#23

In 6th grade, she picked out a number. But it wasn't just a number. It was her brothers number also. Now #23 is retiring. Last of basketball for the Bass House. Despite the fact she no longer will pursue basketball, she did manage to get upgraded to the High School team at her school for the last part of their season. Injuries and small numbers were hurting the team and she stepped up to make the first Varsity PCA girls basketball a success.

Thanks for working hard Caroline and for all the minutes we got to watch your play.

Using your Head

Another option for using your head..........

Katie Ann....first formal.....

The last two years we have watched Jason and Stephen get dressed up for a school event and now it was KA turn.....Her shoes were her own design to match her dress.

It was first also to get her hair "done". We thought we were going for a "up do" but this was the style we came out with.

KA and her friend Tony all dressed up.....

A proud dad.........

Mom having a little fun with pictures.............

Part of The Puzzle....

People, events, learning experiences are all a part of the puzzle. The puzzle of life. There are different chapters about this puzzle. The out part, the green pieces etc. Stephen life at Providence Christian Academy is a big piece of his puzzle of life. He spent 7 years there. The most time at any one school. We celebrated being a senior with a group of friends that were on his PCA journey. Some all 7 years, some 5 years and some just 1. But I hope this group will remember the fun and the life lessons they learned together.

It does seem that after 4 years, they can still sit around and talk. They can talk about things going on now and things in the past. They have shared .......being Egyptians together, learning Latin for years together, being Greeks and Romans, having a Medieval Feast, learning parts of speech, learning the preamble of the Constitution...and the list goes one...They also have shared in many first PCA moments. First basketball game in the new gym, first soccer team, first PCA team to win a championship.....They have also shared in sorrows...death, moving away, sickness....

Overall, the one thing that did not stay the same was Stephen's height...I think each one of these girls was taller than Stephen at one point...but he passed them all.........just took a while.....

February Ends..and March Begins....

February found us once again celebrating.......Caroline's middle school basketball team won the Championship game in their conference tournament. The boys also won. PCA had a double win.

March begins and that means soccer season. Four years Stephen has played at Siegel. He has been four years with 8 or 9 of these boys. They are expecting big things this spring.

Bus Rides are a part of Soccer. I am just excited that there is a boy who can takes pictures. Because no girls are allowed on the bus:)

Versatile

It pays in life to be able to be versatile....at least I think so. Exposure will help you be yourself in a tux at a prom fashion show and in an indoor soccer game. Stephen and 4 of his soccer buds went from an indoor soccer victory to a prom fashion show within 24 hours. Hopefully they were themselves both places. It is hard as a mom to know how much to push and how much to let go. But there are a few things that a 10 year old does not know....a tux in not a curse..................
but there was a time they thought a tux would turn them into who knows......

Yes, we have snow in Tennessee.....

Flurries of snow use to send my Kids into utter excitement. As they got older, it was not the snow itself but "will we out of school?" David even took off when it snowed. As of recently, if David took off, he would have to take most of his vacation days! ha.....But this winter we have had enough snow to have 6 snow days from school...........................A nice snowman......... enough to travel to "school" for sledding (KA school is in the backgound)

Even enough to get out the ruler................

View from Front door on one the snow days...........

And when they are tired of snow...........Ice Skating.....................KA is third from the front....