saturday's trials

Whew! We made it through the weekend! What a tornado of one too. Friday Night.. pulled washer apart since wasn't working.....picked up Kayla from guard practice...picked Grtechen from dance practice...still working on washer.. Went to bed. Saturday..woke up Kayla to get to guard practice for big competition that evening...organized self for church ball game..went to it...WE WON!!!! 29-17 Stephanie and Gretchen made 6-7 pts each...their neighbor friend made 13 pts.. and others contributed as well! We freaked out their 3 pt shooters!!! It was awesome.
So our YW team is 3-1 and will be 4-1 before tournament. Onward we go!!!! Rushed off to G's dance competition in Fort Worth... she had four dances to do and the team did well with 3 ELITE FIRST PLACE'S and one first place. Special honors from MTV for their Hip hop performance. It was a theatrical one at that! While we were doing that Mike was helping the guard team with their floor, Kayla and her team were preparing for their competiton in Arlington... they were hoping for top honors and move up on the class list....with a 74.6 score...THEY DID IT! FIRST PLACE AND MOVED THEM UP TO TOP PLACEMENT. So...now they need to kick some butty!! So they say.... Oh and the Jack's helped me put washer together so Mike d/n have to do it. Ahhh Sunday has arrived.

Tournament for Middle School basketball

Another exhilarting tournament...Gretchen's team won Thursday's game and played for third place on Friday. First they played Dawson the huge talented team was all over our team like crazy. gretchen got squished by "helgga"...what a brut she was Gretchen bounced off of her and lost the ball only to recover it and throw to one of her team players that missed the shot. "Helga" smiled wickedly at "G". They beat our team by 16 points...eh we knew it would be bad. After waiting for awhile we then suited up for playing our rival ,Keller Middle.... What another fast-paced game...we ran them hard!!! Lots of talent between both teams...a lot of our girls knew friends on the other team...no friends on the court!!! We played hard and harder and finished with a win...I think by 6 points. It was great ...no baskets for "G" but lots of assists and steals.
Wahoo....

Church Ball!!

We will ..we will .....rock you!!!!! Our team did it!!! We beat the Tongan team by 4 points all thanks to loads of hard team work and a couple of extra friends that play well. It was everything you would want to pay for in a game if you had to pay.... intensity, fast-pace (i know, not a word...), thrill...big scores... running like crazy to keep other team in daze..lots of fouls on both teams.... referees calling "bogus" fouls to slow game and attitudes down... Whew!!! It really rocked. Stephanie got 3 fouls in 10 minutes...whoa girl pace yourself. She smiled. Then she got smooshed and had to come out to regain composure. There was sweat flying...girls running fast ...it was so great. And yes...it was sweet that we won...but even if we lost by 1 point, it was truly an awesome game to be in...and at. The other amazing thing was that the moms and dads of the tongans girls were in the hallway waiting for sons to play and they said that was really a fun game. Gotta lovechurch ball. Yes????? We will see what happens next week.

She got a job!!!

Can I hear a whoop-whoop?!!!! Guess who got a job...Stephanie!!! Yea...wahoo....
Found the post on craigslist ...told her about it...she dived at the opportunity...AND nailed it with enthusiasm galore. She is now orienting to work for Marco's Pizza!!!! She loves that pizza!!! The love feast started in Ohio at grandparents house..then con'td to Indiana...now....here. And the best is...the drive is 4 minutes from our house! Lets see how this all pans out now that stomp practice is going on...oh this year she is banging trash can lids!!! Concert practice is also going on...but it will work out. That is all for now.

Middle School basketball

Today is my venting day....I am calm. If you talked to me yesterday (evening) I was an irritable parent of team. Here goes...the last game of season..we played rival Keller Middle School. Tall girls with some muscles on them. Ohhhh. We scored first (yeah)...our team still did not get any plays for the entire season...what they was on talent alone. I am amazed at the talent and the "stupid nous" (not a word) of coach. Anyway, the score of game was tight...thank goodness. But they were always ahead. Gretchen got in there a few times and got fouled so she scored some points... a really nice shot decided not to happen. She elbowed a player sneakily ( not word) and stole the ball...the other team couldn't figure the little one out. But we still played hard and ran out of steam...of course without plays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We lost by 6 points. Not bad but it could cost us out tournament position next week. Duh coach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Soooooooo I am ready for Keller basketball to be done. I do love the game.......but we need a coach that gives plays to team just like the other schools have had. There I am done. Do I feel better....check back. Onward we go to dance team compettion and softball season!!!!!!!! LOL-big time.