Wretched With a Side of Wretchedness!

Is how I feel about this project.  Mini Economy, Market Day...whatever you call this.  I call it Wretched!!!  Jayke's class had to come up with a product to sell and open a store in the gym in which to sell his wares.  Jayke and Oma made book marks and rubber stamps.  We didn't have a lot of time for this project so I feel we could have made a few improvements.  The book marks, although cute, would not stand up to use from a kid.  The stamps might have been a good idea if we had provided some sort of ink.  Over all, he sold most of the book marks, very few of the stamps, and learned a valuable lesson in business.  He came home and said, "They made me pay $30 to open my store and I didn't even make $30!  I lost money!"  Welcome to the real world, son.  

All I do is Win, Win, Win...

No matter what!  Another win today.  Season is going really well!

I Deserve a Lil Appreciation

Apparently the school thinks showing appreciation means letting me buy books at their book fair.  They did have some donuts, coffee, and juice in thanks.  I figured since this was going to be the last one I ever get a chance to go to, I better go.  Jayke was happy I did.  He got to show my the mural the kids painted this year in the cafeteria.  He pointed out the square that his group of three did.  The back pack in the last picture.  He is quite proud of the mural and he should be, it was really nice.  Brightened up the cafeteria.

As we head into the final weeks of elementary school I'm finding it hard to believe that it's over.  Middle school is just around the corner.  We go for orientation on the 18th!  Jayke is nervous that he will get lost but I think he is excited about middle school.  That makes one of us.  :(

Halloween in April

We FINALLY got our championship trophies for the Halloween Classic we played last October.  This whole trophy business was a mess from start to finish.  First we had to wait 6 months to get them since the tournament organizers weren't prepared and didn't have them in time....apparently they hadn't even ordered them since it took so long.  We got a message a week or so ago that we were going to finally be getting them on picture night.  We would receive our trophies and there would be a team photo taken etc. The whole club would watch us receive them since this was our first win at this age group ever.  We have been looking forward to this for a long time!  This morning when I looked at the weather forecast I wasn't even sure that we would have pictures at all let alone the trophy presentation.  It was cloudy, cold, and windy.  I mean, brutally windy.  Turns out we barely did have the presentation.  After this season's pictures were taken the kids were taken over across the field and each one was handed a box with their name on it.  The trophy was inside.  They told them to stand in front of this trailer because it was blocking the wind, and we all snapped a picture.  So here they are...the champs...looking like a rag-tag bunch of kids just trying to stay warm.

Soggy Bottom Boys

No Oma, no big hat, and we got the win today!  I'm glad it was warm because these kids were drenched.  The first rain drops hit my windshield right as I was pulling into the parking lot and it didn't let up the entire time we were there.  Jayke had a hard time seeing since he wears goggles to play.  At one point he ended up tossing them over to us on the sideline.  The coach told me later he came over and said, "I can't see anything but the ball!"  I guess if you can only see one thing, the ball is the one you want!

At Least There Was no Giant M&M Umbrella

Jayke was so embarrassed that Oma wore this big floppy hat to his soccer game today.  I, oddly, was not phased by it.  I am becoming immune to her old lady ways, I guess.

He will get to enjoy it for an entire week when she takes him to Alabama this summer.

We lost the game, first loss of the season, maybe it was the hat.

Cotton Candy, Jumbotron, and Boomer!

Yes, we have great seats for a change.  Back at another Pacer's game.  Jeff bought 6 tickets for us all to go and made sure we were down on the lower level this time where we could be close to the action!  It's a different experience when you sit this close and the kids loved it.  Jeff and I were pretty happy with it too!  Jayke finally got his $4.00 cotton candy, we made it on the Jumbotron twice.  Apparently we were even on the televised broadcast.  Boomer came up to see us and the game went to double overtime to keep the Pacers' playoff chances alive!!!  It was an exciting night and everyone had a lot of fun.  Definitely the most fun I've had at a game.  This was Jayke's second Pacer's game this season and mine too.  Bob took him to one a couple of months ago as well.  He thinks he is a regular now.  

Reunited...and Rewarded!

These two are teammates once again!  They were both thrilled!  We even brought back the "fancy feet" and got matching cleats again.  This weekend was our first look at the new team.  From what I had been hearing from Jayke after practice I didn't have very high hopes.  He kept telling me how the coach isn't playing anyone in their normal positions and some other crazy stuff.  I quickly changed my mind though once I saw us roll over the competition at our season opening tournament in Brownsburg.  

After day one we had won both of our games and it was looking pretty good for us heading into the final day of play.  We easily won our third game which put us in the championship game.  Great way to start the season.  Coming off of last season's Championship win at our final tournament, this was a great sign for our team this season! 

We ended up going to overtime in the championship game but couldn't quite pull off the win.  We ended up as tourney runner up and got a nice trophy for it!  Finally, getting to bring home some hardware that isn't just for participation.  Runner up right out of the gate isn't too shabby, looking forward to what this team can do the rest of the season and in our next two tournaments!

Those Eggs Have Already Hatched!

Jayke had a busy Easter.  First he went to his Dad's (AKA his grandparent's) and had Easter with his aunt, cousins, and dad.  They went to an Easter egg hunt and got to see the Easter bunny.  They also got to pet some baby chicks and he got a bunch of candy.

Once Jayke got home, on Easter morning, we went and had breakfast with Jeff.  He had an Easter basket for The Boy and I had given his kids their baskets from me on Friday.  

After that, we went to Dad's house and he met Kim's new puppy.  The puppy loved Jayke, of course and we had to go through the whole, no you aren't getting another dog thing.  We had the annual Easter Egg hunt there as well.  I lost my title as champion egg hunter.  I think they had a plan to dethrone me after years of winning.  I ended up giving all of my eggs to Jayke because he is not a very stellar egg hunter.  We got the usual haul plus some from Dad.  Lots of candy and this year I asked for some healthy snacks too.  Probably shocked the Easter Bunny greatly, I'm surprised he even knew where to look for the healthy stuff!

Finally, we finished up at Oma's and dinner with Uncle Mark.  Jayke had to try out his new soccer ball with Jackson and Uncle Mark before we finally headed home after a jam packed day.