Luke's What's Happening

Miami Football Equipment Manager - Dancing Machine

2011-12-15T16:43:00.002-05:00

Too funny!

2011-12-12T22:00:00.001-05:00

Photo Card

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Home Run King

2011-06-19T23:25:00.004-04:00

Zach had a big baseball weekend. His team was in a tournament in Monroe. He started off the weekend by getting 6 RBI's their first game on Saturday, including a 3 run homer. Then on Sunday morning he hit another homer, this time a grand slam! These were his first over the fence home runs he has hit. He also won the Home Run King trophy they gave out for the most homers by one person in the tournament. Way to go Slugger!

National Junior Honor Society

2011-06-19T23:20:00.003-04:00

Congratulations to Cole on his induction to the National Junior Honor Society. They held a ceremony right before school finished up for the year. I meant to get this up sooner, but in switching phones, I forgot about the pictures I had taken.

The National - video

2011-05-17T22:41:00.002-04:00

Exile Vilify
Here's video (shot by someone with better seats than us) of them playing Cole's favorite song with Owen Pallett (of Final Fantasy) on violin.

Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks
They did this cool acoustic singalong to end the show.

Family Night at The National Concert

2011-05-17T22:28:00.004-04:00

From National Concert

All four of us went to see The National in concert Sunday night as part of the MusicNOW festival here in town. I've been a fan of the band for a while and the kids are starting to get into them. It was at Music Hall, which was a great place for the kids to see a concert, because they had no trouble seeing. It was a fun night and the band was really good.

Congrats to Cole

2011-02-21T12:40:00.004-05:00

After the post about Zach's game on Saturday, I would be remiss not to also congratulate Cole and his team on their thrilling triple-OT win on Sunday. In a game that saw them play both great and then not-so-great, they buckled down in the last OT to win an exciting game.

Cole played a very good game defensively, and had a great sequence where he drew a charge against the other team's best scorer and then had great assist at the other end. He did a fantastic job playing down low against some kids a lot bigger than he was.

Nice to win both boys' games this weekend, but let's hope future wins aren't so nerve racking for us spectators.

Congrats to ZachBron

2011-02-19T21:05:00.002-05:00

Zach had a whale of a basketball game today. He scored 25 points, to lead his team to a 31-30 overtime win! Even Cole was impressed.

They are 6-1 and tied for first place. GrandJane picked a good weekend to come watch.

Great Basketball Weekend

2011-02-06T20:29:00.004-05:00

Cole and Zach both won their basketball games this weekend. Only the second time so far this year they both came home happy. Zach had a great game on Saturday. He scored 16 of his team's 29 points, and they won by 10. Cole played a good game also, but couldn't get his shots to fall. But his team cruised to a 10 point win also.

3 more games for each of them and then a week of playoff games.

Another gem from Zach

2011-01-15T12:46:00.000-05:00

"I am the sunshine of the family."

-as we eating lunch at skyline discussing how much fun Cole will have while Zach is away at a friend's party

Now we have a new nickname for Z.

Merry Christmas 2010

2010-12-25T20:52:00.004-05:00

Merry Christmas everyone. I've uploaded some pics from the present openings in Loveland and Lima. Click the album below to see the whole set.

Between the Chia Pet, the Snuggie and the Clapper, we pulled off a hat trick of awesome gifts.

2010 Xmas

Zach's Quote of the Day

2010-12-17T18:31:00.002-05:00

"Can we leave now? I don't feel like interacting with the family."

-during dinner with all four of us

First Day Home

2010-08-14T09:33:00.001-04:00

Feb. 21, 2009 - link

Goodbye to a Dear Friend

2010-08-14T08:20:00.004-04:00

We had to say goodbye to Sydney last night. The seizures she started to have last month led to a rapid decline this past week. She went to the vet on Thursday and then to a vet ER and neurologist on Friday. Her condition did not respond to the drug treatments, and by Friday evening there was little hope for her to recover. All of us got to spend some time saying goodbye to her, which was difficult, but we are thankful to have had the opportunity. She wasn't in pain, but she didn't really know we were there. It will be hard not having her with us, but we cherish the time we had with her the past 18 months.

Goodbye, Sydney. We love you.

More Gatlinburg

2010-04-04T20:15:00.003-04:00

We had a lot of fun in Gatlinburg, and the weather was fantastic.

Here's an album of pics from the trip. (We also took some videos, but I'll have to edit those down before I post them for sharing.)

Gatlinburg

Ziplining in the Smokies

2010-04-01T10:04:00.004-04:00

The whole gang went ziplining yesterday morning. It was a blast.

Click on the album pic below to see a bunch of pictures they took of us.

Ziplining in the Smokies

End of Hoops Season

2010-03-13T14:04:00.005-05:00

Zach and Cole both finished up their basketball seasons last weekend. Cole's team made it to the league finals, but lost, so they finished as runners up and got trophies for 2nd place. Zach's team lost in the semifinals to the team that won their league. It was a good season for both teams. It was also the first year that they were both of teams with winning records.

Now it's full steam ahead with baseball.

Buzzer Beater

2010-02-13T20:49:00.004-05:00

Zach and Cole both had games today, and both came out winners.

Zach's game was the nail-biter of the day. His team was nip and tuck with their opponents the whole game, and Zach was having a hard time getting his shots to go in the basket. His team was up 3 points with about 1 minute left, then the other team started to press and scored 2 quick baskets. So Zach was down by 1 with less than 30 seconds. Zach's team got the ball down the court then lost the ball before they could get a shot off. One of Zach's team mates made a great steal and got the ball to Zach. And with 5 seconds left Zach launched a shot about 3 feet behind the free throw line - nothing but net! The crowd went wild as the other team didn't even get the ball back in before time expired. Zach scored 7 points total, his team won 22-21, and he got a lot of high fives and pats on the back.

Cole's game was a lot less nerve wracking, but just as awesome. Cole played against his buddy down the street Trace Dunning, so he was looking forward to getting a win. Cole's team played great, pressing a lot and getting lots of breakaway buckets. They won going away 33-14. Cole scored 4 points, on 2 for 3 shooting, for his best game of the year.

Due to the recent weather cancellations, we get another basketball doubleheader on Sunday. Hopefully that will go well too, as both our teams are in second place, one game behind the leaders.

Another Snow Day

2010-02-10T17:53:00.002-05:00

The boys were off school for the 2nd day in a row. We don't have nearly the snow that our DC family members are getting, but I think we've gotten more than a foot over the last 5 days.

Zach

2009-11-06T14:00:00.001-05:00

The "Grave Reaper"

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Bud Light Real Men of Genius...

2009-08-23T21:56:00.000-04:00

This is for Cole and Zach...
Bud Light Real Men of Genius Commercials ... Listen Now!

WOXY Documentary

2009-07-29T21:12:00.003-04:00

Here's a cool 10 minute long documentary on WOXY, which used to be the main radio station in Oxford, but is now an internet only broadcaster. (And I just read that they are now going to move from Cinci down to Austin fulltime.)

WOXY DOC from Zachary Herche on Vimeo.

Our welcome to the beach

2009-07-23T09:19:00.003-04:00

Kings of Leon

2009-05-14T22:29:00.003-04:00

Sarah and I went to see the Kings of Leon Tuesday night. It was an early birthday present for her. We had a good time and KoL were very entertaining. I've been to 2 concerts in the past month, that's as many as I went to in the previous 5 years probably.

Natinals - Uniform typo

2009-04-19T21:38:00.002-04:00

Jim, what's going on in DC with that baseball team?