More winter picture catch up

Of course these didn’t load in order 🤦🏼‍♀️

Mason 11th birthday was in February, he talked me into a sleepover and ice fishing with 3 buddies.

Kade and Erik braving the cold with those 4 hooligans!

Mason’s birthday is right after his cousins’ Isaac and Eve and the day before Uncle Mike’s.  So we just did a family celebration with all the birthdays.

Bubba and Nibble.  Those 2 are pretty dang entertaining!

One of the dress up days in school this year was dress as your first initial (i.e. Kristi Kite). So mason dressed as the elementary principal, Mr. Midge!

He’s such a fun, easy going guy who totally speaks Mason’s language.  So we had fun with this one!!

Mr Midge gave Mason and his buddies the nickname “The Naughty Niners”.  Mason’s buddy Nyle (who is a Niner) dressed up as a Naughty Niner.

Mason handed out pink slips 😆

More basketball!

The boys ice fished, I brought lunch. Hot dogs and chips on the frozen lake!  It was a great afternoon!!

 

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.