March 2015~by Beth

March had our family split up a bit.  While Emma and I were still in Dallas waiting for the baby to arrive, Jon took his team, along with David and Christiana, to the state championship.  The boys' varsity won a game and lost the rest and came in fourth place.  The girls were undefeated all season and totally dominated the tournament games.  They came in first place.  Here are a few photos.

LCHS varsity girls in a huddle during the semi-finals

LCHS girls varsity team with their head coach and 4 assistant coaches

Coach Ascol and Christiana with the 1st place trophy

Coach and the MVP Aaron Williams

.The LCHS boys won the Character Award two years in a row.  Here are Dave, holding the 4th place trophy, and Aaron and Dave holding the Character trophy.  Aaron has his MVP trophy too.
After everyone eventually made it home, Joel and Kelsey came over for Joel's birthday.  Here is Joel and his cake.

On the heels of the basketball season is our middle school soccer season.  Abby was super excited to get to play for the first year.  We have four girls playing, Charity, Emma, Johanna, and Abby.  Dave and Christiana are coaching the teams.

Charity and Emma during a game

Abby goes for the ball.

Johanna and Charity play in a game.

Abby plays against much larger girls.

February 2015~by Beth

February around here means basketball.  We had David and Christiana on varsity teams for our Lee County Home Schoolers, and Charity, Emma, and Johanna for the jv team.

Christiana on defense.

Dave on defense.

Jon had a great assistant coach the past two years.  We are so glad to have his insights and help.  After one of our games the boys gave Jon a birthday gift and gift card.

Johanna

Emma shooting.

Emma and Johanna at the tournament.

Zachary on his birthday.

Mid February the jv teams had a tournament.  Our girls' team came in fourth.  In our varsity league there are a few teams that have a jv team as well, so our girls had a couple more games after this tournament.








Zach left the teen years and turned 20 this year.  I didn't have a 0 for the candle, so we used a dessert plate.

Lydia loves to play outside in the snow

On February 23rd Emma and I flew to Dallas to help out at the birth of the newest baby that Nathan and Hannah were expecting.  Hannah went overdue so we were able to get there before the baby came.  However, the weather was so bad we did not arrive until 2:30a.m. because of flight delays.  Emma got to see snow for the first time.  It snowed three times while we were there.  The next photos are of the third snowfall, where we got 3 inches.

Front yard

Isn't it beautiful?  In Dallas the snow does not last long and soon the roofs were melting.  After a day or so, this snow all disappeared.

Back yard

 We loved making snowmen.  Nathan got out there and made a huge one.  It took all our might for Emma, Nathan and I to get the middle section on the bottom section.

Lydia sitting on his head.  Her legs got cold

Audrey, Lydia, Emma, Nathan, and Beth by the big snowman.

Audry, 18 mos., and Lydia, just turned 4

 A few days after the baby was born on March 4th, we left Hannah and the baby and went shopping.  We made a trip to Bass Pro Shop to see the fish.

Katie and Emma at Bass Pro Shop.

Here is a photo of the new baby while we were there.

Sophia Liane, 3/4/15, 10 lbs., 22 inches.

Emma and I left for home on March 11th, after taking care of Nathan's family for a week.  We cleaned and cooked and played with babies.