The Aces and Dark Thunder

The three big kids  all played sports this fall. Emma played volleyball, Ben soccer, and Spencer basketball. Well Spencer is still in his season so I’ll post pictures of him later.

This was Emma’s third season playing volleyball through the YMCA. Her coach this time was a hard core volleyball player. She’s been playing for 30 years (and she’s not much older than that). She also played college ball.

She was so great working with the girls. It was so good for Emma to have a coach who really wanted the girls to learn how to play correctly and well. She worked hard on getting them to have 3 hits each time.

Emma loves playing volleyball. It’s so fun to watch her and to see how much she has improved. Go Aces!

 

This was Ben’s first time playing soccer on an actual team. We hesitated signing him up because he doesn’t really like running or being told what to do. :) But he’s been asking to play for a while, so we finally let him. And he was amazing!! He did everything his coaches asked him to do. And he ran hard during the games.

I was worried about all the running because of his weak-ish lungs. I’ve wondered for years if he might have asthma. His breathing is often labored when he runs and/or plays outside. And then he got RSV a year and a half ago, and he seemed even worse after that.

But I think playing soccer has been one of the very best things for him. Both for his physical body and just to be able to be on a team. Hopefully he will want to play again next season. Go Dark Thunder!

Hill Climbing

Digging has begun! Well, not on our basement yet (hopefully this week some time). But it has started (and is actually mostly finished) on our friends/soon-to-be neighbors basement. Which means, all of their basement dirt got dumped onto our lot.

And since they are putting in an extra large kind of basement, that means an extra lot of dirt piled up!

So one Saturday we all went over to play on the dirt piles.

I think it’s hard to look at the pictures and get a good idea of just how tall the dirt is piled. But you can see it’s probably 3 times as tall as me.

Next to our van you can see how big the excavator(?) is that they had to use to dig the basement.

The piles really were as tall as the neighbors two story houses.

Anyway, we had a lot of fun climbing and sliding down the dirt. Some of the neighbor kids came over to join us too for a while too.