Ve's BB season

"Well done ladies, 21-7 overall (Including 15-1 over the last 5 tournaments) for the season for this wonderful and hard working group of girls!  Just remember players, "you are never there" meaning you can always improve on your individual and team game." quote from Ve's head BB coach. Well said and it was a good season. Her team won the last 4 tournaments, but then nearly half the team came down with the flu, but oh it was so worth it!! :)

Some Science Olympians I had worked with this year

We placed 14th out of 29 teams and we competed in 18 out of 23 events. This was only our second year and we had 10 members, still 3 short of the maximum number..We have so much potential, it is exciting to see how it will turn out in the years to come.

This weekend

Very busy once again. Tuki debuted in her first play and performed in 3 shows and Ve's team once again won their BB tourney this weekend. Mim are struggling A LOT......I am beginning to understand why some families choose to disrupt the adoptions...too upset to say more at this time.

Busy weekend

Friday:play practice for Tuki, BB practice for Ve, BB scrimmage for Tuki
Saturday: all day back to back BB tournaments
Sunday: shopping for the week and laundry






Girls showing support for Joe Pavelski,USA HOCKEY OLYMPIC HOCKEY TEAM, he attended school in our school district, my junior high school and high school.

 Mim and Ve waiting while Tuki gets ready to play scrimmage for the girl's varsity BB game Friday night.

 Tuki and her first trophy from a BB tournament

 Tuki making a pass

 I like this one, Tuki taking a break during their championship game while Ve above with her team is watching and waiting for their tournament to begin..nice sister support

 Ve blocking

 Grandma's presence all day for all 7 games

 Celebration later at Bill's Pizza

Zambo looking cute yet all grown up

Our buddy Smurph

Smurph was euthanized today, just too much irreversible damage to his liver and hind legs. The vet thought at best he had a few weeks left, but they would have unpleasant weeks...RIP buddy!! As you can see he was quite active in our lives..

Not good

Smurph's blood work shows high numbers that reveal a damaged liver. The vet is waiting for one more piece of information before we decide what to do, but if Smurph doesn't start using his hind legs by Thursday, then we will have to let him go because I don't believe in keeping an animal alive if they can't eat, drink or are able to walk...it just isn't a good life, rather I believe in releasing them from the life of pain and indignity...but it won't be easy..he's my buddy over all the other cats....rough week ahead..

Hard times

A note to remember due to the extreme cold..-40 to -50 these last two days and 2 weeks ago, students have not had a full week of school since the week before Christmas...hard to believe.

Smurph had another seizure yesterday, he now has limited use of his back legs. The vet thinks a blood clot moved during the seizure. His heart sounds fine so blood was drawn and they will let me know later today as to what is going on. Apparently it is not good if they begin to seizure after they are 5 years old, and he is and the vet isn't sure if his back end weakness will recover...so we wait.

I have also turned down our house temp to 60 to help us from using up the 300 gallons of LP we have left before it warms up..wish us luck!!