Birthday and Basketball

Am I on a roll, or what? This makes something like two posts in a week. I've got to start thinking about dialing this back a little before I end up using up the whole internet!

This week we had Andrea's birthday and Claire had another basketball game-- hence the catchy title for this entry. Tomorrow I am going shooting (the gun kind) with Curt Baumgartner. I am planning on taking the camera, so I hope to include a few pics of that in the next post. I'm pretty stoked on the shooting. It's been a while since I've had a chance to do it-- what with the ongoing gun ban in our house. I think the last time was when I blew away my old cell phone with a .44 magnum. What a treat that was! I still have the remains of that piece of junk in a baggie somewhere.

One last thing... I am interested in finding out about how many people are actually looking at this blog. If you could do me a favor and leave a comment on this post (it can even be anonymous) I should have a better idea. Thanks for doing that-- unless you don't. In case you don't, be sure you don't feel guilty for too long. Maybe like 20 or 30 seconds, or something. I don't want to ruin your day over it or anything like that.



Here are Gigi and Poppy at Andrea's birthday party. They ended up staying late into the night playing Andrea's new "Ticket To Ride" board game. Poppy was so stoked for winning that he probably never slept that night!



Here is Phia doling out one of her generous hugs to Grandpa.



The three candles are for past present and future.



Everybody patiently waiting for cake and ice cream.



Jolie had a good time at the party.



This is a girl named Emily. She is on Claire's basketball team. It's kind of random, but I liked the shot. Using a long lens at short distances, it can be a challenge to keep the ball in frame during a shot. Hence, the inclusion of this one.



Claire had good game. We worked on using her pivot foot and avoiding double dribbles after the last game and she did a great job on both fronts for this game. Although her team lost, it was a fun game to watch. It was the first overtime game of the season and the crowd was really into it!