Zacky's Double Header Basketball Game

Zacky LOVES basketball right now (he's #14 and scores here) . You can also identify him by his "dress" Kara gave him those old shorts of hers and he loves them because they are so long! Ridiculous! He never takes them off!! Cyd put together a team with half 3rd graders and half 4th graders at Flash Factory. We have lost half our games, but they still love it! Zacky plays point guard and he is the leading scorer (impressive since he has to sit a lot because he almost fouls out each game!). Our boys are SO aggressive but we need to work on our crazy shooting! We beat Rich's team, so Melisa was happy...only because we're SO aggressive! Zacky has actually been asking me several times a week to take him to the church gym to practice! practice? is that coming from Zacky!? One of the games we played, he said there was a boy named Kobe. So he told us that he pretended he was LeBron playing against Kobe! He watches games on TV and then practices LeBron's moves on the small goal downstairs. He's so cute! He just hopes he's as tall as Dan one day so that he can dunk!

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Valentines Week :)

It's Valentines! Taylor and Noelle made some adorable sugar cookies!! They were SO yummy! Taylor is definitely quite the little baker!
Zacky likes to go to the church to practice bball...we usually take Hudson or the twins. Taylor loves it too and somehow beats everyone in our shooting race games! She kicked my butt! She played her first YW bball last week. She's such a good shooter but doesn't quite get the game yet :)
Adult V-day Date night. We went to our favorite cheesesteak place for dinner and then to the Valentines Day movie (what a dissapointment-the boys were not happy with us :) After dinner we stopped for treats at Target and had a little bit of time to blow, so of course it got silly :) Mom and Becca were very embarrassed :)
they sell these one piece outfits FOR REAL! wow!
Kelly's was by far the worst!

Valentine's Day. I left church a little early to set up the treats (I'm done with my cushy primary piano calling :( and Bryan's now a primary teacher so I have to do SS alone! bummer) The both asked for Rosetta Stone French. They have been practicing with my pathetic old book and now are so loving this program. It's amazing what they already know. After Cyd's dad went down to Haiti, the kids were talking about adopting a child and that they would need to know French :) They are so cute! Zacky asked for a BIG hersey kiss! Grandma Martin sent money (always a pleaser :) and Mop Mop and Pop Pop sent Zacky a tool belt :) and Taylor lip gloss that she carries everywhere. She LOVES makeup!


On Presidents Day we took the girls ice skating while the boys went ice fishing :) Taylor was a big helper with the little boys :)
Kara was going to take Taylor night skiing, but my binding are broken, so what started with a search for new bindings, turned into finding a new board and bindings! It is SO cute! We told Taylor it was Zacky's birthday present :)
Bryan had to leave town that night but stopped by to coach for 15 minutes :)

What a weekend of everything!

the science fair! Taylor did "is yawning contagious?" she brought a funny video of Noelle fake yawning :) Austin won best in show!
I had to bring Taylor a rootbeer when I came to check out the fair because her throat was hurting so bad! We had about 5 months of no sickness and then Taylor, Zacky and Daddy all got sore throats and coughs for about 2 weeks!
after the fair, Bryan and I stopped to say hi to Zacky...I had to get a picture of Lauren :) Look at his face looking at her!

This Saturday was CRAZY. We had an early bball game against Rich's team. Melisa was freaking :) We ended up winning by one point! It was so fun! Zacky scored half our points! After we all went to Denny's (gross-thanks Cyd) for breakfast. That started our day.
Melisa was so happy that Bryan was in town to coach :) He makes our defense so much better!
We went home and the grieve's came over to practice batting then we were off to soccer. We played against an older girls team that was ridiculous. They played the 'I'm a girl so you can't foul me, but I can crash you into walls!' Their parents were out of control to and it was the first time I've ever seen Cyd come seriously unglued! entertaining! We won by 4 but our boys were so mad!
Then we all went to Pizza factory. Taylor and Austiin sat with Haley :)
Bryan yelled a lot at the soccer game so Zacky was really mad at him!
the boys entertaining themselves :) crazy day but lots of fun!

dad came to visit

Taylor got glasses! She can't read the board at school , but was very nervous to tell me because of the famous lying incident when she was 7 :) She promised up and down that she really couldn't see! so funny! she's happy because they're pink and brown and mostly because she can actually see now :)
dad came to visit...we spent most the week eating, dealing with the internet and shining up the slate :) but we did put him to work with Zacky, Seth and Alec. He really helped them with their batting but it was an interesting night approaching the coaches with it...we're expecting our 'leave the team' email this week :)...the baseball drama goes on :)...
not quite allowed...but the whole family invaded Ultimate Sports...everyone had lots of fun!!

Bryan's birthday laser tag party

Zacky loves flying his plane... it would help if we weren't constantly having issues with the battery!
Zacky used his money to buy aviators like Austin...wow, it's a look. We were walking in a store and I said, 'I don't think you need your glasses on in the dark." and he said, ' ahhh, mom, I didn't buy them for the light!' he bought them for the coolness ;) He wears them out to recess to impress Lauren...not sure if it's working ;)
I set up family Laser Tag for Bryan's birthday...he made me play too! It was quite the night!


At the very end, Bryan jumped off a huge rock wall and busted his ankle...considering he's running a half marathon the next weekend, not such a bright idea! And Devin was mad, of course, because he thought Bryan was cheating :) wow

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