my daddy, the coach, the mentor, the friend, the uncle and this blog is to keep him up to date while he has moved on to the next stage of eternal life ...
oh how i love my scrapbooking. and becky higgins is the queen of scrapbooking ... and it makes it easier because she is also a member so her ideas for family home evening and primary age kids are so user friendly!
but project life is her business right now and i have wanted to do it for months but the products have all been sold out ... until now! if you dont know what project life is ... well watch the video, becky explains it better than i will :)
so all i can say ... my pre order is in and im now waiting for it to be shipped! woo hoo!
to most people it looks like nothing special, just some random wall.
to basketball people they will recognize it's wanneroo wolves.
to my family they will know that it's our 1st of 2 basketball homes ... where we feel closest to dad and where we feel welcomed.
to me ... its a reminder. a reminder of my dad, a reminder of the love and honour the wolfpack has for my dad, a reminder of the tribute weekend when the wolfpack men and women played in honour of dad, a reminder of the one minute silence they had for my dad ... a reminder that the men won by 34 points over the magic for my dad.
everytime i look at my iphone (which let's face it is quite often) i remember all these things and most important i remember my dad and love him even more than i did a minute ago.
i LOVE the census ... well in reality i LOVE forms!! as soon as i see a form needing to be filled out my heart literally skips a beat. i dont care whether the form is mine or someone else's i will fill it out for them. nothing really seems more fun in my warped mindset then sitting there and filling out the little boxes, ticking the little boxes and then the feeling of accomplishment when i sign it and sent it in.
i never said that i was normal ... and im alright with that :)
yeah ... i think we have all established that 2011 is not a good year for the pinker family. with only 8 weeks until WABL grand finals and 2 months until state tryouts theron has fractured his ankle and damaged his tendons ... not good.
it happened during his normal monday night game at joondalup ... he went up for a layup, landed on the opposition's foot, heard a snap, tried to walk it off and crumpled to the ground. we didnt think it was too bad but we did go to hospital and lucky we did because out theron comes in a cast and with an appointment with the facture specialist for the next day :(
the good thing to come out of the whole night ... theron is cared about. we had not only his teammates run over to him but his WABL teammates who were playing on the next court came running over during their game to see if he was okay.
our goal now ... lets just pray for a miracle ready for WABL grand finals!!
today was the day that we all were looking forward to ... with a heavy heart and bucketloads of nerves.
it was the last NITP camp of the year ... and the first that we have gone to without dad. the first camp without dad was just a few weeks after the funeral and we just couldnt do it. this camp theron was running with the squad and i was going to coach ... something i havent done in years and not at this level ... this was state level ... come on now people ... state level ... i can barely follow the plays that the wolves play ... as you can probably tell i was stressing.
in the end ... the day was fantastic. theron had a little hiccup about lunch time and i had a little attack just before the drills started but we were there in honour of dad and everything he had laid the foundation for this ... for theron and i to continue his work ...
i absolutely love lady antebellum. hillary and charles individually have very strong voices and together they just seem to complement each other so well and with dave he seems to just harmonize the two of them together, not to mention dave is a kickass guitarist and pianist.
not a day goes by that i dont listen to at least one lady a song ... whether im feeling sad, angry at the world, jumping for joy, laughing my head off or just sitting and watching the world pass by ... lady a has a song for each moment and the lyrics are meaning something.
top 5 lady a songs (at the moment)
1) home is where the heart is (lady antebellum)
2) just a kiss (own the night)
3) last night last (need you now)
4) american honey (need you now)
5) love don't live here (lady antebellum)
bring on sept 13 ... 'own the night' is released and i have more lady a songs to choose from :)
its true ... i spend just as much at this desk as i do at home or at any basketball court in perth. i am truly blessed with my job, my bosses has been amazing over the past few months and i love my job. there i said it, i love my job. i love the paperwork, the endless stationery supply, the fact i can listen to my music all day, the problems that pop up, the solutions i can work out, the improvement on my ability to work with numbers) and most of all the fact that it has the tendency to challenge me every day.
i dont mind admitting i love my job ... although not as much as my bed and any basketball court :)
my wallet and bag are FULL of these little ticket stubs. i honestly think all the sports stadiums in perth have a supply agreement with the company.
everytime i see one of these little ticket stubs i have so many good memories to look back on. all the hawks, wolves, senators, marlins, royals, tigers, tuart hill, heat games from the past several years ... all of them involving the people that mean the most to me ... my family and our teams.
these tickets are from the last WABL game at stirling this season ... good times :)
theron's mates have become part of the family since dad's passing. our home (even though it is at least half hour away -one way- from woodvale) has someone over nearly every weekend and when they are over the lounge room gets turned into the 'boys cave'.
today theron had blake over and after a rather heated playfight they seem just to tire themselves out or as they later put it 'they had a power nap'.
no matter how old they get, they just dont seem to change at all ... they are still my little brothers :)
i was born in the middle of summer so therefore i should be a true summer baby right? wrong! so very very wrong! i am a winter girl through and through.
i love wearing layers, jeans and hoodies.
i love the thunderstorms, the hail and the lightning.
i love the heater being on, candles being lit and wrapping myself up into a huge doona.
i love the fact there are puddles everywhere, the skies going darker by the minute and the bottom of my jeans staying wet due to the puddles being everywhere!!
