Ox Bow Champs

The 5th graders finished their season with an 8-0 record after the tournament championship this afternoon. They won 16-4 after playing East Side. They were pretty excited afterwards! They have a traveling plaque that will have the school's name and year on it and get to keep it at their school for the year.

The top picture is of an excited Madison and Holyn saying good-bye to each other. Madison has a group of really nice friends!

I'm working on the video editing... I just figured out how to get the video into my computer. The editing is slow-going. I might need some more RAM or an external drive or something to speed the process up. Some day you'll get to see the hightlights!

Ox Bow 24, West Side 5

Tonight was the first game of the 5th grade tournament. It wasn't too hard. : ) I just LOVE not going to games feeling anxious... or even really competitive! ha! Madison scored 6 points and had some good tie-up's for jump balls and a couple of steals. After the game we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for supper with B&P, Michelle & Jade. Uncle Archie is coming some time this weekend. He is done with his AZ assignment tomorrow I believe. Excitement is beginning to fill the air! : )

Over the weekend Madison was asked "What is the best thing that has happened to you in the last month?" Her answer was that soccer was going to be starting up again after being off for a month. She's a pure soccer girl at heart.

CDBL Kick-Off

Tonight was the kick-off for the Concord Developmental Basketball League (CDBL) at the high school game. This program is for 3rd-6th graders so this is Quinn's first year to participate. They shot baskets at the half-time of the JV Boys game as a way to introduce them to the community. : ) They start practices/games on Saturday mornings now. From 8-9am they have practice and from 9-10am they play a game. I'm not sure about that 8am start time for me. Hmmmmm. Quinn's team are the "Wolverines" and his friend Tate from school is on it. That's Tate in the picture above with Quinn. He is already stressed that Nate isn't on his team and that means he'll have to play against him. He doesn't like to do that! Anyway, you'll be hearing more about this league.

Girls Basketball: Ox Bow 40, East Side 18

Tonight was Madison's second school basketball game. The games go so fast! The quarters are only 5 minutes long and the whole game is over in about 30 minutes. It's a piece of cake compared to soccer. She barely breaks a sweat. She deserves something on the easy side doesn't she? I told Tony tonight... "why couldn't she have chosen basketball to fall in love with (instead of soccer)... we're inside, out of the sun, rain, wind, snow. There are REAL bathrooms right outside the gym, you don't have to bring your own chairs, there are drinking fountains just steps away..." Something to think about huh? : )

No new pictures tonight. Just use your imagination I guess. ha!
Love, Leah

Girls Basketball: Ox Bow 36, Southside 9

Today at 4pm was the first 5th grade girls basketball game. This is a school team. They practice after school and play the other elementaries. So far they've only practiced 3 times. This is the first "organized" sport that the elementary itself offers. They only play like 6 games or something. Our A team easily won. We have only 15 players between the A & B teams and a lot of them have played basketball before....like Peyton and Holyn. That makes a big difference. Madison kept in line with her defensive soccer skills and had about 8 steals. She needs to work on her shot though... she missed quite a few of them. It's always good to watch how much the team improves by the end of the season.

I had 2 meetings at church tonight so I first got home for the day around 8:45pm. It was a long day.

That's all folks!
Love, Leah

Science Fair and Basketball

Today was the Science Fair for the Concord schools. Kids displayed their science projects that they have worked on and had them judged by "scientists".

If you double click on these pictures they should get bigger for you.


Madison's project was "Which ear plug works the best?" She tested different brand name ear plugs to see which one blocked the most sound from room noise, a mixer and a cell phone ring. Surprisingly a marshmallow worked the best to block the noise of a cell phone ring. She used a decibel meter to determine how loud the sounds were.


Quinn's project was called "Just Cool It!" and he performed different tests to find the fastest way to cool down a can of pop. He found that water, ice and salt cooled a can of room temperature pop to a chilly 37 degrees in only 8 1/2 minutes. Pretty fast huh? We all had fun with the projects and learned about the scientific steps of research.

The kids also each had basketball games today as well. Madison's Upward team lost 18-30. She scored 10 points and played well. Quinn's team won (I can't remember the score) and he had about 8 points and at least 10 steals. He was Mr. Scrappy out there today!

Tony worked all afternoon. Well, that's all the highlights from today. Take care!
Love to all, Leah