Volleyball Official

Nicole got her first paying job.  She's babysat a few times, but it's really not her cup of tea.  She found out that the high schoolers could be paid to be the junior high volleyball officials, and she signed right up.  Did a good job, too.  Of course, the job's over already, because other students are reffing the remaining home games, but she reffed both games last week and came away with $60 for her effort.  Pays better than babysitting, too!

There's always one ref up on this platform and another ref standing on the floor at the opposite end of the net.

She didn't hesitate to take the "up" position the first night when the other student said she didn't want it.  I love how confident she is.

She's now done both positions and I'm sure will do it again for next year's season.  She's also shown an interest in doing some reffing for basketball.  I think she's found another niche.  Especially if it's a profitable one!

Volleyball Season

Junior high volleyball had their first game last night.  They didn't win, but for their first game, they did a great job.  After it was all over, I realized that my camera was not focusing very well so all my pictures are a little blurry.  Luckily, I'll have lots of opportunities to try again in the coming weeks, so I will do better!

I would normally crop this photo down so you could actually see the main subject, but it's too blurry to do that, so you have to just believe me that that's Ellea serving the ball!

Basketball Boy

Our youngest has now been bitten by the basketball bug.  The girls didn't start  playing until 5th grade, but this boy has talked us into letting him try out the "peewee" basketball program in Cottonwood.  He has spent the last two Saturdays with the high school boys' coach and players learning the ins and outs of the game.

And  now for the next few weeks, Glenn gets to coach a team of eight 2nd through 4th grade boys every Saturday.  He's a good dad, that guy.  Should be interesting.  Stay tuned...

Ice Cream and Games

 Part of our fun day with Grandma involved ice cream at this fun little shop that has a cupboard full of board games, a whiteboard table that you can draw on and another table that is a checkerboard.  We started out playing a fun game called Headbandz, and then Morgan and I tried our hand at checkers.

I thought I knew how to play checkers, but I was actually sorely out of practice.  Apparently, Grandma is a checkers guru and was able to guide us and remind me of the rules.  Of course, that meant that it was really Morgan and Grandma against me, but it was fun.  I'm way too competitive to worry about beating my 9 year old son at checkers!  Ugh!  Now I feel kinda bad!  We didn't actually finish the game because checkers can go on forever, apparently, but we had a good time.

Ellea found the backgammon board and grandma showed her how to play.  I also used to know how to play that game, but my memory is more like a sieve than a vault.  Everything leaks out!  Oh well.  Someday I won't remember anything, and then I won't feel so bad about having forgotten bits and pieces!

Legal Action

This is how kids feel about my blog sometimes . . .

www.babyblues.com

Oh well.  What can I say?  Thankfully, you can't take your mom to court for posting embarrassing pictures on the internet.  At least, I don't think you can.

Monday Fun

The kids and I were determined to do something fun on our Monday off from school this week.  We decided to head to Grangeville and hang out with Grandma for a few hours.

After some yummy ice cream, we stopped at the waterfall for pictures.  We took similar pictures about a year and a half ago.  Kids grow up too fast.  I'm sure you know that, but I just had to say it again.

I considered bringing my good camera along, but decided against it.  I'm really slacking lately with being the mom who takes her camera everywhere.  I need to work on that.  Luckily the girls always have their iPods handy and they take decent pics.