project 365

november 3

On Halloween day, Keaton and I ran to the grocery store to get some last minute trick or treat candy, dry ice and some festive balloons for our party that night.  I bought a bouquet of balloons that were already together at the check stand.  As we were leaving, two of the balloons came loose from their strings and floated to the top of the store ceiling.  Keaton was so distressed that I went over to the floral shop and had her blow up two more balloons.  Well, she was kind enough to blow up an extra balloon for us for our trouble.  Keaton is so funny though and made a comment about how we already had that particular design.  I shushed him and told him she was being kind and to accept the balloon and be grateful.  As I was putting everything in the car, that particular balloon was not hooked into the strings securely like the other balloons and it escaped out the back before I even realized it.  That orange balloon looked so cool against the brilliant blue sky that I had to take a picture.  I told Keaton that it was never meant to go home with us.  It was meant to go to heaven for Justin to wish him a Happy Halloween.

november 2

When a basketball team wins a AAU tournament, they don't get a trophy, ribbon or medal.  They get exclusive tee shirts with the name and year of the tournament.  The boys goes nuts over them too!  You'd think they were given a million bucks.  Whoever came up with that concept and then sold the idea to a group of teenage boys was a heckuva salesperson!  Brilliant! Genius, even!  Trophies just collect dusk and take up space on a shelf. But a cool t-shirt, is worn and loved for years.  Keaton is the unofficial mascot for Jacek's team, so whenever possible, he gets the medium-sized shirt because it's too small for the other boys.  He thinks he's part of the team and is really cool like his big brother!

november 1

This weekend Jacek's Pump N Run team were playing in the AAU Halloween tournament against JV players.  I'm pleased to announced that for the second straight year Jacek's team with Cory's coaching won the tournament.  It was a three way tie, so they determined the winner by the point differential of the games played.  We won by a pretty big margin because we only lost the last game by 5 points and had won a previous game by 10-12 points.  This will be the last tournament that Pump N Run plays together until spring.  Everyone is playing with their respective high schools, so they can't play on club teams until after the state tournament in March.  Pictured from left to right: Coach Eric, Bryce, Dayon, Todd, David, Jacek, Jeremy, Coach Cory and Stephen.