Monday, March 2, 2009

Babies, Basketball, and Bonus Brothers

Even though I usually post pictures on my picture blog, I thought I would make an exception. This weekend I spent a lot of time on the road and got to see basketball, babies and my bonus brothers.

Basketball


This is a shot from the second floor of our school before the playoff/send off pep rally for our girls basketball team, state swimming qualifiers and state wrestler.

This is our girls basketball team...pretty and pretty awesome. They lost in the regional finals, one game out from the state tournament. It was harsh. But...it happens. Most of our swimmers placed, including a pretty awesome freshman. And our wrestler got second in her weight class.

Babies
In between watching basketball in Austin (see pictures below) and Waco (see pep rally above) I got to see my friend Robin and her two sweet girls...Tyler (23 months) and Dylan (4 months).







Bonus Brothers... I got to hang out with the Netsch boys and one of the Land boys while I was in Austin to watch Taylor's senior night game.


I wish I could write about these kids and do justice to their senses of humor, intelligence and pure love for one another. You can't see Kristen on the far left but she's a cutie! Nick is the oldest (glasses), Marcus is the middle child (3rd of 4) and Lucas is the 2nd oldest. They really do make me laugh so much!




Even though you can't see his face (I'll post a clear one below), this is one of my favorite pictures of Taylor. He's so unassuming and humble and just an amazing guy. He was looking down while all of his stats were being read. That's just the way he is. Please pray for him. This was at the game on Thursday, he proceeded to play baseball on Friday (yep, 2 sports at the division 2 level, graduating with a 4.0 in may...really), and break his arm badly enough to warrant surgery during Saturday night's game. Please pray for strength and healing. He's got a good grip on his life, spiritually and otherwise, but it can't be easy to have the thing you love taken away from you before you were quite finished with it (their team will be in the playoffs and he was seriously considering a tryout with a European team). Love him to pieces.


1 comment:

The Oakey's said...

you are such a good supporter! I can't believe that you still are so close to those guys. If I never said thank you for all you have done for me....thanks! You truly are an amazing person!