Shooting Lessons with Papa

Softball Champs!

Congrats to Churchland Lady Dragons, Emma's softball team! They got 1st place in the regular season & went undefeated in the end of season tourney!

Michael Collar Bone

Thursday night, Michael fell out of a golf cart while playing at Ryan's and has re-broken his collar bone. He broke the callous that had developed over the first break and part of the newly formed bone. I took him to the ER Friday night to make sure there were no sharp points b/c it has swollen so much. (We didn't go Thursday b/c he said it didn't hurt & it wasn't swollen.)
So we now start over.
This is why we call him Crash.

Amish Country

Chocolate World was AWESOME!!!

One day, I will go with the kids. I promise.

The White House!

from the car...

Emma's 12!!!

Happy Birthday

Happy (be-lated) 60th Birthday Nana!!!

Happy 60th Birthday Papa!!!

Perfect Attendance for the Year!

Michael received his certificate for having perfect attendance for his 4th grade year! Yes, he even went to school for several hours the day after he broke his collar bone (on meds) just so he wouldn't mess up his attendance up. We told him he didn't have to go, but he wanted to. We are very proud of him for wanting to do this.

Vader

Vader is an 11 week old Beagle. Please pray for the dog as he enters the ever loud, ever confusing, ever busy home.

Broken Collar Bone

Michael broke his collar bone last night at his soccer pool party playing football. He is in a sling and is going to the ortho doc Monday.

First Place!!!!

Michael's team finished first place in their u-10 divison this season. Wish Michael luck as he goes to try outs in 2 weeks to see if he makes the team again for the fall season!

So Much Going On!

Ok. We have had so much going on, I forgot to post update on what is going on!
Emma finished volleyball season on March 28th with a dreadful game. Not going into detail, except to say it wasn't a good day.

Michael's soccer team won FIRST place in their U-10 Bronze division. With the final game for the season on April 5th. Tomorrow, we travel to Concord to Frank Liske Park for the First Strike Tournment. First game is at 10:30, so Michael needs to go to sleep now (i just heard him bounce around in his room). Then on April 25th, his team will travel to Winston for the Beat the Heat tourney being played at the Sara Lee Fields.

Emma is now playing softball. Their first game was on the 15th and they won 11-1 (against Arcadia) and tonight they beat Welcome 11-2. She played well both nights getting on base, scoring 1 tonight and was left on 3rd Wednesday as the 3rd out came before she could run. She also stole 2nd & 3rd tonight. She is having a blast on the Lady Dragons.

Joey is doing well, he isn't participating in anything other than band at school. Occassionally, he will leave his room for food but not much more than that. We visited TEACCH (www.teacch.com)in GSO to see if they could help us any & at the moment I am filling out papers so he can be put on a waiting list. TEACCH is for kids and adults that fall under the Autism spectrum.

Unfortunately, due to us running so much, I don't check email often enough at the moment, so if you need us, you can call or text me at 336-470-4737 or jamey at 336-240-3455 or emma at 336-240-4283 (Easter Bunny got her a boost mobile cause I was tired of her using mine.)
Time for bed, I will post pics later - or you can visit my Picasa Albums online @ http://picasaweb.google.com/jameymande

The Twilight Saga

So, Edward and the rest of the Cullens have come to visit and Jacob isn't far behind.

Nikki, Angie, Chrislin - will we all fight to be a Bella? or is there enough Edward for all of us?

Emma READ faster!!!!!

Nikki - I finished last night.

2nd Place Overall!!!

Improvement every tourney! The Wolverines played their hearts out yesterday. For a total of 5 games played, they won 4 of them. Beginning at 9am and finishing at 6pm, they worked hard.

#1 in Pool Play!!!!!

WAY TO GO WOLVERINES!!!!! Emma's volleyball team placed #1 in their pool play yesterday. Awesome accomplishment for these girls! Can't wait to see how they improve when we travel to Fayetteville on February 21st.

Placed 2nd in Pool Play!!!

Emma' s team placed 2nd in their pool during the tourney at Barber Park in Greensboro yesterday!!! The beat FC Firecrackers in 3 games (25-23,19-25,15-11) and the Cape Fear Typhoons in 2 games (25-10, 25-23) to get into second place. They were only beat by the Brick City Embers (25-15,25-16)which were the first place team. Unfortunately, they will not get to play the Embers again because the Embers are moving from the Silver level to the Gold level in play.

This is completely awesome do to that these girls have only been playing together since November! They lost in the semi-final to a team from the Durham area. The team had better servers, but that is all. The girls played their hearts out & work well together as a team.

The DCVA Wolverines are 9 middle school girls from 5 middle schools - Tyro, North, Central, Ledford and North Davie.

1st Tourney - Salem College

For being on a team that Emma is the only one who has ever played J.O., they did extremely well yesterday and only one girl on the team is 13 - the rest are 11 & 12 playing other 13 year olds. The played 3 sets. The first set they lost 2-0 (25-17, 25-15), the second set they lost (25-11, 25-9) and the third set the lost 2-1 (26-24, 25-17, 15-8). These girls have nothing to be ashamed about. They played as a team, had fun and learned more about the game. They even had the Brick City Embers cheering for them in their 3rd set!

The picture is of Emma getting ready to serve.
She plays again January 24 at Barber Park in GSO. If you are interested in watching a game, just let us know. We arrive at 8 am to be ready to play by 9 am, but she may not play until 11. Weird schedules!

Joey's 13!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas!