Basketball

We have been really busy lately and I have been terrible about updating our blog.  Although we are long out of basketball season and baseball practice is in full swing I wanted to post our thee basketball players this year.  Selah joined in and loves it!

 I have a tricky time with action shots, I love them but not the blur!  Jack actually joined this team he was playing for second season.

 Luke really did great this year.  He had improved a ton and now loves all things sports like his brother.  Brad helped coach Luke and Selah's teams.  During one of the huddles they all needed to say what the most courageous thing they could think of was and Brad said that he had now coached a Kindergarten team two times.  One of the little boys then said to him "your a girl!".

Selah was a great player but is not the most competitive kid out there.  She told me after one game that she felt really bad for one of the players on the other team who never got the ball or a chance to shoot.  I have never heard that from the boys!
Now moving on to spring, we leave for Florida in a few days and there are flowers blooming all over our yard, I need to take time to grab the camera!

Finally!

 It FINALLY snowed enough here today for some winter fun!  After five basketball games today we bundled up and headed outside during the snowstorm.

 Tucker's only problem was with the mittens, I forgot how much they hate them at this age.

 Jack even got the snowboard out but we don't have quite enough snow for that yet.

 Poor Penny looked like she had boots made of snow after running around all afternoon!  I had to defrost her in the shower when we came in.

 Catching snowflakes!

 Happiness!

 Luke was not still very often for me to take a picture.

 Air!

Hopefully he stays awhile! Bring on the snow.

Luke's Nativity

Luke is very much like his Daddy but there is one thing he does that is a lot like me.  I cannot walk by the Nativity with it all messed up and not set everything just where it is supposed to go.  I also have that problem with Selah's doll house.  We do a whole lot of fixing after our tornado Tucker had been around!  This Christmas season Luke has been very busy setting up their Nativity set only he puts them all where they should be right now. 

 The wise men are still very far away.

 The stable only has animals.

 Mary and Joseph are on their way to Bethlehem.

 And the angel is up high ready to come in when needed!

 Luke also has been learning about how they celebrate Christmas in all of the countries he has had in school.

He puts up an ornament for each one with their flag and loves to say Merry Christmas in their language on the back!

Christmas Crafts

This year for Advent we are reading Jotham's Journey again as a family at night which the boys love but I feel like it's still a bit over Selah's head.  So for her I got an e-book called The Truth in the Tinsel.   There is a scripture reading each day and an ornament craft to make, Selah is Miss Crafty so it's perfect! 

 This was from Isaiah where Jesus is prophesied as the light in the darkness.

 A very happy Selah doing her Rising Sun ornament after we read about Zachariah's prophesy.

 Mary and Elizabeth and their tummies glued on!

 Today she painted egg carten "buildings" after reading about Bethlehem.

 More of Selah's treasures, we have a very full tree this year. 

Tuck was here.

Tucker's 2nd Birthday

Last week was Tucker's birthday and we had his Mickey Mouse Party on Saturday, he got all things Mickey!

 He has gotten pretty good at singing Happy Birthday after all of these birthdays that we've had, and blowing out candles.  Poor Mickey's head had been "melted" back on after breaking multiple times so by cake time he was looking straight up! 

 This is what he was supposed to look like.

We are officially done with birthdays until next summer and are ready to start celebrating the holidays coming up.

Selah's Birthday

Selah's  6th birthday is today and last weekend we had her party, she requested after much thought a Tangled party.

 These are supposed to be the boats from when all of the lanterns were set off!

 We love scavenger hunts!

 Layken did this for me, thank you Layken!

 Poor Flynn, pin the frying pan on Flynn was a lot of fun!

Goodnight princess!  Happy Birthday, we love you!