Spring Break - visiting Annetta on the way

During the early part of Spring Break, the kids, my Mom , and I drove to Charlottesville, Virginia to visit my grandmother. On the way, we made a couple of stops and one was to see my dear friend, Annetta. We spent about an hour at her house. We weren't able to see Todd since he was at work, but I got to meet her son, Joseph, who is now over one!

Thank you my friend for letting us crash for such a short time. Made me miss you more!!!! Love you!

Annetta & Katie

My Mom with Ruby, Annetta's darling doggie

Rebecca & Joseph

Christian had this thing of throwing a ball at Annetta's kids and whacking them in the forehead. I caught this action of Leah - we thought it was hilarious!


Julianna & Leah - they are 3 months apart in age

You've GOTTA have the silly picture

Annetta & her kids

Christian's Middle School B'ball Experience

(I just realized I hadn't done a post for Christian's b'ball so here it is.)
Christian tried out for the Middle School basketball team in October. We let him give it a try, although honestly we didn't think he'd make it. He did make it - one of 3 6th graders added to the team. We were proud of him, but whew, it made our winter "off season" much busier.

It's so hard to get pictures inside of a gym and these first pictures aren't great because they were taken with my camera.... I didn't want to embarrass him with my big camera at his first games!

Overall, he enjoyed it. He got to dress out with the Varsity team a couple of times, which were definitely the high light of his season. He was so funny - after the first time, he said, "Mom, it was SO cool to run through the cheerleader tunnel and everyone yelling for us!" :-)

Anyway, these aren't the greatest pictures but you can get the idea....


Check out the size difference!!!



These guys were on the J.V. team with Christian watching the game. That's Coach Howell with them

That's Christian & Cameron, his buddy who was on the team with him

Again, notice the size!

Rebecca's basketball season

Rebecca played basketball again this year here in Greenbrier. She had fun and enjoyed her team, although we didn't quite have as successful of a year as last. But she had fun.

We were out of town on the week they did professional pictures, so we took our own.

The team even agreed to meet together a little early for us to take this picture. It turned out good!

Rebecca playing defense

These teams could get quite physical and Rebecca finally started getting into it a little more.

Rebecca was even fouled and got to shoot a free throw...

.....she didn't make this one..... although she made one later in the season!!

Another scuffle.... but she got the ball here!

This team was tough but Rebecca toughened up to play them - maybe it was because her Mom told her that she was allowed 5 fouls and to at least use one or two of them!! :-)

Nice Weather, Grounding, Cuteness & More!!

This is a bit of a catch up blog...
Recently, the big kids were grounded, so they had to get creative in their activities....

Ping pong ..... Warren style

Go Rebecca!!

Go Christian!!

It was quite competitive!


Out of the blue, we had a beautiful sunny, warm day. A couple of the kids took advantage of it and played outside







We found a new way to do Julianna's hair and she LOVES it... had to get a picture..


I got a phone call to look outside and saw this rainbow. It was very beautiful, so I took some pictures....



Look carefully - it's a double rainbow!!

Recently we went to the mall and I took this picture of the kids on the carousel - I think it was during a snow day but I'm not sure (see, it's a catch up picture!!)