Sydney's Basketball

So after a lot of begging and pleading and promising she wouldn't give it up, we let Sydney join basketball this year. (We had a long talk with her about dedication to something you want to do after the whole violin debacle.) She plays for North Perry, and has been having practices since November, but they just recently started playing games against the other teams. She loves it, and is really good at it, so it is a lot of fun to watch her. Tonight she had a game in Port Orchard at Sedgwick Junior High against the South Kitsap team. Above is a picture of her getting ready for her game. Below is pictures of her in action. She's #20.
They won, yay! It is so super exciting to see my big baby girl doing something she loves. She's growing into such a wonderful young lady.

Elks HoopShoot

*WARNING - PROUD MOM MOMENT*

If you don't know what the HoopShoot is here is the link to the website for it. Basically, it's been going on since 1972 and it's just a friendly nationwide competition that the Elks host to see who can shoot the most free throws in the appropriate age division. Yes, you get awards and such, and it can be a pretty big thing if you make it to Nationals, but it all starts at the childs school. That's where my oldest daughter comes in. This year, Sydney who is in 6th grade, beat all the other girls in her age group at her school in the Elks HoopShoot. So, that meant she got to go to Ridgetop to compete against all the other local schools. She did great. She shot 10 out of 25. She placed third. The two other girls ahead of her shot 11 out of 25 and 12 out of 25, so she was right there with them. Unfortunately, she doesn't get to move on (they only take the top 2) but she thought the experience was awesome. It was so fun to watch. I don't remember ever doing this when I was in school, nor have I heard anything about it from my kids in the previous years. Anyways, here are some of her shots I took pictures of.

She did so good. I'm so proud of her!

Happy New Year

2011!!!! Happy New Year and New Decade!

For Grandma, Grandpa & James....

Here's the things they got today when we went to the store. I thought you might like to see them. Sydney's shoes are the same ones. They still had 2 pairs left.

They are all smiles!

Thank you Grandma Shawna, Grandpa Dennis, and James!

Gingerbread House

Here's the pictures of the girls and Andy making the gingerbread house last week. It was officially eaten today, partly by the dog..... Anyways they really enjoy doing this every year. I'm starting to think Andy likes it more than they do. He's the one who kept pestering me to let them do it. :o)

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Christmas 2010

The tree was trimmed and full of presents underneath.....

The Stockings were full and hung by the chimney with care......

The girls were tired, but ready to open gifts.

With presents in hand, the fun commenced.

Sydney....

Kassie....

and Madeline all enjoyed opening their gifts!

Then came the big one...

A NEW TV for each of them!!!

Then the thank yous......

and the stockings with the boys!

Merry Christmas from the Happy Ketter Family!

Kassie's Christmas Choir Concert & Santa

So Kassie, my little performing artist, had her Christmas concert last night. They sang all the traditional holiday songs, and afterwards they handed out hot cocoa to wash down the goodies they were selling at the bake sale. How quaint. Then after that, Santa Clause came out and all the little boys and girls (who wanted to) got to sit on his lap and tell him how they wanted to clear out Mommy and Daddy's bank account what they wanted for Christmas.

Madeline and Santa

Kassie and Santa.

Sydney did not want to participate in the joy of Santa. She was all "Bah Humbug." Guess she's too old now. Hmmm, I wonder if she'll get what she wants then.....