He shoots, He scores!

Hockey is no longer a spectator sport for my boys. They have loved watching it and playing street hockey in the driveway, but now they are making serious business of it. As you can see from Jacob's face.

 Jeffrey has started playing a men's league which has sparked their interest more so I looked into a Learn to Play class for Jacob. He does not love basketball so I figured I would try to find something for him in the winter. I didn't anticipate the repercussions of that decision....the cost of equipment and leagues is crazy, and Joshua loves it at well. Try telling one boy he can have his dream come true and not the other :(

 Jacob has his equipment....thank goodness for summer clearance. Joshua is on his way to getting most of his. That's the bummer about being bigger....equipment cost goes up with size. I heard someone call into a radio station one time saying that should be true for women's clothing, that larger women should pay more than the smaller women. I don't like it here so I certainly wouldn't like it for me, though I do see the logic.

 Jeffrey has decided to play goalie. I hate that position for my kids. The pressure is rough. Though my favorite hockey player was a goalie. Goalie equipment is even more expensive so I will not be encouraging Joshua and Jacob into that position, and I will be stapling Jeffrey's lips together when he tries to!

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Jacob's Thoughts on Mother's Day

"I can't wait for tomorrow to come"....as in Monday :)

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Cinco de Mayo

This morning I woke up to the sound of two boys and the sound of shoes on the floor that I knew were not theirs. When I got up they were both dressed in fancy white shirts, pants and daddy's dress shoes.

Later I asked Joshua was motivated him to wake up and get dressed all fancy. He said, "It's Cinco de Mayo". I told him that it was a Mexican holiday. He said, "Yeah but at school I learned that more American's celebrate it than in Mexico". That made me laugh. Of course we would celebrate it more...it's a alcohol holiday.

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I'm a Proud Mama

I got a couple of emails the other day that put a lump in my throat when I read them to Jim. They were from two of the coaches that worked with Joshua this season.

" I hope Josh had fun and will stick with the team. He's a really good shooter and as time goes on and he learns to gage how hard or soft to shoot, he is going to be a big time scorer. He has the moves and desire already, and as a coach it can be hard to motivate them to get to that point, but not so with Josh. He gives 100% effort and that's so fun to see!"

"It was a pleasure coaching this year. I saw a lot of talent in the kids. I think Josh really improved in the way he was seeing the floor and he started to drive to the basket more as the year progressed. He has great intensity out there and desire. You may want to have him go to a good camp this summer if you can. I think some of the drills they teach would give him a great jump on next year."

I was so proud! I love rhat kid!

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A Tradition in the Making

Last year the boys and I headed up to see my niece Baileigh's school play. Shortly after Joshua started asking me when her next play would be because he liked it so much. I wanted to know too, afterall, we ate poutine and pie afterward and ate the leftover pie for dessert the next morning in the hotel.

So when it came time for the production this year we headed up. There wasn't any snow left up north either, just a beautiful dusting up on Mt. Washington.

 Along the way we stopped at the fish hatchery.

 All the millions of fish weren't too happy to see us as we didn't have quarters with us to buy fish food.

 I'm pretty sure this guy was giving me dirty looks.

 A trick daddy teaches them to catch a fish with their hands. Brrrrr the water was freezing!

 I've often wondered how they keep the bears away from the fish. Once Auntie asked the people there and they said the bears don't mess with them. I saw several of these bear prints by the water's edge so I'm not so sure about that.

 Next it was off the the hotel pool after the long ride (which Joshua said was nothing compared to Florida!).

 The play this year was Tom Sawyer. They needed to turn some of the boy parts into girl parts since they had more girls than parts. Baileigh was one of the grave robbers.

 Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher

 And the boys' favorite, Huck Finn

 To end tne evening we headed to the Dairy Bar for Poutine, food and pie. But this time there was no leftover pie for breakfast. Boo Hoo.

Since it was a beautiful day we headed over to visit Bay again and take a walk.

 The boys were monkeys, she was freaking out, and I'm just used to it by now. Just another day in my life.

Can't wait to see what the play is next year and to spend the weekend with my boys swimming and eating what our hearts contend :)

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End of the Road

Joshua has been so very fortunate to have two awesome coaches two years in a row. Last year in his first year his team when 9 and 1. They kept getting better as the season went on but lost in the first round of the playoffs.

This year his team went 9 and 1 again. There only loss was to a team with a kid that had a foot on even Joshua. They kept him under the basket and his team just couldn't get their number. Wouldn't you know, they made it to the championship game and lost to them again. It was such an exciting game, you would never think it would be with 5th and 6th grade.

Here the team is being introduced...meet the Thunder with Coach Montgomery.

 Here Joshua is getting pumped up and getting his game face on.

 Team meeting, talking strategy.

 At least they still got tropheys. There's always next year. I just hope he is lucky enough to get another great coach. Three years in a row might be a lot to ask.

 He's a champion in my book.

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Downtown Disney

And so the theme continues of not enough time in a day. After taking a drive to see Gram and take her to lunch, we headed back to the pools. The boys chose that over the beach. Then we rushed off to Downtown Disney. We literally dragged kids by their hands through to get some food and get to the part we knew they wanted to see. We ran out of time before we got to go to Guirdelli :(

Here are some pics from our whirlwind trip through.

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