Happy Birthday to ME!!

Jeff had these pretty, pretty, roses sent to me at work for my birthday!  Down in the bottom of the left hand corner you can see the top of a picture he colored for me as well...he is by far, the best boyfriend I've had.  None of the past issues I had with guys exist with Jeff AND he sends me flowers!!!!

Delta Eagle Already

 I got a call several weeks ago from a guy whose son goes to school with Jayke.  He has coached one of the teams on the Royerton League  in previous years and noticed Jaykeb when we played against his team.  He is also the same coach that saw Jayke at the YMCA one day when mom had taken him and asked, "Is that Howell?"  She told him yes and he told her that Jayke is really good and he remembered watching him play for the Royerton team.  He was calling to tell me he was putting together an AAU travel team and wanted to know if Jayke would be interested in playing on it?  OF COURSE HE WOULD BE INTERESTED!!

I'm not sure which one of us is more excited about this, Jayke or me!  First of all, for him to have noticed Jayke and feel that he was who he wanted to play point guard on this team was awesome!  Secondly, the experience he is going to get playing for this team versus the other elementary school team will be ten times better.  Also, all of the kids on this team are Jayke's friends and the boys who he will hopefully continue to play with for many years.

We play in the Richmond league so that means there is some travel for us.  Here the boys are waiting for their game to start in the big Richmond gym.

We also get to play in the Muncie Central Field house.  This was exciting for the boys because of the size of the gym, exciting for me because I hadn't been in there since I was a freshman in high school, and exciting for the grandparents because they hadn't been in there in a lot longer than that!  It's going to be fun watching these boys develop there game over the next several years.

One Unhappy Zombie

One thing you don't want to do is tick off a zombie, especially one trained in combat. I have managed to do  this quite easily.  Personally, I think he looks great!  He on the other hand thinks I am the WORST at putting on Halloween makeup ever and wants me to take him straight to Bob's so he can put his makeup on for him.

Once we got to Bob's he convinced him that his makeup was applied well and he wasn't in need of a touch up.  I think maybe he was really afraid that he would end up looking like a green faced Brett Michaels zombie!!!

Jeff joined us with his kids and two of their friends.  Zach is the werewolf in the back and Emily is in the pink dress in front.  Seth wouldn't join the picture, I guess when you are twelve it isn't cool to get your picture taken in costume with a bunch of younger kids!  

We took them all Trick or Treating around Bob's neighborhood and they got tons of candy.  All the kids got along well which is encouraging for future get togethers.

Halloween Classic and the End of the Season

Every year we end our fall soccer season with the Halloween Classic tournament.  It is one of my favorites both for it's theme and also it is the closest tournament to home that we play.  This year the tournament fell on the weekend after Halloween but it didn't lessen the fun!