A New Experience

Megan has been asked to be on the girls' basketball team at a local Christian school. She's played Upwards basketball for the past four years, three of them with the same coach. We have become good friends with her coach, whose daughter is the same age as Megan. This is Coach's first year of coaching at this school and since they were short on players, he asked the principal of the school if he could invite Megan on the team, even though she was home schooled. The principal allowed that request, giving Megan a great opportunity to play a sport that she loves in another great environment! We are thankful for this avenue that God opened up in her life! (This principal has been a patient of Alex's and I have visited with him before in the office. It's such a small world. He even came up to me before the game tonight and introduced himself again to me and was glad to have made the connection on who Megan was.)
Coach's pep talk before the game.

They've had a few weeks of practice and tonight was their first game. The ending score was a whopping 40-2. Alex closed the office an hour early so he could make Megan's first game. He arrived at the end of the first quarter and was able to see the rest of the game, in which Megan played portions of.

On defense.

Bringing the ball up the court.

Once again, I truly delight in watching the girls play! It is so neat to see their improvement and development in skill and coordination from year to year. She handled the ball well and had several nice drives in the lane. She even made a basket in the 4th quarter! At the dinner table tonight, Megan was telling us how when she was dribbling the ball and all the players moved out of the lane with their opponents, "it was like I was wide open." I think she was even amazed at the level of play these girls have learned and are now performing!

We'll keep you posted on how the season goes......so I hope you'll bear with us! :)

~Wee

New Rooms, New Looks

The week before the girls and I went to my parents for a week back in October, we switched some rooms around. The girls went from sharing one room on the main floor to Megan having her own room and Grace and Leah sharing a room. They were excited to move upstairs and into their "new" rooms. Over the course of this week, we finished the project -- we painted.

We chose bright colors for Grace and Leah's room. The exciting part was that we were able to use things we had here around the house. The only purchase (besides paint) was the tulle for the windows. It's always helpful to keep costs down!

This room brings back memories of my childhood :) I also had a yellow room (though a bit lighter), the two lamps were what Tess and I each received for birthday gifts years ago, and the comforter on the bed is what my Grandma Broquard pieced together.
Liking their new room!
Megan chose chocolate and pink for her room colors. We used an entire gallon of paint, needing three coats, on the two chocolate walls alone. Now that it's done though, we love the results.

We also painted the bathroom upstairs, which will obviously see more use now that the girls sleep up there.
We've been in the house for five years now, and this is the first project we've done on the upper level. It's exciting for me to finally be "doing something" as far as decorating up there! I've waited a long time for this!

~ Wee

Round #1 Done

Today was an exciting day for Megan. Just shy of two years ago, she got her first round of braces on, and today was the removal date. She and I were up and out of the house for her 7:30 a.m., appointment. This is the last breakfast she had to eat with her braces on.

After the brackets were all removed, Dr. Cohen scraped off the glue residue and polished up her teeth.

Her beautiful smile!

~Wee