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Playoffs, Round Two

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:59:03 +0000

Kate’s team remains alive one more weekend! Despite being absolute dead last in regular season play, the girls are now guaranteed no worse than third place in the tournament, having won both their games this weekend. You can see how happy they are in the pictures at the end of the second game.

Playoffs!

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:34:16 +0000

The kids finished Round 1 of the basketball tournament last weekend. Ben’s team, being the first seed, only had to play 1 game if they won. Which they did.

Kate, not being the first seed, had to play a second game despite winning their first. Unfortunately, they lost that second game so are now in the losers’ bracket, which means one more loss and they’re out. But at least they get to play a second weekend.

Braces off!

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:34:26 +0000

Talent Show

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:05:30 +0000

It was the annual talent show at the elementary school and for the first time, Kate did a group performance. She had fun rehearsing and performing with her friends, but at times also experienced the frustration of working with a group. Kids can do both a solo act and a group performance so next year Kate says she is going to do one of each. She gets the best of both worlds then. Click on the thumbnail for a few pictures.

Ted was the cinematographer for the evening, and for some reason focused only on Kate for a good portion of the 1 minute 15 second act. Oh, well.

Basketball Before the Big Snow (and After)

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:29:05 +0000

Pictures from Ben and Kate’s games from before all the snow happened, including the cupcake celebration for Kate’s birthday at the end of her game.

And pictures from last weekend’s games. We head into the real fun this weekend, with the tournament. Ben’s team is seeded #1, after an undefeated season. Kate’s team …. is not seeded #1, although they did topple the #1 seed last weekend in the last regular season game!

Makeup School Day Cancelled

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:14:32 +0000

The high-fiving from Ben and his teammates tells the fate of the makeup school day that was supposed to be today.

Futsal

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:24:13 +0000

I’ve been testing out my new Flip camera by taking some videos at Ben’s futsal games but it’s been difficult. If I take them at floor level, the plexiglas is in the way and I can only take them from behind one of the goals. If I go up to the second floor, there’s netting and it’s too hard to take in the whole court. In any case, I’ve got some clips. The first is Ben having a pre-game strategy chat with his coach, only to be distracted by a ball that bounces his way:

This next one is Ben winning a 50-50 ball:

And then this last one is when the other team’s keeper pushes Ben around to try to protect his box. Ben just ignores him.

Sledding

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:59:02 +0000

The kids took advantage of the deserted street to go sledding. They normally use our backyard but we had a number of tree limbs fall right in their sledding path. So why not use the street? Nobody was getting out today anyway. We even saw a snowplow stuck at the bottom of the hill!

Here’s Ben:

Kate didn’t quite get the hang of it at first, but soon figured out she had to get a running start. The hill behind our house is much steeper so normally she just pushes off and gravity takes care of the rest.

We lost power for a few hours but luckily it came back at 8:00 at night. Good thing since we’re supposed to have people over tomorrow for the Super Bowl.

Snow

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:16:02 +0000

The front walk and yard.

Storm damage.

Intrepid shovelers.

Snow accumulation.

GMU Basketball

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:29:47 +0000

I’m sitting here watching the snow fall in the epic snowstorm of 2010 which is supposed to dump up to 36″ of snow by tomorrow night. Which is not to be confused with the epic snowstorm of 2009 which dumped 2 feet of snow on us in December. I’m supposed to be gathering stuff in case the power goes out but instead, I’m sitting here posting videos and pictures from our tip last weekend to see George Mason University men’s basketball team. Very productive!