Third grade basketball is a hoot!

I love watching Zachary play any sport pretty much.  But he just seems to LOVE basketball.  He loves any sport but the adrenalin just seems to pump with basketball.  However, I hate taking pictures.  Yep, still harping on needing a DSLR.  Anyone want to give me one?  I will advertise it for you.  :)

So here a a few pictures of Third Grade Basketball. 

I really had to work in Photoshop to get the colors and brightness good in these photos.  For some reason they came out very yellow.  And of course dark!

Maybe I should just use the video camera.  Sigh.

Can’t leave out Zane of course!

MORE snow! And expecting more next week…

Beginning to be a banner year for snow.  This was a beautiful snow.  Came pretty much straight down.  Five and a half inches.

Do you know how hard it is to get a good picture of snow coming down?  Well it is.

 

And after it ended, here is what we had.

   

Sharing cookies at Mothers Day Out for Zane’s birthday

Just had to share a few.  He was so tickled to have his friends sing happy birthday to him.

    

Zachary’s basketball game later!

Zane’s Birthday at Chuck E Cheese

Zane has been so excited about this birthday.  There is something that happens when a child discovers birthdays and this was the year for Zane.  He has talked and talked about a birthday party.  Oh, Kathleen has set up one for next Sunday at the house complete with a Thomas Train cake, Thomas invitations, the works. 

But he wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese for his birthday today.  He was SOOOOOO excited.  And he really wanted a cake and candles and presents today.  So when he got to my house this morning I told him we would bake a cake.  Of course,  we had to do it immediately.  All day he kept asking about when we were going.  It was decided that Kathleen would go right after work and Ross and I would go pick up Mike and the boys and meet her at Chuck E Cheese.  Zane did inform me that we needed to be on time!  Yep, excited kid.

We did get there on time.  All the way there Zane kept saying “Are we almost there?”.  When we turned through the mall, he piped up “Nana, we are nearly there!” Yep, exited I tell ya.

So here are pictures of Zane’s birtday at Chuck E Cheese.  You’ll just have to also see pictures of his birthday party this Sunday also!

Skiball (is that how that is spelled?)  Really one of Zane’s favorites.

 

 

Even Papa had a ball playing the games.

 

Coins all spent – time for cake and presents.  He only got a couple of books from us.  But he was happy.  More to come Sunday!

 

Very nice evening.  We all had fun!

Ice crystals on the snow

The ice was breaking off trees and falling onto the snow.  Gorgeous!  I tried to capture that beauty but it is next to impossible.  Just had to share.

Then last night we had the moon.  It was awesome. Just could not get the right settings.  Yep, need a DSLR.  I am campaigning!

Let’s go sledding!

WARNING!  LOTS of pictures.  And a video at the end! 

Now I know that you people who live in the frozen north and in the mountains have it all figured out when it comes to sledding. Here it is a treat! 

  

And we grab what we have and run for the closest hill.  Well, hill being an overpass somewhere that does not have us ducking for cover every time a vehicle comes by.  But you know, everyone has so much fun. 

We bought some little funky sleds a few weeks before Christmas anticipating going to the mountains skiing and giving the boys a little extra fun.  The fun on sleds has all been at home!  And with this last storm we are so glad we bought those when we did.  There are none to be found in Amarillo right now.  All bought up.  But everyone was very good taking turns using the sleds and the one BIG cookie sheet I have. 

Yep, just pure Texas fun! 

Sledding on the overpass.

Pictures around the house of our snow

Snow… creates interesting windows

Inside

and out

And it covers the ground in interesting patterns

Making drifts

And swirls around the trees

And makes the mundane really stand out

Creates jobs

And at the end of the day, there is more beauty…

Hopefully we can go sledding in the next day or two and those will be some fun pictures! 

Winter is back in the Panhandle

And it is back with a bang!  We have ice on the roads, schools closed, businesses closed, some power outages due to ice.  Yep, I am snuggled in with hot coffee, fireplace going, still in my pajamas, and going to enjoy the day.  Probably two days.  I hear that the snow is getting ready to set in and we may have I-40 closed by noon.  Believe me, everyone at the grocery store yesterday thought we would be snowed in for the next month according to the shopping going on.  And it is cold, icy, snowy…

When am I going to learn to share my photos on the day I take them?  So ok, you have to wade through a few days.  First sunrise last week. 

The some just cool clouds.  I saw more a day or so later I liked but just could not get a good photo – in my opinion.

Back to my scrapping.  Taking advantage of being stuck indoors.  Scrapping and updated the blog layout.  Kind of nice.  Maybe I can get more photos this afternoon.  And maybe we can go sledding tomorrow.