Class on class basketball tourney

I was asked to take pictures tonight since the normal photographer couldn't be present so here's a few shots from the evening. The Junior/Senior championship game will be next Saturday night.

Sophomores and seniors on center court


Leah dribbling away


Coach Terry sporting a little Disney reffing paraphernalia

Coach Knight hands off the ball to Gerardo


Shelby's face is great in this one...



The freshmen (and a few 8th graders) played the juniors next.

Chaplain Kase coaches the freshmen

Jaclyn's favorite camping moments (belated)

I got to see all of the pictures from the camping weekend this week and decided to pick out a few of my favorites!

Our new tent

A few more cute Toby pictures...

Blinded by the late afternoon sun











Ryan H. won hunt #2 despite my efforts to thwart his progress.






Never before seen footage - thanks to Mary Jane!

Baby birdies

I noticed that these guys had arrived by the pile of droppings right by our garage door - I don't know how they got so big so fast! I think the mother bird is an eastern phoebe from the little I've seen her but these babies don't look like what I expected. I think she is the same bird we kicked out of the garage when she was sneaking into the cat door and building a nest on our tarp! They are awfully quiet - their mother must have taught them to be scared of big ugly people and little dogs.

Ryan's new toy - the Troy-built goes to work

Toby's summer cut (Ryan and I have become doggie hairdressers)

Gardening

I attempted to clean up our yard a little today. I raked most of the wooden debris out of the front and back yards - and came up with 7 bags without even bagging all of it. Thanks to the ice storm mostly. I also pulled most everything but the strawberry plants out of two beds. It was so thick it was difficult to tell what was weeds and what was not.

Toby had fun in the grass... er... weeds that we need to mow. He even decided to dig a hole and thereby earned himself his 2nd bath in 2 days.

He did not think he deserved this torture so soon even though he only got a quick partial rinse. The water turned brown as soon as he hit it.

This is a view of the orange sky last week during our strong storms and tornado warnings. It was an even darker color orange than this actually.