February is gone!?

February flew by for us. It was a busy month, with Tyler returning home for his schooling. Plus with Logan & Hayleah going to preschool 3 days a week. And we can't forget about Jordan & his schooling (though I think I let a little too much slide with this one).

I'm going to try to catch up on some posts in the next few days, as time permits.

Can you believe Spring is already upon us!?

First Soccer Game!

Ty & the Desert Oasis High School JV team had their first game last night against Sierra Vista. It was an away game & the timing didn't work out for us to make it. Ty had hurt his ankle (doing who knows what; probably goofing off) earlier this week so he didn't play.

They lost.

The fun part about the night is I spent a good hour looking for him afterwards. I told him to ride the bus back to his school after the game & I'd pick him up there.

After 30 min. or so of driving around & parking, then driving around some more, I stopped & asked another JV player if they had seen him. The boy had seen him but was sure Ty wasn't on the bus coming home.

I moved on & decided to track down the coach to get some answers. The coach said he'd signed out (I now realize "signed out" actually means he didn't ride the bus home) & then double checked in his roster to be sure before telling me he was sure he saw Ty return trip. He didn't look as sure as he sounded so I ran home to get my cell & make some phone calls.

I guess the bus left him at Sierra Vista. They dropped the boys off in on place, then picked them up in another, so he wound up missing the bus.

Shortly after leaving to grab him from the other school, his coach calls & I can tell he's a little panicked. He said they did a head count before leaving the school after the game & the numbers turned out correct. He clearly isn't a math teacher, aside from being the soccer coach.

Coach wanted me to call him as soon as I got Ty. I understand accidents happen but I was a little irritated at being told something when he wasn't sure of the truth of his words. These kids are their responsibility when in their care. It was careless to leave someone behind. Hopefully it'll be a good learning experience for everyone.

I will now be at all of his games, even when there's something conflicting. Ty will stick with the group & not go off on his own. And hopefully the coach will either learn how to count & then re-count until he gets the same number at least two times, or call names off a roster instead of his normal guessing game. :P

Almost a High Schooler!

It's hard to believe Ty will be a freshman in a mere few weeks time! Where did the time go!? I swear he was just my little bundle of rolls, now he's the size of a man! He's at least 5'11" now & still growing like crazy. I'm glad he took after my brothers in the height department & not me. The older he gets, the more he looks like my brother Scottie.

Scottie looked like none of us, always being the best looking & tannest of us all, growing up. I wasn't even sure we were really related until I saw an old picture of my grandfather! There was a baby mix up when one of my brothers was born & my mom took the wrong baby home from the hospital. Cool story but one for another time. Anyhow, she told me about it when I was a teenager but never would say which brother it was. As it turned out, it wasn't Scottie & all my brothers are my actual blood brothers. But there was an impostor in the house for a few days a long time ago. ;)

Here they all are....

Grandpa Gillespie, 1944

Scottie, 2009

Tyler, 2009

See the resemblance?