Bryce ~ The Basketball Star!

During the half time of the Reese game...Bryce went out for the 3 point shoot! The guy told him to talk 3 big steps forward....cuz he's small. He did, and BAM! SWISH! He was So excited! FREE PIZZA!


What a proud smile!



Proudly showing off his free pizza coupon!


Off to watch a netflix just wanted to post these great pics!
Tootles
~SHERRI~

The Cass River floods Vassar!

Our washing machine died....boo hoo so I was forced to head into Vassar this morning with 8 loads of laundry this morning. I must have been sleeping still and missed the detour signs (I don't think they were there) and had to call Adam when I didn't know how to get across the river in a different spot! I just needed to get across, and down about 2 miles.....but I was blinded by ooogggling at all the water going across the street, that I missed it. I did make it to the laundry mat, then came back into town, and realized coming from that direction, you can easily see the detour signs. I made it across right in town but snapped a few pictures along the way!

The top of a fire hydrant!

This is a "sled" Drew uses for football practice!

Look at the mail boxes! CRAZY!

Some place in Vassar, forgot where I took this one!

This is behind Betty Lou's and the bars!

Parking lot!

Down town!

Parking lot behind Betty Lou's

Another shot of their parking lot!

Parking lot!

After school I gave the boys the option of going home or looking at the flooding in Vassar. They choose to see the flooding. We drove thru and saw more then I did in the morning. The "sled" picture is the football practice field! Bryce said that's just crazy!

Tootles

~SHERRI~

Mercury Spill at Reese = Bryce day off school

Last Thursday at the end of the day, a 3rd grader dropped a baby thermometer in her classroom, and it broke. the mercury came out, so they called the Health Dept. and were told to close the school the next day and had to call in a cleaning company! Bryce didn't have to go to bed at 9pm, but Drew did! Friday Bryce and I hung out in the morning, then about 10am his friend Alex came over to play. They played really good and enjoyed their afternoon alone! They played outside too. I snapped 2 pictures of them. Here they are!

Tootles

~SHERRI~

Drew's 2nd basketball tourney!

This past Saturday Drew had another tournament in Kingston this time. They played at 9am, and won. Drew had 8 points this game! So impressive!. They then had to wait for 2 other games to be played, and they played again. We won again and Drew had 4 points! Then we had to wait for another game, then it was our last game! This last game was so good! It even went into OVERTIME!!! It was tied 30-30 at the end of the game. I don't recall any of his games going into OT before, so we were unsure what happens. They put 2 minutes on the clock and we were off again! We ended up winning in the most exciting game the boys had even played! Most of our parents were standing up and cheering and going crazy on the side lines when we scored and then when we finally won. The final score was 33-30! Drew had 2 points in this game! It was so good. When we left, it was our turn to have the 3 stooges over (Drew, Travis and Mitchell) these 3 have been inseparable for the last 4 - 5 months on weekends! The boys showered then I had to transfer their games over to DVD so they could watch themselves! It was funny listening to them laugh about how someone runs or how mad someone got during a jump ball! Anyways, our Saturday was great!

If anyone is interested in going to their tourneys, here is his schedule!
Feb 21st, in Akron-Fairgrove
Feb 28th, in Kingston
March 7th, in Caro

I don't have times or what schools in these towns yet, but will post if someone is interested! I know "G" is coming home for his game on the 7th! Such a dedicated Grandma! I know Drew loves when family is there and he has improved so much from when he first started!

Tootles
~SHERRI~

Drew's 1st 6th grade basketball tourney!

This past Saturday, Drew had his first basketball tournament as a 6th grader. We were hoping he'd have 1 maybe the weekend before, so "G" and Papa could have made it to a game before they left for AZ, but it wasn't in the cards for them this year. they left very early Saturday morning, so had to hear all about the games via texts and now pictures!

They had 2 "gimmie" games to get the tourney set up! They won both of these games and were seated against the other undefeated team. In their first game, Drew didn't score at all, but did get rebounds. he is one of the taller kids on his team, and actually jumps for them! So impressive! In the second "gimmie" game, Drew had 6 points! In one of his shots, he was fouled and went to the line. he made both of these! I was so impressed!!!

In our first official tournament game, Drew didn't score, although he did try a few times, but he got a lot of rebounds again! We are so glad he actually jumps for the ball, where some other kids don't yet! We won and were 1 of the final 4 teams left! Because the kids are young, they play half court, the opposite way the HS teams play, so 2 games are playing at once. I don't really know how they keep track of who gets knocked out in 4th and who gets 3rd but we got knocked out in this round! It was the BEST game of the day and my poor son worked his little heart out! He jumped for the start of the game.......against a 13 year old 6th grader who was 5' 11"!!! Get this....DREW GOT THE BALL!!! He jumped and the other kid didn't and Drew hit it and passed it to his player! OMG I was going NUTS! I was sooo proud of him. This tall kid on the other team played the whole game except maybe 10 seconds! Poor kid! Drew was also put in A LOT to guard this kid. The times Drew took a break, the other player on his team, suppose to be blocking the tall kid....just didn't do it, so Drew would get put back in! If our kids jumped for the rebounds, we'd get it, because this tall kid just didn't jump. Drew guarded him so well! Drew also scored a few times too! We most certainly didn't lose because of lack of trying, they just played a bit better although it was a very close game! I am so proud of Drew and can't wait til this weekend, when we play again in Kingston! Here are a few pictures. I am hoping to find the cable for my video camcorder, and want to post Drew jumping against this tall kid today too! Here are pictures in the mean time!


At the foul line!




Making his basket!




Sitting on the bench, cheering on his team!

Just an action shot!


Drew~we are extremely proud of you!

Tootles

~SHERRI~

Bryce's birthday party!

I have been so addicted to face book that I haven't posted on here lately. Most of the pictures I put on here today are already on face book, but not everyone that reads this is on FB. Anyways....

Bryce turned the big 7 on Jan. 13th. On Jan 18th we celebrated his big day with lots of family here! Here are some pictures of our fun day!

This was the morning of his actual birthday. Before school he asked if he could open 1 present! This is currently the boys favorite game to play on the play station, and I was so excited to find it for his DS!

"G" bought Drew an electric toothbrush for Christmas, and at that time Bryce didn't want one. NOW he did....LOL He was so looking forward to this too! He's so goofie.

I attempted to try something different for his cake this year! I looked into this a bit on the computer and really wanted to see if I could do it. What ya think?!?!

Bryce also helped put the licorice to complete the soccer ball! He LOVED it. It was a surprise to him. Here he is about to blow out his candles!

My cousin Tracy's daughter LOVES boys and really took to Adam's cousin Kyle. She'd even try to pull his hand down from his face for the pictures! She also gave Kyle's brother Alec a kiss and said "up" to him. he wasn't real sure what to do, and we all laughed. She is such a ham!

Yup, that's Emma in yet another boys arms! She just loves Adam and is always with him. She says she's his girlfriend! lol

This is a bunch of the family surrounding Ainsely! It was funny so I had to take a picture!

A lot of Adam's family hanging out in the living room!

After most of the family left, Adams parents, my parents and my brother and his family stuck around to make pizzas with the left overs from when my store closed and we played the wii. The boys got Raving Rabbits for Christmas. that game is super fun! You have to dance to get points!

This is Devyn, me, Dustin and Bryce getting down! My hair is even flying around!!! I was so hot I had to take my sweater off!

Grandma KayKay, Drew, "G" and Bryce (also sweating and took his shirt off!) Those are some sweet dance moves!

My brother, Doug, Adam and my sis-in-law Tasha again showing off their amazing dance moves!

Grandpa RaRa, Grandma KayKay, Papa, and "G" showing us that they can still get down!

This is the only picture that had all four parents in it. Although I think we are just getting it started since we aren't showing off! We had so much fun!

Tootles

~SHERRI~

up-date post!

Ok, so something happened to the SD part of my computer and I couldn't bring up any pictures....ahhhhh! I chatted with Joe in facebook last night, who had me do a few different things, but I still couldn't get it to work. I ran into Caro today and bought a SD card reader and can now up-load pictures again! I have LOTS I need to post on here, but am waiting for Adam's parents to get here for dinner, then Adam and I are heading to his basketball game, while "G" and Papa stay with the boys and get them ready for bed! Therefore, I will post what I can and add more tomorrow!

This is my cousin Tracy's daughter Gabriella

These next pictures are from my cousin Courtney's baby shower, where I finally got to spend a little time with Mia Schuch...the newest addition to our family!

She fell asleep on my chest! What a sweetheart!

OK, thats all for now! Dinner time!

Tootles

~SHERRI~

I've hit 1 year!

Hard to believe I've been blogging for 1 year tomorrow! I wasn't sure if I started it on Bryce's birthday or a few days before, so I had to go back and look. Tomorrow my baby turns 7! Where the bleep has the time gone?!?! It's unbelievable to me that 7 years ago today I was induced! So crazy!

What's even crazier is that my little buddy Emily Brandt has been gone for 20 years tomorrow. (it may be 19 but I am almost positive it's 20!) Wow I cried a lot today just thinking of where I was 20 years ago, and how it all went down. I think about Emily ALL the time and I miss her more and more every day! She was taken away from us way way too young! 6 years old just isn't fair! Although she was only here for 6 years, she was such an amazing little girl and meant so much to me! She was my buddy and now she watches over my little buddy! She is definitely Bryce's guardian Angel. I sit here right now thinking about how crazy it is that Bryce was born on Jan 13th! Adam and I had tried for about 4 months before I got pregnant and I think it must have taken 4 months for a reason! I know she is watching over him and she will be on his shoulder thru out his life. Although he never got to meet her, she's with him! How I miss her! Tomorrow my brother and I are meeting at the funeral home for an old neighbor who passed away on Saturday (which was Adam's 32nd birthday) Mike Studders R.I.P. I also plan on going to Emily's grave site! It's hard to do this with snow on the ground, because her grave stone sits level with the grass, but just being there where she is on the death of her anniversary will mean a lot to me.

I don't want to end this on a sad note, so I'll end it on a HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY tomorrow BRYCE! I LOVE YOU!

Thanks for letting my pour my heart out. Emily Brandt I miss you more and more all the time and I look at your pictures all the time!
Tootles
~SHERRI~

Up-date on my cousin's husband!

Hi all. I got an e-mail from my Aunt with an up-date on my cousin Kim's husband who has lung cancer. I thought maybe some of you that were keeping them in your prayers would want to know!

This is what she had to say!Dan seems to be doing O.K. The chemo treatments do not make him nauseous, he is blotted and is always tired. He has lost all of his hair and unable to tan his head, looks rather strange. He's always wearing a hat and always has a big SMILE. Yes, he has completely stopped smoking but enjoying a beer once in a while! He will spend next week (Mon. through Fri.) in the Traverse City Hospital again for his third chemo treatment. Kim and Onalee get real lonesome that week and it sounds like he will have to do at least one more treatment for sure. His blood work has been good ( a plus) but we don't know anymore. They said some spots on his lungs have shrunk but he still has many more to go. They may try the Cyber knife next but we don't know where or when.

His wife (my cousin) is pregnant and having a scheduled c-section on March 12th. She has been good so far and is hanging in there. She did just develop Gestational Diabetes but is being closely watch. She will be 43 next month I believe! Anyways, please keep them in your prayers, as it seems to be helping! Thanks guys!
Love ya all!
~SHERRI~

CONGRATS to my little guy!

Just a quick shout out to Bryce for achieving the end of the year AR goal of 50 points, in JANUARY! He gets to go on the end of the year trip with Mr. Grysko! Now he will earn paper money on Fridays and can spend them right away on smaller items, or save them til the end of the school year for a bigger item! Bryce your a crazy reader and we are so proud of you! He's the first in his class to achieve this!