January 2015~by Beth

It is always nice to start a new year; a new slate to begin anew.  I don't ever make New Year's resolutions, but I do like to ask the Lord to help me correct those things in my life that I did not do such a good job on last year.  We did have some nice meals that day.  It began with brunch.  We had egg casserole, latke's (a potato pancake), cut up fruit, and juice.  Don't these look yummy?

Latke's

Egg casserole

Later I made a creamy chicken dinner.  Joel and Kelsey joined us after dinner and we watched some game or other.  In the next day or two we cleaned up all our Christmas decorations and got ready for the school year to begin again after the holidays.

Charity at our home game against Providence Christian

Emma plays defense in our first game against Good Shepherd Lutheran

Johanna in her very first basketball game after surgery January 23

Dave on defense in his varsity game against Sonshine Christian

Johanna's steal in her second game

Dave's varsity team beat Sonshine, and two days later beat Temple Christian.  They are 3-0 for the conference.



In Johanna's second game against Good Shepherd Lutheran, she stole the ball, ran for the basket and shot and made a lay-up.  All our girls' teams had a challenge to shoot 400 lay-ups at home (along with 500 free throws), and Johanna had been practicing a lot before her games.  It paid off here as she scores her first 2 points for her jv team.  The lighting is not good as the sun was descending in the sky and made a glare on the court.  Emma said it was hard to play in the glint of the sun.

I don't have any good photos of Christiana in her games but she has been playing very well.  In our game against Gospel Baptist she played all game long.  Her team has won 4 games so far, no losses, but only one of those games was a conference game.  Two teams in our conference did not field a girls' team this year.  Our girls will likely go to state as first seed.  Christiana is a great ball handler and always on the look out for a steal.  Her shooting has improved too.  She completed the lay-up and free throw challenge, along with Charity.  Emma and Johanna are still working on completing their free throws and they will be done.