State AAU Tournament on Saturday

Jamie played in the state AAU volleyball tournament - their were 15 teams that qualified for the gold tournament in Newton IA (by Des Moines). Jamie played in 8 matches of 2 games a piece - long day but they had a great day!! 1st game she played was against Newton high school - a little later in the day we found out that Aunt Harriet had a granddaughter playing that first game against Jamie - she was playing against her distant cousin and didn't even know it! Aunt Harriet was there and so was Kathy so we visited with them for awhile too which was nice.

After the final game this is Western's two teams that were there and MOC's team got in a big circle and one of Western coaches led them in prayer - was very neat to see - they played FOR HIM and then gave HIM the glory for the great day.

This is Jamie's team - they got 3rd

Both teams from Western!!

Tairin Van Tol - Amber Westra - Josie Kollis and Jamie - great friends of Jamie's

And then pics with her parents!!! MOC got 1st - Western got 2nd and 3rd and Sheldon got 4th. We all drove 4 hours to play and all top 4 teams were from NW Iowa!! Pretty fun and we had a great time - now Jamie is started Golf today - no rest for her I tell ya!!

Pictures from State Basketball

At this game they had a white out - I crawled through the crowd and took pictures of Marcus and Jamie before the game started but only this game didn't want to embarass them at all the games - This is the Seniors - Marcus has a great group of friends and they get along really well - if you can see it - Mariah the girl in the front way on the left has a 20 oz. pop can in her hair - was quite unique and the guys are sporting headbands with hair that Peoples Bank handed out when tournaments started.

Here is a close up of the hair - Marcus is impressed with the picture as you can tell and Brandalyn is inbetween Marcus and Brandon :)

And the freshmen - hard to get their attention - but I got a few!!! Hard to believe that this year is almost over already.

White-headed Robin!

Marcus has spotted this Robin lately around our home and last night right after supper - he found him again and quickly got the camera and got a great picture!! He was busy running in our flower bed and by our mailbox - we watched him for the longest time - so fun to see Spring on its way - the weather this week is in the 50's all week - we are almost feeling a bit spoiled!!

PAINTING!!

We will haved lived here 8 years come this August - the guy that built our home said that routine maintenance on a house is that you should repaint the inside every 5-10 years, to keep moisture in your home and keep the drywall good - well I am repainting!! I started in the office, did the entry, the downstairs bathroom is finished, started the sunroom and the big room downstairs will be finished after today - no big color changes but just warming it up and staying pretty neutral - I am having fun and doing major house cleaning at the same time - good insentive that Marcus is graduating in a few months!!! Well, I better get back to work - next week I hope to do kitchen/family room upstairs and the master bedroom!!