
hours a day. And that
explains the gulf in recent blog updates. Add into that the fact
that I am coaching Ben's basketball team and that Jackson is playing for two
different teams, sometimes either practicing or playing 6 days a week, and I
have had zero free time. But I wanted to at least make one more quick
update before the month ended. Ben's team has been competitive in all but
one of our games and ended the season with a 2-5 record, which puts us 6th out
of 8 teams. The tournament starts this Saturday. Ben has a great
season, but takes the losses very hard. He is a really good point guard
and has scored a lot. We have actually, I think, done a really good job
distributing the ball on the team, which is pretty difficult at this age and
have had 4 different leading scores this season.
Jackson continues to enjoy playing for the Patrick Prowl. It is a great
group of boys and he enjoys the weekend tournaments a lot. They won two
games and lost one last weekend in Stuart, VA. Two weeks ago they made it
to the championship round in the Silver bracket, but lost to the Surry Thunder
for the second time this season. I have never been able to take photos in
a basketball gym, but my sister can, so I am posting lots of photos on the boy's
basketball pages. Click here for Ben's and
here for Jackson's. I
also included a couple of Nolan photos in today's post to show how much that
little cutie has grown.
Sunday,
January 15th, 2012. Second win in a row improves our record to 2-3 in Court
Kids Basketball. It was a good game against our friend Abby's team.
All the boys played really well. Ben scored 9. He scored 12 in
last week's win against our friend Josh's team. I've got my fingers
crossed that the kids can make it three in a row with another win next weekend.
After winning two in a row, Jackson's team had a tough outing and fell to 2-3
for the season. They play again this Friday night against Jackson's buddy
Simon's team.
After yesterday's games, Amy and Ben went to Wytheville for our friend Colin's
birthday party. It was at the Wytheville recreation center that includes a
giant indoor climbing wall, water slides, pool and more. They had a super
time and went to Colin's grandfather's house when the party was over.
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