Division Champs

Logan's team won their division 13-1 and now go into the tournament on March 6-8. They have a couple of non-competitive games this weekend to keep themselves warm, plus also play a scrimmage against the other Madison West team tomorrow night for more practice. I'm not sure what we'll do when the season ends. There is no talk of another sport to follow basketball now. if anyone wants to come down for the tourney, let us know. It will be fun.

A day of gift certificates...

We had a big stack of gift certificates sitting in the office, so we decided to do a little shopping with them. First we hit Best Buy for a few CDs and a new cord for Logan's guitar. Then, off to Barnes and Noble for a new deluxe Scrabble game set (we are a family who scrabbles together- and Logan won the first game on the new board too). We had this gift certificate for a comic book store by my work, we stopped in there and the guys picked up three new reads. One that Jeff licked up is The Watchmen. I guess it's a great read and he seems to like the comic book spin on it. The last gift certificate for the day was for lunch at Olive Garden (courtesy of Jenny and Vickii). We pigged out on pasta, pizza, bread sticks, and salad/soup. We rolled out of there and back home. All in all, I think we only spent a few bucks of our own. Thanks everybody for the great day.

Logan is 11-1 now in basketball

They have 4 more games to go. Then off to the tournament weekend. They are doing great out there and have improved some much as a team throughout their season. I am so proud of them all. The boys seem to love Jeff as a coach and love to give him a hard time. Last Sunday's game was a knuckle biter and they barely won 40-38. They still have to play the other lead team before the tournament and that should be a great game. Stressful, yet great! I have to remind myself not to drink coffee before the games. (I don't want to scare the parents or the kids with my sideline craziness.)

Peking Acrobats

All I can say is "WOW". This was a great show. They were in Madison for one show and I'm glad that we went to see it. I absolutely love anything Asian inspired and loved this show. The colors were so vibrant. The acrobats were amazing and I cannot wrap my head around the abilities of the contortionists. The girls could bend themselves in half (forwards and backwards). Wild gymnasts moves by the guys too. They did this great rope act that was unbelievable. The guys were hopping around on these ropes like they were monkeys or something. Dangling by one arm or leg. To end it all, we saw a girl riding an unicycle on top of an umbrella that a guy was holding over his head. Jeff especially loved the dancing Foo Dogs at the beginning of the show. He said that he was hooked after that.

Slumdog Millionaire

2 thumbs up from me. If you haven't heard about this movie yet, go see it! There was a guy that passed Jeff and I as we were going into the theatre today saying "You'll love that movie. It's a great one." He was right on the money... GO SEE IT!

You don't need to know what it's about before you see it to appreciate it. Be pleasantly surprised.

The Black Dahlia

I would give this book 4.5 stars (out of 5). It was well written and I would recommend this book to all readers. The story line is a little twisted and not normally something I would pick up to read. I'm glad I dove in and made myself read it. I haven't seen the movie yet and have it on my queue of those to watch now.

7-1 now...

For those of you keeping track, Logan's team is now 7 and 1. They had a pretty interesting weekend of ball play. Friday night's game, our team only scored 9 points in the first half, then came out the second half to score 31 more. They won pretty easily once they started playing the game. The game Saturday morning was against a team that they had previous lost to (their only loss so far). The game was very neck-in-neck and very stressful as a mom in the stands. We were a very loud cheering section and the guys pulled off a win of 29-28. Both teams had a great defense going and they didn't let each other score very much. The other team was very sad that they lost, but now the teams are equal in their records. We do play them again- on our home court too. I'm excited to see how that one goes. (there are 16 games in the season, so we're halfway there...)

Bus Stop

Jeff threw his back out showing off for his basketball team the other day (you're not as young and agile as you used to be Jeff!), so Logan and I went out on a date last night to the Madison Rep play, "Bus Stop". We went to Takara for sushi first (gorged ourselves on delicious rolls), then off to the show. The show was great and pretty funny. We both fell in love with Virgil in the show. We had a blast and poor Jeff was laid up on the couch getting plenty of rest.