Heather Turns 40!!

The big event of this past weekend was celebrating Heather's 40th birthday.  We had approximately 65 folks (adults and children) over for drinks and desserts on Saturday.  For the most part, folks were pretty well behaved!  Although, the weather wasn't perfect, we did luck out.  It got even colder on Sunday and Monday when we were blessed with hail and snow flurries.  While Saturday was Heather's big day, she didn't get to have it all to herself.  We spent the morning in Edmonson County for the regional academic competition.  The Briarwood quick recall team tied for 5th out of the 8 teams who made it to regionals.  Earlier in the week, Hayden was selected as the Leader of the Month for his class.  Annee was named Leader of the Month in the Fall.  This week we have an art show and Annee's first volleyball tournament with BRAVO.

Triple Threat Falls in Semi-Finals

Sunday did not go as well as Saturday for Triple Threat in their rematch against the Tennessee Heat.  Triple Threat went into halftime with a one point lead but things fell apart in the second half.  Our boys never adjusted to the quickness of the TN Heat.  We are not sure when the next tournament will be, but hopefully they will play at least one in April. 

A&H Turn 11

A&H Birthday Week has finally come to a close.  Since they had their parties last weekend, we had a relatively low key celebration on Friday.  A&H opened presents, ate cupcakes and went out for dinner at the Buckhead Cafe.  We then snuck in a nap while watching Life of Pi.  Annee wrapped up her short course swim season last Sunday (March 10th).  Since the state meet started on March 15th, she had to qualify as an 11 year old for the meet.  One day made all the difference between qualifying for almost all events or qualifying for none.  She had a pretty good final meet lowering times in three of the four events she swam.  She missed qualifying in the 50 Fly by 0.08 seconds.  The long course swim season begins after Spring Break.  Not going to Lexington for state swim made it much easier for everyone to get to Hayden's Triple Threat basketball tournament in Franklin, Kentucky.  Triple Threat split their two games in pool play this afternoon.  After losing to Franklin-Simpson 39-32 in their first game, they bounced back to defeat the Tennessee Heat 40-33.  Hayden played pretty well scoring 4 in the first game and 6 in the second.         

11!!

Tip off of the Triple Threat versus Franklin-Simpson Game

Birthday Celebrations Continue

Friday night is Hayden's turn to host his birthday sleepover.  He has seven friends over but only six will get to spend the full night.  We are hoping that they might fall asleep a bit earlier than the girls did last night.  Hayden requested hot dogs and hamburgers for his meal and donuts for breakfast.  

Notice that the birthday boy is not wearing glasses.  He went to the eye doctor with his mom this morning!!

Birthday Season Begins

Birthday season has begun with Annee hosting a sleepover for five of her friends this evening.  The girls have had pizza and cookie cake.  Hopefully movie time will start soon.  Tomorrow night will be Hayden's turn.

 

March Madness

Tuesday was March Madness at Briarwood.  March Madness is the annual basketball game where Briarwood teachers play teachers from another school.  This year Briarwood beat Plano 19-17.  Heather scored 4 points including the first bucket of the game and made a steal with about 8 seconds left.  Hayden also participated in the festivities by doing some face painting before the game started.  Annee missed most of the fun due to BRAVO practice.  She has started having practice two days a week and will have her first tournament at the end of March.

Taking his job very seriously!

Hail to the victors!

Briarwood Academic Team Advances to Regional Meet

Briarwood's Academic Quick Recall team placed 2nd in the District meet Saturday to advance to the Regional meet on March 23rd.  Annee and Hayden also advanced as individuals and will compete at Regions as well.  Annee placed 4th in Composition, while Hayden placed 2nd in Social Studies.  Overall, Briarwood placed 2nd at the District.

Good News, Bad News

Monday was a night of good news, bad news.  The good news is that Annee and the Blue Devils won their tournament championship game against the Irish.  The Irish jumped out to a 6-0 lead before the Blue Devils came back to win 23-15.  The Blue Devils outscored their opponents 15-3 in the second half of both the semifinal and championship games.  Hayden and the Heat weren't as lucky in their rubber game against the Celtics.  After being down early, the game was tied with a minutes left.  The Celtics were able to close it out in final minute of the game.  Ending the season with a loss is something of a different feeling for Hayden.  He was coming off two Toy Bowl wins and basketball and baseball championships.

 

Annee & Savannah after the championship game!  They have played basketball together since kindergarten.

Coach Brad and I have been coaching together that long too.  The six year plan worked perfectly!

Heat Advance to Semifinals

Hayden and the Heat advanced to the semifinals of the their tournament with a 49-34 win over the Grizzlies on Friday night.  Hayden had a very good game scoring 15 points, 13 in the first half.  They play the Celtics on Monday night.  The game will be the rubber match between the two teams after they split in the last two games of the regular season.  Unfortunately, Hayden's game versus the Celtics will be at the same time that Annee and the Blue Devils are playing in the championship game of the girls league.  

Blue Devils Advance to Finals

The Blue Devils won their ninth straight game with a 20-8 win over the Crimson Tide on Thursday.  Annee had four points and played very good defense.  They will play the Irish in the finals on Monday night.  Both teams are now 10-2 on the season.  The Blue Devils won the first contest between the two teams 15-14.

Weekend Update

We have wrapped up the weekend of basketball and other activities.  Hayden's travel basketball team (Triple Threat) finished 2nd in their first tournament of the year.  They won the semi-final game by 8 before falling in the championship game by the same margin.  Hayden did pretty well.  He scored 12 points in the tournament and was one of three of our players to score in all four games.  The Heat, his county team, ended up with the one seed and will open up their tournament on Friday.  They are on a collision course for a rematch with the Celtics, who they split with last week, in the semi-finals.  Annee swam up in Louisville on Sunday.  She set a personal best time in the 100 Fly and missed qualifying for state by less than one second.  On Monday, the Blue Devils played their first tournament game defeating the Spartans 24-8.  Annee scored 7 points helping the Blue Devils jump out to a 23-1 lead early in the third quarter.  The semi-final game will be against the Crimson Tide.  Below are some pictures from the past few days.

We were a bit more low key for this years book character parade.  Annee went as Jane Goodall and Hayden was Albert Einstein.  

Hayden's basketball tournament was in Cave City which is the home of Wigwam Village No. 2.  It is one of three (out of seven original) Wigmam motels still in operation.  

Me and my favorite member of Triple Threat with his second place trophy.

Me and my favorite Blue Devil.

Heat Fire Back & A Weekend of Basketball with Swimming on the Side

Hayden and the Heat started a full weekend of basketball on Friday with a big win in a rematch of Tuesday game versus the Celtics.  The Heat rallied from a 9-0 first quarter deficit to avenge their only loss on the season.  Hayden played very well and scored 8 points in the 45-34 victory.  The Heat have finished the regular season 9-1 and in a three way tie for first.  Annee and the Blue Devils kept the ball rolling with a 28-15 victory over the Tigers Saturday morning.  Annee had six points in the win and helped the Blue Devils secure the top seed for the tournament.  The Blue Devils finished the season 8-2 and open up the tournament with the Spartans on Monday.  After Annee's game, we made a couple of trips up to Cave City for Hayden's first two games with his AAU team Triple Threat.  Triple Threat won their first game of pool play against the Barren County Vipers 24-23 on a last second shot before falling to Grayson County 28-29 in the second context.  Triple Threat will be the three seed in the single elimination part of the tournament Sunday.  Hayden had a couple of pretty good games scoring 2 in the first and 5 points in the second.  Annee will be swimming up in Louisville tomorrow.  Heather, Grandma Peggy, and Grandpa Cy will make their way to Louisville for the swim meet.  Below are a couple of photos that Grandpa Cy took of the hoops action over the past couple days.