Thanksgiving

I hope that everyone had a fun Thanksgiving. We enjoyed the day even though it was a little weird not spending it with family. We went over to the Rubich home and spent the day with them. She teaches at the same school as Abram. Reagan loves playing with their little boy Michael. After diner we took some family photos. Reagan didn't understand why he was supposed to sit still or why I didn't want him playing in the pile of dirt. He didn't cooperate very well. We ended up getting a few photos that worked. The last photo has the Rubich family in it also.

Something to make you laugh

One afternoon, I put Lauren down for a nap and decided to do the dishes. Claire was playing in the family room while I was cleaning. After a while I noticed it was completely silent. I am sure you all know the feeling. when I couldn't hear Claire anymore I knew she was up to something. she was being sneaky. The first thought that came to my mind was " she better not be upstairs waking Lauren up!" I ran upstairs, opened my door and what I walked in on... well, lets just say I had to turn around and grab my camera. This is what I found.

Hard working girl

With the economy the way it is claire thought she would start working a day job to help out with our finances.

well, actually claire is always getting snacks or treats when she does something good, so for our craft last week we decided to make a money jar. Now when she does something like a chore or something good i just give her some of the change that i never use. i think this is good because it will save on future dentist bills and it teaching her to earn, and save money. when she cleaned her room i used it as a teaching opportunity. i told her how daddy goes to work everyday and he works very hard, and even if its not fun, he does it so that he can buy her special things and so we can live in our house. when cory got home from work that night, she ran up to him and gave him a big hug and said, "thank you for working daddy."

Will you play with me?

Eagles Play Poorly in Lines' Coaching Debut

Last night was my high school basketball coaching debut. April wanted me to point out that her and Reagan were the only white spectators in the gymnasium. Growing up in Arizona and Oregon, I used to think that would mean that you had a phenomenal team. Okay, enough about the diversity of my team and on to our game.... We lost 48-52. It was a great game up and down but my team just turned that ball over and missed too many wide open lay-ups. We played poorly and only lost by 4 so that is a good sign for things to come. My whole approach has been to emphasize the positive with them. They already know what they did wrong so I am approaching it with what they did well and am building our practices around improving in the areas that we did poorly in. With 2:30 left in the game we were down 10 points. I subbed in 5 guards and went to a full-court trap. We went on a 6-0 run but that is as close as we would get. I should have gone to it earlier, but you live and learn. It felt good to be coaching again. Although I must say my legs are a little sore from squatting down on the sideline to go with my pacing back and forth.

Hopefully the 0-1 start is a good sign. My senior year when I coached Caleb's sixth grade basketball team we won our first game and then never won again, hopefully this time it will be reversed.

After Thanksgiving Day Sales

I thought that I would share this website in case anyone was interested. The site has the 2008 Black Friday Sales listed. If you already had some ideas for Christmas but thought you would wait till after Thanksgiving to buy it to see if it would go on sale this site may help you out.

www.TheBlackFriday.com

Mommy's Little Helper

Reagan loves to be his mommy's little helper. Which isn't always helpful. When I do dishes he wants to help. Reagan only knows how to unload the dishwasher. So anytime I am at the dishwasher Reagan is right there helping me unload it. Even if I am trying to load it. On Friday I decided to make pumpkin cake rolls. Reagan decided he needed to be right there helping me. He actually did an ok job. There was a bigger mess than normal but they still turned out good.