Pond Hockey Salmon Style

Marky's team had the game for 7th place today vs. the other Sun Valley team - white and it ended in a tie 1-1. The refs said there was to be a five minute overtime but Sun Valley coaches declined, not sure how they think that was fair and Markus was disappointed but what can you do? He hopped over to the pond where we played for another two hours before heading home. It was a beautiful day and a fun way to end the trip to Salmon!

No Salmon

Went to dinner tonight at the Shady Nook and they were completely out of Salmon. Marky's face looked so disappointed - he has been talking about eating salmon in Salmon for weeks!

Salmon River Walk

Went for a walk along the frozen salmon river today in between games. It was so beautiful and cold.

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Marky's team played great even though they lost in their third game today against the Idaho Hawks. 7-0 - they weren't even bummed but instead hopped off the ice and on to the pond next to the rink. I'll write more later. Off to get Markus off the pond. :) He is the last one off! Of course. He LOVES it!!!

Good Morning Salmon Hockey!

Sunrise hockey game

Lightning vs. Sun Valley Suns

Obsessions

My oldest son loves video games. He loves them so much that he turned his sixth-grade country project from “Japan” to “The History of Video Games in Japan.” When he was in fourth- grade I swept his room for his DS and Wii games before he went to bed, but often would still find him in the morning with the handheld game clutched to his chest (yes, I needed to be more creative about hiding places). About nine years ago I was studying vocabulary words with him. “What’s an estate?” I asked. My son looked at me blankly. I gave an example to help him out, “Luigi’s Mansion” is an estate– a big house with lots of land.” Pretty soon we were relating every vocabulary word on the list to some aspect of Super Mario Bros. and within ten minutes my previously reluctant kid had the words memorized and could use them all in sentences.

I see the same tendencies in myself– I am serious when it comes to obsessions. For a long time I read everything I could about pregnancy, childbirth, and child development. When I stopped having babies, I flung myself into scrap booking and then blogging (charting my page views obsessively) and learning about running, reading dozens of books about how to improve my times. I’d go to bed thinking about running, wake up thinking about running, and think about running when I was running.

These days, I still run, but I’ll do just about anything not to think about it when I’m doing it. My first preference is to run with friends, but if I can’t drag anyone else out, I listen to music.

My same oldest son, Morgen, started working last Friday at a little Mexican restaurant down the street. He went in to apply on Tuesday, was called back for an interview on Thursday, and hired for Friday! He works Friday and Saturday nights now. Since he has a job - he also wanted to buy his first car. A silver Honda Accord that he found online, after much searching and researching - for a mere $4,000. He didn't have enough money saved up from tutoring and babysitting for the down payment, so he decided to take all of the before mentioned and much loved video games down to the local video game store to sell them. He filled up my laundry basket and two large bags full of games and accessories and I took him down there. The video gamer guy had never seen that extensive of a collection. An hour later and he had successfully traded in over two hundred video games. And was now ready to put his down payment on his car. His obsession with video games has not ended, just his collection of them has.  

I (heart) Girl Night

Some photos from the project Nicole planned for girl night this month at her house after we had dinner at Porcupine Grill.

Hockey and more

{Lightning Squirt B vs. Grizzlies B}

{Markus helped his team win 1-0!}

Who has a better memory?

{Science Fair Project}

Markus wanted to test out who has better memory skills, boys or girls, for his science fair project this year. Here is his report:

purpose:




I chose my project because I wanted to see who has a better memory in my class, boys or girls.



Method & Materials:




I used an ipad with a memory game on it, and my classmates.



Here’s how I performed the experiment:



1. I had each student play the memory game on the ipad.



2. Each student had touch and remember which colors were shown on the game in order.



3. Each student got a score for how many colors they could remember.



4. I averaged the scores for the boys and girls.


Conclusion:




The test numbers were so close but I think that the boys in my class have better memories.



My hypothesis was proven false.

Baseball?

It seems a little early for baseball - it's never to early to start spring training indoors I guess?!

Max has been practicing for the past few weeks with his Tribe baseball team to start getting ready for the season ...

Grizz Cup - Game 4

Grizz Cup - Game # 3

Grizz Cup - Game #2

{Silly Markus, Max, and Jake}

Lightning Vs. Team Wyoming

{Max played his heart out and was awarded the games MVP}

{He was pretty excited!}

{Markus was of course there to cheer him on, in his jersey, and with his friend Patch!}