This & That

Danielle made the travel basketball team and had her first practice last week. They will be practicing 2 hours a night, 2 nights a week for the next few months. Scrimmages start late November. Games are in December, January, & February. Practices for her travel softball team start this coming week. They will practice one night a week for the next few months. She will be a busy girl...which is exactly the way she likes it.

Ball handling drills.
It will be neat to see how much they've improved by the end of the season!

This Saturday was Danielle's last volleyball game. Here is a picture of the team. I am so glad we are done with volleyball. Practices were a joke. At the last practice Danielle attended, she got kicked in the head by someone who insisted on doing a cartwheel after each serve, tackled when she ran to get the ball, and just generally annoyed by all the fooling around & rolling around on the floor by everyone else. We did not attend the final practice because I was tired of wasting my time. Do I sound grumpy?

Today we went to the park to look at the winners of the photo contest. Danielle and I did not win. Some of the winning photos were really good, some were not. The winning photo in the kids' category was not stunning. The guy monitoring the photos told Danielle he had overheard several people commenting on her photo, and we could see entry forms in the fan favorite jar with her picture # on it, so she left feeling pretty good about herself.

While we were at the park I convinced the kids to let me get an updated picture of them. We decided a family picture wouldn't kill us either. How did the kids grow up so quickly...and how did I get so old?! :)