Basketball, Basketball, & More Basketball

Maddie & Jackson both played basketball again this season with the Lorena Leopard Basketball League. They both practiced once a week and played their games on Saturday. Luckily, they played in the same gym, so their games were never at the same time!

Jackson got to play with all boys this year-can we get an AMEN for that?! Last year was organized chaos, but this year they could actually make it up & down the court. The coach tried to get them to run plays; sometimes the plays worked, but mostly they did not. Whether they worked or not is beside the point because they sure looked cute in their uniforms!

Maddie's age group played full-court basketball, without wristbands-can I get an AMEN for that too?! She was by far the tallest girl on her team, so she played down low. Maddie inherited her momma & daddy's backside, which happened to be a good thing at this point in time. She used that junk in her trunk to make her way to the basket!

As you can see in the picure below, dribbling was not one of Maddie's strongest skills. She really liked to dribble with two hands, and the refs did not!!!

After the Lorena Leopard Basketball League's season was over, one of the coaches from another team in Maddie's division wanted to put a select team together. He asked Maddie to play on his team & she happily accepted! A couple of weeks later they played in a tournament in Robinson. They had only practiced a couple of times together so all the kinks weren't worked out. They lost both of their games, but played their hearts out!

Coach John wants to keep the Lorena Leopards practicing and playing in tournaments. Hopefully, we'll get some wins on our record soon!

Sensational Six Year Old

We have one sensational six year old in our house as of February 2, 2010! Happy Birthday, Cason!!!

To celebrate Cason's birthday, Corey took cookies and juice to his class . Cason's teacher, Mrs. Channon, had a birthday hat, stuffed animal, & book for him. We love Mrs. Channon!

Cason's class had to rearrange the words to the Birthday Song, and then sing the song to him.

We also celebrated Cason's birthday at Bubba's. Mamaw brought him a yummy cookie cake and we all sang to him. Luckily, nobody cried during the birthday song!

Skater Kids

Skating is something that I loved as a kid, and I've heard that Corey was quite the skater in his younger days. One of his relatives owned T's Skating Rink, so he spent a lot of time perfecting his skating skills. T's Skating Rink is also where I went to go skating. Neither one of us remembers seeing the other one there, but I'm sure at some point we were both at T's, skating our hearts out, at the same time. Who knows, I may have beaten him in a race, or maybe even skating limbo:)

With all that being said, the kids wanted to go skating over our Christmas break, so we loaded up one afternoon headed to Skate Place. Since we went on a weekday, the rink wasn't too crowded.

Cason started out a little slow but caught on quickly. He had been to a skating birthday party recently, so skating was still somewhat fresh to him.

Maddie & Jackson hadn't been skating in quite some time, so they were a little rusty.

By the time our skating session was over, they were figuring out to get around on four-wheels.

Off to the Christmas Races

As soon as we finished opening gifts at our house, the firs leg our Christmas race began with a trip to Gram and Pop's house. Chris and his kids were patiently waiting for us to arrive, so the madness we call Christmas could commence. As soon as we got in our designated spots with cameras in hand, all the opening began.

Mason looks happy with the present she opened!

Jackson couldn't wait to shoot at the target with his new gun.

Cole, sporting his LT jersey, was all smiles.

Carter's new robot was a hit with all the kids.

Corey & I got a video camera from Gram & Pop.

Hopefully, I can figure out how to use it!

We all had worked up an appetite after opening all the gifts at Gram & Pop's, so we headed over to Granny's for Christmas breakfast. It was delicious, as usual!

Before the kids could open their presents, Corey's Uncle Troy had a special gift to unwrap. The special gift was a gun that belonged to Papa Maynard, Corey's grandpa. The gun hadn't been seen in a very long time, and was very special to Troy. It was an emotional beginning to a normally wild, and crazy event.

After all the tears were dried, the craziness began!

The final leg in our Christmas race was at Mamaw & Papaw's house, where we opened more presents and ate more yummy food. There seems to a pattern forming here!!!

We survived another fun-filled Christmas race. I am so thankful that we have so many homes to race to, so many gifts to open while we are there, so many special people to see, and so many wonderful memories to make.

Santa Came to Our Town

Christmas morning came much later this year than last -thank goodness. Last year we were up at 2 am because Santa had already been to our house. This year Corey woke the kids up because HE couldn't wait any longer!

Cason asked Santa for a "real" bow & arrow so he could shoot Jackson in the butt. That crazy Santa read Cason's list and granted him his wish!
Jackson, who didn't want to harm his brother with his Christmas wish, also got his weapon of choice from the Big Man. He plans on shooting animals with his gun.

The kids had to take a break from looking at all their new stuff to read the letter that Santa left them and look through their stockings.

This was Max's first Christmas. He got just about as many toys as the kids!

I'd say Santa was pretty good to the Pitts kids this year!

Christmas Eve Celebration

We always start our Christmas celebration on Christmas Eve at Mamaw & Papaw's house. Since it snowed & was actually cold, Papaw built a fire in the fireplace. The boys aren't used to seeing anything but ashes in that fireplace, so they were completely engrossed with the flames. I am so thankful we do not have a fireplace in our house. I fear to think what damage would be done if we did!

Maddie decided to warm herself by the fire with the boys. When those 3 crazy kids get together, you never know what you're going to see or hear. I really wanted a cute Christmas Eve picture by the fire, but this is the Christmas Eve picture I got. You gotta love em!

As usual, we played our fun Christmas game. The die was thrown, the present was passed, and when Cason opened the gift, he got the most appropriate gift . . . a candy-pooping cow. When you pulled the cow's head down, brown-colored candy came out of its rear-end. Cason thought it was hilarious!!!

Once the fun game was over, the kids got to open their "one" Christmas Eve gift. Jackson opened up an arcade baseball game, which kept him entertained for the rest of the evening.

The gift that Maddie opened was one that Mamaw & I knew she would love, and we couldn't wait for her to open it!

And we were right . . . she loved her new sewing machine!We had another wonderful Christmas Eve celebration with our family. We are so blessed to have such loving people to surround us during the most special time of year!