Double Trouble: September 2010

4th of July

This years 4th of July was a little cold and damp! After all of these years I have begun to realize that summer does not start until after the 4th of July. But this year its obviously that it was longer than a month for summer to kick in... or some of us are still waiting for it! We spend the evening at Scott's Dad's house with with great friends and family.

Kaityln showing her true patriotic colors

Kaitlyn, cousin Bailey and Brayden.

Like she is really that heavy.. lanky maybe..

All the kids

( kate,charlie,brayden Bailey and Kaitlyn)

Camping 101 AKA (girls camping trip)

It all started out on a girls night out dinner when one too many drinks were had and a camping trip discussion was brought up and we all thought how great it would be for all 6 of us girls take all 12 (yes 12) of the kids on a camping trip without the husbands.. (what the hell were we thinking)

So the idea was born..... Well MY idea of the way the trip was going to go was that we were going to go to a nice KOA campground. Showers, grass, running water etc.. especially since myself and one other person has really ever camped before.. when I found out that were were staying at a camp ground with NO running water, NO bathrooms or showers and NO electricity I was shocked and a little worried myself. When I told Scott about our grand idea his exact words were" Good luck with that" laughing might I add. We get everything organized. Erika booked the camp sites and were ready to roll... this is when I got alittle more nervous. I told the girls I picked up the Starbucks viva packets for coffee in the AM and one of them asked me how was I going to boil water for it.. I looked at her and said "do you think we are hunting for our food too" we have a stove and BBQ ... we can BOIL the water" I began to wonder what we were in for.

We met at the school and with 6 SUV's packed full to the brim, 13 kids,13 bikes,1 BBQ,1 stove and propane to last us for a month and firewood that lasted us 1 night. We looked as tho were were camping for a week,when were were only staying 2 nights(if we make it 2 nights)
So we head off to Lake kachesse.. close by just in case we have to leave in the middle of the night.
We head to our destination far in the wood and got to our site in the middle of the friggin woods.. The tents went up pretty fast except for this dumb 2 man tent that took us an hour to figure out. How is it that three 8 man tents and two 4 man go up in 10 mins and it takes over an hour to get a dumb 2 man tent up... The fire is set and the Margarita's are being made..(strong ones might I add....thanks Kirsten) We are all pretty impressed with ourselves.
The funniest thing was when I showed Kaitlyn where the outhouse was and she looked at me like I was crazy.. she said that she was not going to go in there "that's disgusting" were her words. I told her her only other option was to go in the woods. she looked as me like I was crazy.. so she goes in the outhouse with her nose plugged.. I don't think I have ever seen somebody pee so fast.. Well I might have her beat and I took her nose plug idea for myself... It is pretty gross.I so wished I had a picture of it...

All of the crap!

One of the 2 camp sites.

Trying to figure out the dumb thing!

I need a friggin Beer look!

The crew getting ready to shower.... or swim

If she had some meat on her bones it probably wouldn't be so cold!

Poor Kailtyn!

Mountain biking to the beach!

Hiking to the beach!

Keeping the fire going.. we picked the wrong month to go! next year it will be after the 4th of July.. it was cold.

Quin hangin out

This is a typical Kaitlyn look!

Tyler and max

Sue and Erika and Michelle after a couple of Kirsten Margaritas! lol

Max, Kaitlyn and Jack.

" the gang"

( minus,the olsen's who had to leave early)

Fall city Falcons and hoopfest 2010

For those of you who have not heard of the Spokane hoopfest here is the definition. Spokane hoopfest is the largest 3 on 3 street court competition on the planet..Hello! It was insane on how big it was and so overwhelming when getting there and looking at all of these courts set up side by side street after street bridge after bridge.. All of the downtown streets of Spokane were shut down. With that being said I was freaking out to what we were in for and thinking we were in over our heads "AGAIN"

If you read my other post from the March madness tournament the boys had prior to this I was wondering if this was going to be another replay of there last competition. It was not pretty.It really took a toll on the kids confidence. But the only way to bring their confidence up is to have them get back into the game.. (maybe not the largest game in the world) But this is what they were working towards for 4 months.. So bring it on!

Being at an event that was that big it was pretty amazing how coordinated it all was. All the games were always at the same court and were on time and I swear it was 90 degree's and we had the best Court. The only place with shade. They had 3 games the first day. 2 if they won their first game. Their first game they WON along with the second... we were all amazed.. It was such a great feeling for them and us to watch their confidence grow game by game. By the end of the first day they were all pretty jazzed and we the parents we all pretty surprised. (not that we thought our kids sucked or anything) but the whole west Seattle torm we really had to wonder if we were one of those parents that were just blind when it came to your kids) lol

I am trying to remember how this all went I believe the second day was the semi finals and since they won the previous day they were in the winners bracket so they didn't have to fight there was up. They lost their first game which put them in the losing bracket so they had to win the following 2 games to get into the final. The next game they won in a over time( which was a nail bitter) and lost to the Yakima bulldogs which meant they made it to the final game but had to beat the Yakima bulldogs (twice) in order to win the championship. It was a close game and they played their ,hearts out. But in the end they fell short.. 2nd place in a tournament as big ad this one, was a winner in my book... out of 18 teams ! Way to represent Fall City Falcons

This was the boys routine everyday before each game. Dribbling the ball the whole way down the river to their court,but they always had to stop at the same statue to take the same picture ....everyday..everytime . (I swear it was 3 times a day)