State BB 2010 - Des Moines

Here are a few pictures I took at state - this game on Thurs - was a rainbow theme - Seniors wore blue - Junior green - Sophmores yellow and Freshman red - here are a bunch of Juniors that Marcus hangs out with quite a bit!!

This is Marcie Kooima - I work with her everyday and go to Des Moines and she is there too - looks really good though with no paint on her!!!

Here is Jamie and her friends with two cheerleaders - the outside ones are cheerleaders - Chelsea on the left and my niece Alex on the right

Mike teaching the girls to play blackjack at the hotel!!

Marcus taking a swim!!

Wasting time at the mall playing mini-golf till game time on Friday !!

WESTERN WON 2A state championship -YEAH!!!

Bridges Bay 2010

Here are some pictures from last weekend with the Pollema's at Bridges Bay in Okoboji - we spent most of the time by the water park - was tons of fun and good to forget about the snow and cold for just a little while :)

Bonnie with her grandbaby - Kaylee

relaxing by the hot tub - Dad - Mike - Marcus

Great-grandma with Kaylee

The two babies - Brendan and Kaylee - they will both be one this month - WOOHOO

We celebrated Sawyer's 7th birthday while we were there - he turns 7 on March 10 - he was excited to celebrate in the hotel room!!

Grandpa and Grandma with the babies on the lazy river - was HUGE to get mom in the water - she doesn't like water and then we had her in a tube too!

This is how we got that accomplished - we had reinforcement on all sides of the tube :)

Just another part of the pool - they could play basketball and cross over the lilly pads - they had a huge part for the babies too - but I didn't get a picture of that

Vanessa coming down one for the big slides

Jamie and Alex - they are growing up so much!!

Then on the way home on Sunday - we took Vanessa to walk on the water - they are standing on the lake but can't even tell since there is so much snow on the ice yet - we had to kick lots of snow away to get to see the ice - was fun-filled weekend!!

On to state basketball!!!

These are pictures from state basketball 2009 - well Western made it again and we are planning on going next weekend if they win on Monday.
Marcus is going on Monday with his friends and one of their fathers - if they win we play again on Thursday at 2 - win or lose on Thur. we play on Friday either consilation or championship.
Marcus is going to stay with friends in a room at the same hotel we are at(we need to watch them a little yet :))))

Mike and I get to chaperone these three cuties on Thurs and Friday. We play at 8pm on Monday the 8th and then hopefully we will have a fun, filled weekend in Des Moines after that. These girls have school all week - so we are staying home on Monday so they don't have to miss quite as much school(which they weren't too concerned about but it's better this way) They have the next four years to come yet and with Western's track record - I'm sure they will get their chance of going again!!

Vanessa's Birthday Today!

It's Vanessa's Birthday Today(Monday) but we celebrated yesterday with family and friends!

This is before church - we took the cake to Grandpa and Grandma's house for lunch after church

Sawyer took a picture with Vanessa

She got a John Deere sweatshirt from grandpa and grandma

Here is the gang - we did a number on the cake - was very good - Vanessa leaves for Hawaii on Wednesday for her YFU trip - so her cake was a Hawaiin theme - she is very excited and is looking very forward to being WARM again!!!

Winter Festival at school!

Tonight is the Winter Festival at Rock Valley Christian School. Since I am an eighth grade mom we get to help with serving the supper - It's seems like just yesterday that Marcus was starting Kindergarten there and now Jamie will be graduating in a few months and we will no longer have any children going there WOW - time flies - we have had many last this year - last time for chapel at the beginning of the year - last time I needed to help with Pie day and Jog-a-thon - last time for helping with the Winter Festival - but with all the last there will be many firsts as well - just the next step for us on our journey.

Snowman Day!

We decided Sunday afternoon that everyone needed to help make a snowman - so we all got dressed for the weather and headed out!

He turned out to be really cute and one thing lead to another and the fun began!!!

First a snowball fight and then Mike tackled Marcus and yeah you see what happened!

Well, Marcus couldn't let that be the end - so it continued!

I sure was glad I had the camera - we all had a great time and got some much needed fresh air!

Sorry it's been awhile!

Marcus was Referee Pitman at the big show - here he called a false start on Jim Boogerd - everyone laughed and laughed and laughed - Jim didn't know what to do - it was funny.

He was quite the comedian - loved it - he played his role well!!

I'm still here just a bit busy this week :

Monday: Jamie and Mike went to hunter's safety course - Vanessa, Marcus and I had Big show rehearsal at church.

Tues: Jamie has volleyball practice and we were moving some stuff for the big show yet and finalizing details

Wed: Big show - at church by 3:30-4 oclock - it was a huge success and lots of fun our theme this year was tail-gate party - clean up and home by 10

Thur: Jamie had a basketball game in Sioux Center - and then we had a belt project for church to help with Christian education chapter so we all went from 6 till 9

Fri: Vanessa went to Des Moines for the weekend for a global exchange program brought her to Spencer - Jamie had basketball practice and then came home with 3 other girls for supper and movie - Marcus went to a movie with the guys

Sat: Marcus is taking his ACT test today - Jamie has end of year basketball tournament in Orange City - Vanessa still in Des Moines - Mike is walking Paco now and I am getting ready so we can leave when he gets back - Western plays basketball in Sioux Falls tonight.

We are at a busy time but just loving it - the kids are great to follow and so glad that they like to hang out here - they came over last night and requested spaghetti - since they had tournament today and they needed carbs - so I went to the grocery store and Mike and I made spaghetti for them all - it was great!