Life is Good.

Life is Good.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Hoops


Basketball is off and running. Alex is playing on the Fairfield Jr. High team while Ben is playing comp basketball in a couple local leagues. We have four games a week, not to mention all the practices. Good thing these boys love to play. They play hard. I'm proud of them.

On a side note, I am trying to perfect my basketball photography. It's tough to take a good picture in a gym. You need a quick shutter speed to catch the action, but then you don't let enough light in. I'm thinking I need a much better flash. I will have to write that on my wish list to Santa...





Our Utah Jazz have had an amazing run this last week. They overcame double digit deficits to win the last five games. So fun to watch them play. If they are playing, the game is guaranteed to be on at our house. Big Jazz fans here.
Ben created this from a picture of himself. I thought it was pretty cool and would throw it in:
Lastly, I signed up for the Boise Half Ironman for the second time. This was a super fun race. My training program will start in February. I love having the motivation for a big race.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Halloween Weekend

It was a busy weekend. Basketball, strep, and Halloween. (More on basketball later). Thursday morning after Erin's birthday she complained of a sore throat. Friday her tonsils were large and spotted. Nice. So, we went to the doctor and strep it was. Although I tried to convince her to get a one time antibiotic shot, she would have none of it. Why is it so hard to convince a girl who can barely swallow, has a terrible headache, and who is running a fever of 102 to get a shot? I don't know...so, 10 days of amoxicillin. Good thing that stuff worked fast enough so she felt good enough and was not contagious for trick-or-treating.

Saturday we were still pulling costumes together. I had already taken Austin to Savers for his costume (Al Capone/gangster - his idea). Erin wanted to be a mummy and I hadn't really thought about it until then. I ripped up a sheet and it turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself.



The older boys decided to be stick people with glow sticks. Not bad for a $6 dollar costume. They looked really cool out in the dark. I have a cool video I took but blogger won't upload it for some reason. This picture doesn't really do it justice.
Dinner.
Erin with her loot. Our sweet, elderly neighbor gave us a loaf of his famous homemade wheat bread. The best treat of the night!