LAX

Not the airport.... The game.... Lacrosse or LAX.

Isaac wanted to try lacrosse.  He had heard some of the kids at the ice rink talking about it.  So I looked them up online, emailed, and found out there is not a league here for his age.  But, they do get together every weekend to play.  So now we need the equipment.  The helmet, shoulder pads, gloves, etc. can cross over from hockey.  But the stick...!!??  I didn't have the free funds to drop $30-$50 for a cheap stick, so Isaac got to rolling.  He called Butch and asked if he could sell cookies again.  Then made a double batch of chocolate chip cookies, did the math himself.  AND, because it was St. Patrick's Day he colored the dough green.  Called them Leprechaun Cookies.  He sold six dozen, close enough that I could help him get a stick.  And off we went to practice.  

They both loved it.  Lexy only played catch with a girl from the ice rink who had been practicing with the girls group.  Now she kind of wants to play.

 Isaac loved the physical nature of the game.  Here he is digging into the group after the ball.

 I don't know how I happened to get these pictures.  Here he is with a clean hit on a kid about the same size as him.

 Then Isaac looking over the damage to see if the kid is alright...

He is way into the LAX now...  Here is a quick video of him digging the ball out of the pile and running it down for a shot.

BAM

We love to visit Books A Million.

Especially now that it has Yogurt Mountain.

Even better is that last week we met our friend Sis Newell there for a visit.

Lexy found a super fun hat to try on...!

Yo No Se

If you know me at all you know that I am a Will Ferrell fan... I must share this one...
 or watch it on YouTube

West Virginia Tornado

Lexy and I were in Lincoln and Wayne Counties the other day for a meeting and made a quick trip over to see the tornado damage in Cove Gap.  Wow.  What a great experience for her to see the damage.  She took most of these pictures.  I have put them in small because I had a hard time weeding out ones that I didn't want to post, please click on them and look at the damage zoomed in.  It looked like Paul Bunion was pissed of and just swinging an ax as he came through.  Trees were snapped off 5 to 10 feet above the ground.  Utility poles were snapped off, wires were laying on the ground.  Roofs ripped off of houses, travel trailers laid in piles of rubble.  It was quite interesting to see.

On of my project in the area had a point of interest at this house.

Lexy had me stop so she could take a picture of these mail boxes.

This one gets it's own caption.  If you look to the far left of the photo you can see a black spot.  That is an office chair with a man sitting in it, On the porch steps it his wife.  Scattered around the porch are the intact items that they have gathered and moved out of the house.  Over the top of the house is a blue FEMA tarp to try and keep what rain they can out of the remaining house.  Scattered up the hill behind the house is the insulation from the attic.  If you look at the from corner nearest the road you can see the roof drain down spout, it's broke off where the elbow would have been attached to meet up with the eves of the house.

 Sad stuff for an already very depressed and impoverished area.

Basketball Pictures

Last weekend Lexy's Basketball Team the CUBS had their team pictures.  I took these with the phone from behind the photographer.

A little dark, but so cute.  Can't wait for the real ones to come.

 They look pro getting set up for the shots...

 Add the coaches and strike a pose.

 Looking good.

 Goofy shot...

 Not too cocky, they did a #1 shot and a #2 shot...

Current record it 7-0.  One week of regular season to go and the tournament.

Pinewood Derby Car 2012

This is Isaac's last year of Pinewood Derby.  I figured the he better have a bigger part in the construction.  So, I set him up with the band saw, drew some lines on the block and got him started.

 We only had one broken saw blade and look at that sweet truck body.

 A coat of primer...

 A coat of red...

 In the rush I still don't have the 'photo shoot' pics of the truck yet... But here is Isaac at the race.

 Setting the truck on the track...

 That race was a squeeker...

The truck didn't do so well on the track.  It raced out pretty well, but I didn't take the time to set up the axles the way I have in the past.  I am certain that if I'd spent the time he would have done better.  Overall good experience.  Check back for more pictures of the truck.

Thank You...!!!

Elder Weiderholt

Elder Weiderholt moved on to Clarksburg, WV.  He was so fun to have around.  At church the other day the grabbed me and said, "We have to come to dinner at your house either Monday or Tuesday.  I am leaving on Wednesday."  So, we lined it up with MUCH help from Bruce. (Thank you Bruce...!!!)

Here is our picture after dinner of our family with Elder Weiderholt and Elder Dumke.  Great guys...!!

Second Breakfast

After the first hockey game at 7:30am on Sunday morning we all went back to the hotels to check out before the next game at 12:30pm.  As such most of the kids had Second Breakfast.

Here are Isaac and Drake enjoying their second breakfast.

This Holiday Inn Express had a pancake machine.  You just push the yellow button in the lower left hand corner of the machine and two minutes later...

Two pancakes spit out the side.

The kids all loved the pancake machine.  I guess the Jetsons don't have much on Holiday Inn.

We stopped by Barns and Noble to grab some books.  Isaac got the third book in the Skeleton Creek series.  Lexy got the Big Book of Girl Stuff.  As we were checking out we saw a display of fake mustaches. They were calling our name, so we bought a box.  Here is Isaac sporting the tight black 'stash.

Myself, I enjoyed the long red one.  In fact I wore it for most of he semi-final games at the tournament.

Lexy playin basketball