Basketball

This year the boys all decided they would try their hands at basketball. We are in our 7th week now and are almost done. I love the boys to play sports but it is such a pain in the butt that we are tied to the house on the weekends. Garrett's games are on Thursday nights and Braxton and Weston both play on Saturday mornings. They are all doing a really good job, especially Weston with his broken arm. He had only played for a couple weeks when he broke his wrist sledding. He was so bummed that he might not be able to finish the season. Thankfully when the doctor casted it, he said that Weston could still play if he wanted to. Garrett is the most surprising though, they messed up and put him on a 3rd and 4th grade team when he is only a 2nd grader. He was having a fit the first day of course because the boys were all so much bigger than him, but he got in there and now is just as good as any of them. He is pretty aggressive and it is funny to watch him block kids twice his size... he has to work overtime!! Braxton's team is really good and it is fun to watch them. Some of the teams they play are very aggressive though. One kid last week was pushing, shoving and throwing elbows. Serves him right though because we beat them. I dont know what happened to my pictures of Braxton which I am just now figuring out that I dont have. I will have to take some more this weekend and add them to the slide.

Never take 3 boys to a pet store.....

Weston and Garrett have been bugging me to get something to "entertain" their frogs. (They are both down to 1 frog each by the way.) They seem to think that you can go to the pet store and get frog toys like you would with a dog or cat. I told them that maybe we could find a small rock or tree to put in their aquariums because they don't have a whole lot of room.
As soon as we walked in the door, they had both forgotten all about their frogs. They immediately began eeewwwing and aahhhing over all of the disgusting reptiles while I wandered around shopping for the stupid frogs. I found a couple small trees but couldn't get their attention long enough to even see if that is what they had wanted.
Of course they began begging and pleading for a new frog, a snake, a hamster, a cat, a lizard, some fish and all the while telling me how they would take care of it and clean up after it everyday!!! Now that's a funny story.. I have to remind them to feed and clean their frogs now.
After I refused to even look at the snakes, Garrett informed me that they were only "Big worms".... ya, like that is going to make me feel better! Just knowing that they were crawling around in a cage in my house would keep me awake at night. I don't know what it is, but if I even see a snake on TV I cringe and get sick to my stomach.
I can't wait until summer..... then my boys can be boys OUTSIDE!