5-1

Tonight the team traveled just down the road to Eddyville. Since it is a short drive on over, Aubrey and I ventured out to watch, too along with Grandpa and Grandma and Aunt Andrea. The team was playing for the "Eddybylooska Battle on Highway 163 Traveling Turtle Trophy" (whatever that means) lol. We had won last year and wanted to keep it that way and we did! We blew away the competition with a final score of 68-36. Eddyville's best player went down Friday night and was out with a concussion, but still, we smoked em:) Good night Lady Indians!

PS- This is NOT what the trophy looks like, but it's a "turtle trophy"

Enjoy!

Aubrey's Art

This week at the babysitter, Aubrey made us a wonderful little Christmas present! 

Since we were both home sick on Friday, we didn't notice it until later on that night and it was a wonderful surprise! 

Thanks, Lisa, for working with Aubrey to make it! It turned out adorable! 

You can't quite tell the size but it is about an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of canvas.

4-1

Tonight the Oskaloosa Girls Basketball team was on the road again, this time to Pella High. 

UNFORTUNATELY it was a big bummer because the whole Kaisand family was SICK! Steve stayed home from school with strep throat and I have a sinus infection. This was the fist game that Steve was not able to go coach and he was big-time bummed! 

Thankfully the team was prepared and the Oskaloosa girls won 55-36. Pella had it close to a 5 point game, but then the team pulled away!  Steve had prepared them well, but it was very disappointing that he couldn't go! Instead we sat on our couches and listened on the radio. 

So, here we are 4-1 and off to a great start to the season!

3-1

We played Pella Christian on the road tonight and got out first loss on the season. It is always hard for the girls to go and play there. The final score was 60-48. They had some VERY TALL girls that we could not defend against and a girl who made about four threes. Add those together and it didn't add up for a win for us. BIG BUMMER! So, we are 3 and 1 on the season. There's your update for the night. It's not nearly as fun posting about a loss, that's for sure! Good thing we still love the coach! 

"You are so pretty!"

Okay, I normally wouldn't post something like this, but I just have to share since it made such an impact on my day Saturday! It was Saturday morning and I was working out at Curves and didn't particularly want to be there that morning, but I was and just going about my workout when an elderly lady leaned over to me and said,

"You are so pretty!"

Wait a minute, what...I am not sure I know who you are and I am in the middle of sweating my booty off and you say that to me?! WOW! I immediately said,

"Oh, why thank you, I don't get that a lot, like ever...but thank you!" (BIG SMILE)

It's not every day that you get such a sweet comment from a stranger.  We didn't go on talking the rest of the time there. She did her workout and I did mine and I just could not stop thinking about her kind words the rest of the time, well, more like rest of the day or even the rest of the weekend!

Here was a very elderly woman, and I think I may know her name and she might even go to our church, and many of you reading from this area may even know who she is and it wouldn't surprise you by that comment, but that's not what was so important to me. What was so meaningful is that this woman did not know me at all, but just felt compelled to share that with me.

I know it was an "outwardly" comment but it goes to show that a small little comment to someone can make their day in such a big way! So, choose your words carefully and go ahead and make someone's day! :)

3-0 and ranked #15

It was the first game that Aubrey and I got to go to for the season and the Oskaloosa Indians pulled out a win tonight over Des Moines Hoover. It wasn't always pretty, but they got the job done. Steve also informed me yesterday that his team has now moved into the rankings being ranked #15 for 4A schools! Way to go! I don't know that Oskaloosa Girls Basketball has ever been rated! Here are a few "shots" of the night! :)

Pep talk by Coach K before the game

Yay, Osky! Aubrey was a little follower of Daddy we noticed!

Soon she was imitating what he said and even the plays he called or actions he did.

Pretty cute!

Time Out

Entertaining herself by climbing up and down the steps.

She did a pretty good job staying entertained and not crabby 

considering the game didn't start until 7:30 and that's about when we start calming down for the night. 

She made it through the whole game which ended at about 9:10 (an hour past bedtime).

We only live 5 minutes from the Gym but she was out in 2 seconds.

Coach Kaisand and his two assistant coaches:

Coach Schmidt and Coach Pederson

Final score - we win!

Way to go, Coach!

(nice "robin's egg blue" attire, by the way)

PS- the coaches always coordinate clothing colors...

requested by the woman assistant coach of course.

But they do look good, all matching :)

Running out of room...?

So in my last post it said that was running out of room to store my pics on from this blog. I don't really know a whole lot about that, except for the fact that it said that if I wanted more space I had to buy some (?!) or delete some older pictures! So, I have made a book about all my blog posts from the year 2011 and plan to delete those posts and pictures (from the blog, not forever), that way it will free up more space I guess. I plan to do this in the next few days so if you want to reminisce from my 2011 blog posts, you better do so soon because the next time you check they just might be gone :) Thanks for reading, my faithful fans!