Friday, June 27, 2025

Christmas and Basketball

As I’m sitting here on our summer vacation, it’s weird to be blogging about Christmas and basketball!  But here we are.

Christmas Eve church service 


My Christmas Eve dinner kitchen helpers!


Mason supervised


The annual kids and pups in front of the tree.
The pups keep appearing smaller in the growing boys’ arms!









I couldn’t get these to upload in order.  

This year the varsity boys basketball team played a game in Target Center.  Afterwards we watched the Timberwolves play.  The tickets included both games.  It was the first time the boys have seen an NBA game live.  They loved it!



We had nosebleed seats, but we got to be on court side
seating for warmups.  
It was pretty cool seeing how tall NBA players are, how amazing they are at handling the ball and shooting (even the ones that don’t normally showcase that talent in the game).  The boys were blown away with the level of skill!  And it was cool seeing players up close when you’ve only seen them on tv





Dinner between games






Varsity warming up



Mason’s team.
They aren’t great but dang did they show improvement every week!  And even won a few games!  Slow and steady might win the race for this group of players.






Monday, May 19, 2025

Halloween for Mason, the moms decided to make them go as The Sandlot characters.  And they did NOT disappoint!!

My little Benny the Jet 





Our annual Christmas get together with the Hoehn’s!
We did Christmas pajamas this year.  They were actually a big hit with everyone!  Even those teenage boys!!






Mason’s 5th grade recorder concert.  



Some 8th grade basketball pictures of Kade




Decorating Christmas cookies




Mason was the lead in his class Christmas play




3D movie with Isaac 


Grandpa hurt his leg slipping on ice this year.  Kade hunted this lil guy down, cooked him up and made dinner for grandpa.