The days leading up to Christmas

It has been a busy few days since my mom and sister showed up on Tuesday. We have spent many hours already baking yummy cookies and preparing all of our goodies for Christmas Day dinner. My brother, Jeff, and his family as well as my step sister, Becky, and her husband will be joining us. It will be a full household. I LOVE IT! I sure hope I have a seat for everyone! Humm, I think the boys can sit on the floor to eat. haha! Just teasing guys!

Here are pics from this week and some from today. The boys coerced me to open one of their presents TWO days early!

The boys and the doggers...


The boys and the doggers...take two.


Nathan being a goofball again! He is wearing his new hoodie from Mema.


Matthew cannot be outdone by his big brother! He too is wearing a new shirt from Mema.


Somehow we ended up with the blue and gold theme so Mom wanted to take a few pics. I was a slob after blowing leaves earlier in the day with Matthew but Mom would not take no for an answer.


Yep...they DO love each other!


We went for a drive to hunt for outrageous Christmas lights but came up pretty short. Thanks to my bro we did see this yard. It was filled with over 50 maybe 60 blow up decorations. It was pretty great. We kept wondering what their electric bill is!!


Nathan got an up close and personal pic with Santa in a bi-plane.


See? I told you! They love each other...


Okay....so maybe they love each other less right now. Actually they said "let's play fight!" I kept imagining me running to the ER with one of them today.


Gracie is very tired after the days cooking activities. She and Sophie stayed at my feet nearly all day today...because I was COOKING! I succumbed and gave them some ham.


May all of you have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS. I wish you wonderful dreams tonight of sugar plum fairies and all that is good in this world.

BBall Update

I am a bit behind in posting about Matthew's basketball team so here goes...

Matthew has a new coach this year...an actual basketball coach versus a teacher trying to coach or a football coach coaching basketball. Not to fault past coaches but the coach this year indeed knows how to coach the boys on learning plays and how to improve what they are doing wrong in a game. Matthew is having a BLAST.

Carver sponsors a pre-season tourney just before Thanksgiving and that started out a little rough with a loss but then one the second game against Gable.

(Nate hugging Matthew after their loss.)


Regular season is coming along REALLY well.

Matthew is playing awesome and you can tell he is at home on the court. He has started each game and gets a fair amount of play time. He is doing well on assists and has a few steals under his belt as well!

Beat Ewing 73-55 (7 pts)
Beat Whitlock 47-22 (2 pts)
Beat Granard 54-45 (4 pts)
Beat McCracken 42-37 (7 pts) This was a HUGE win for us as they are our cross town rival!

Carver is now 4 - 0! Woo Hoo. Go Wildcats.