Volleyball....Not Such A Great Day

So the O-Town Club volleyball team played in Kennewick today. They didn't have such a great day; they didn't have such a good day. Maybe it's because they haven't been playing together but at practices. They definitely should do better next time.....let's hope! Nowhere to go but UP!!

I like this picture...it's blurry everywhere but at Paxton. The girls played "in the pit" at Kennewick HS. They were down below and all of the spectators were up above.

Each team takes a turn doing lines and scorekeeping. Here we are.

This is us in the consolation bracket. The only good thing about not doing well was our day got over at 3:00 instead of 8:00.

Our next tournament is at Treaty Rock in Post Falls 2 Sunday's from today. Hopefully practice will go well and a few things will get ironed out.

Rainy Saturday

Kyle went to work today at Boise Cascade and I started watching Clear Color (the photo editing video from Erin Cobb). I am totally amazed at how easy she makes it look. I haven't tried any of my pictures yet; am just going to watch it a couple of times and soak in all I can. Then give it a try. I have no doubt that it will take more than my BASIC knowledge of taking photos, let along editing photos to start getting the hang of things. The number of pictures I take is going to have to increase and I am going to have to start taking things a little more serious. THEN I may be able to be a decent photographer.....someday! I have plenty of time. Going to take things slow so I don't become too frustrated too quickly.

This afternoon I went and made a couple of ATC cards. I bought a kit from Donna Downey and am just goofing off with them. Hers all use specific colors and stamps that I don't have and am not going to go out and purchase. They are turning out just fine with what I have on hand. A nice way to relax. Here are a couple of pictures of my table top:

Direct TV and FOX have split the sheets and Direct TV no longer carries the channel. Unfortunately all the playoff football games are unable to be viewed! This just bites. We are going to have to come up with one of those tv boxes so we can see our local channels.

Tomorrow Paxton will play volleyball inKennewick. I am looking forward to watching volleyball again. Hopefully things will go well for their team. Should be interesting.

Spending the Weekend at Grandma and Grandpa's

Emma and Mattie get to spend the weekend at grandma and grandpa's house! Kara and Eric are in Hawaii so the girls get a vacation also.

Moving their stuff from my car to Jan's. Weekend fun, here they come!

Mabton school lost electricity today so we switched venues for the basketball games tonight. I filled in for one of the ticket takers so got to see some of the games. Once that got over I am ready to be on vacation time myself! NO school until Wednesday!! YEAH!!

Wrestling For First In League

This morning we woke up to black ice on roads in the northwest part of Franlin County, which translated into a 3 hour school delay. Whenever we have these unplanned, disrupted days, they ususally turn into crazy days at school. Today was no exception. I had a webcast/conference call at 9:30 and it was crazy from then on. There were also attendance appeals today for those kids in trouble with attendance and credits. That ties up 5 of our office people and that means more work for the 2 of us left. It's ok, just hectic.

Our wrestlers were wrestling for League Champs tonight against Ki-Be. We ended up losing 36-30. There were some exciting matches. It was what they call a dual match, with Ki-Be, Connell, Riverview and Burbank all coming for matches. Connell wrestled Ki-Be and Riverview. They beat Riverview easily.

Here's a couple of shots of our favorite wrestler (-:

Ryan wins with a pin.

Ryan waiting for his second match.

Jacob won his matches. Here he is thanking the ref.

Ryan during his second match against a kid from Riverview.

He pinned him! Good job!

Pay Phone

You don't see pay phones very often anymore, if at all! This one sits outside the front door of the high school. I don't think it works anymore. I can remember phone booths! Those are extremely rare, at least around our parts! I guess I just wanted to take a picture of this to keep a part of history....ok. Enough!

The big snow storm we were suppose to get last night came and went without being too big of a pain. We did get maybe 2 inches of snow around here but that's about it. We didn't get the freezing rain which was suppose to come also so that was a bonus.

I was in charge of the Wednesday girls meeting tonight. Kyle helped me out big time by having dinner done for me when I got home. He took Kyle and Nick and went to have pizza in town. The spaghetti and meatballs were great.

Briar texted me tonight asking me if I knew that a small bottle of Tide cost $15.00!! Outrageous! My response: "wait until you have to buy it for a family!" Love these real world lessons!!

Happy Birthday, Nicholas!

Today Nicholas turned 16 years old! Happy Birthday!!!!
We sang Happy Birthday had cake and he got to see what his presents were. I can't say that I am a great wrapper of presents, especially as the kids get older. He did get a duffle bag and got to "unzip" it to find all his other presents inside. He was thinking that the duffle bag was it but after we convinced him to check inside the duffle bag, he was pleasantly surprised to find several other things waiting for him, including a couple of packs of Pokemon cards.

Here he is actually unzipping the bag and getting a look inside! His sister called him tonight which was a big bonus. 16 years old! Wow! Where does the time go?????

Excitement!!

I have always followed Karen Russell's blog. She is a photographer/blogger/scrapbooker from Oregon. She takes fantastic pictures and I took a class from her on-line a couple of years ago when I got my Canon camera. A couple of months ago she blogged about a photographer named Erin Cobb, whom she paid to come and teach her her photography and also some editing. Well, I started following Erin's blog, because what is good for Karen should also be good for Jennifer! Erin has decided to put together a video of how she edits her photos and I just bought it and downloaded the 'class'. I am so excited to see if I can really get it to work for me. It involves using PhotoShop so that is a big intimidating. I just ordered a couple of "Photoshop For Dummies" books from the library. Maybe with the 4 day weekend coming up I can get some time by myself, in front of the computer and get down to some awesome photo editing techniques! Wish me luck!!

This morning it was a bit hard to get up and get going. Once it started though, the day went by. I am randomly cleaning up cobwebs here and there, putting stacks of papers away, and getting some home decor back up in some blank spots left from Christmas in anticipation of the Wednesday Girls meeting here at my house this Wednesday.....uh the day after tomorrow!

Auburn is beating up on Oregon now in the Fiesta Bowl. I am rooting for the hometeam but it doesn't look good. At least it's not Florida, Texas or Ohio playing AGAIN for the championship!