We are doing fine

I am so sorry that my posts have been so delayed. I am so overwhelmed with school, work, Dylan's social calendar, etc. I have pics from Dylan's birthday party as well as his basketball banquet. I had planned on getting them up on this blog early this week but it hasn't worked out that way thus far. Hopefully by Saturday I will be able to catch back up..

For now, here's what we have been up to(minus the pics):

Dylan had a great birthday! He got a huge heart shaped balloon and a couple posters for his room before he went to school. Chris and I brought him McDonalds and ate lunch with him at school. After lunch we went back to his classroom and we had cupcakes for all his classmates. I didn't check him out (they still had their math and science lessons to do) but I did greet him after school with 7 balloons! He was so surprised. When we got home he got to open his present from us (and Cedie). Then we went to his last basketball practice of the season. They sang "happy birthday" to him and when practice was over we passed out cookies to all of his team mates. THEN we went to CiCi's pizza (his choice) for dinner. Granny and Grandpa met us there and he opened his present from them. On Saturday, after his last basketball game of the season (they won) we went to the skating center for his birthday party. Many of his friends came and they all had a great time.

He had his first basketball tournament game the following Thursday (2/21) and they played Grant's team. It was a very close game and we won by one basket!

Saturday, 2/23, he played in Round two. It was another close game but we didn't pull the win off this time. However, the kids had a great time and a great season.

I had my mid term exams the following week (2/25-2/29). That Monday night I also had to give a 15 minute presentation and turn in a big paper. The presentation was kind of fun and Dylan helped me prepare for it the weekend before.

Last Saturday was another packed day. Dylan had his friend Dylan spend Friday night with us. After he left Saturday morning, we 3 went to Nana's for lunch. Some of my family from Texas and from Knoxville were there and we had a great visit. Then, at 1pm, we headed to the baseball fields for Dylan's "evaluation". This is our first year doing these (he has graduated to coach pitch this year after 3 yrs of t-ball). It was neat. First he did a timed run, then he had to catch flyballs, then ground balls at first base, and lastly batting. They evaluate the kids on these 4 things so that they can attempt to make the teams even (mix the better preforming kids with the ones who aren't as good.) They were supposed to do a "draft" on Monday so we should be finding out any day now which team he will be on this year. He is hoping to be "Pirate" again or atleast be on a team with other "Pirates" from last years team. After the baseball evaluations, we headed to Dylan's potluck basketball banquet. Dylan got another trophy to add to his collection!

Last Sunday I spent some quality time with my husband (I am so busy with school and Dylan that this is a somewhat rare treat). We went on a 4-wheeler ride and had a blast. Dylan had a fun day too, spending the day with Nana and G-daddy.