The Holidays

We had a very Merry Christmas. We had Christmas Eve at my house with my sister and her family and my mom. I made roast beef and we had potatoes, gravy, ham, cheese tray, etc... Had tons of left overs! Either we need to cook less food or have a bigger family! Guess we should cook less food.

Dakota says he had the best Christmas ever. He's only 10 remember. He got a ipod touch which he wanted sooooo very badly! Jordan got money from us since he's at that hard to buy for age. He went shopping and got what he wanted which was mostly clothes.

Speaking of Jordan, I have to brag for a minute. Jordan is a freshman in high school and plays basketball. He was playing strictly on the B team which was a joke. He has worked hard and managed to move up to the A team and become the starting point guard! We have been so proud of him. With high school sports comes a lot of "political" crap. Joel and I kept quiet and said nothing to the coach or other parents and Jordan has worked his butt off in practice to show the coach he has what it takes to be a starter and it's payed off for him.

Kota played a tournament in Bloomington over the weekend and did well but they didn't advance to the championship round. His normal travel team's league starts after the first of the year. He is on a really good team and loves to play for the Streator Heat!

Not sure what's planned for New Year's Eve but no matter what I do as long as I'm with the love of my life, Joel, and with my boys it will be a great night. Happy New Year to all! Here are some pics from Christmas 09.

Stolen Shoes

Once again Jordan got another thing stolen! He had his first high school basketball game last night and in the two hour time span someone stole his $115 shoes out of his locker! We bought them for him about a month ago as "practice" shoes so he didn't have to wear his "game" shoes to practice. The practice shoes where much more expensive than the game shoes and obviously another boy saw that and decided he would like to have them and not work for them or have his OWN PARENTS BUY THEM FOR HIM!!! I am so fed up with people stealing from us!!!

Joel went to the Dean of Students today to tell him about it cause his coach was useless in the matter. The Dean said he would let the police know and do some digging around of his own but I'm not holding my breath that they will be found or anything will get done.