Why I love Marshall's

I have the bestest friend named Mashell and I call her Marshell. But, I love Marshall's store too. Here is why. Lelli Kelly shoes! Grace had a shoe fetish with Lelli Kelly shoes but they are a bit $$$. I found them today at Marshall's for less than 1/3 of the price. I checked on a website and verified my bargain. Now, do I let her wear them to school?

These are the GOOD days.

Today was one of the good days. Joey went to the Temple and it was a great day. He will be leaving in a little over two weeks to serve his mission in Mexico. What a good boy he is. We are so lucky to have such great kids and we are especially proud of Joey for the right choices he has made in his life.

Matt makes a slam dunk!

Matt's class had a contest for the design of their Valentine's Day card box. Last night Gracie and I were at Kyle's game in Gilroy (more to follow) and Joey and Matt made a slam dunk box. Ok, the artwork has a bit to be desired, but the originality was superb and Matt took second prize. The first prize box had lights etc (oh puhlease). Yay Matt.

Salinas had a chance to clinch a playoff berth last night witha win over Gilroy. It seemed like a lackadaisical (is that a real word, or maybe I just don't know how to spell it) effort and then turned around in the second half. Kyle hit a three to tie it with 2:30 left and then scored inside while a teammate busted another three to put Salinas up by 5. A Gilroy player was injured so the ref called an injury time out and SHS coach motioned for a "30". The SHS bench jumped up and ran out on the floor to congratulate those teammates on the court and the ding dong ref called SHS for a "T" for being on the floor. The other ref said he didn't remember if Coach Chappell called a Time out or not. They (refs) went and talked to the Gilroy coach (flashback to last year when this coach assaulted a ref and told him he would wait for him and *)% him up and kill him). Well the call stood where Gilroy made two free throws and the ball and banked in a three to send it into overtime. SHS scored on the first possession and never led again. The final was 63-62. One more chance on Friday night against power Palma who lost last night to the team Salinas beat by 15 on Friday. Boy, now they will be mad - oh great!


Gilroy newspaper article

Here's what I deleted...Salinas High vs. North Salinas

The Best of Both Worlds!!!

All ready FINALLY - It's Hannah Day!

It's Girls Night Out!

Grace and Elizabeth

Ready to PUMP UP THE PARTY

So much excitement!

Alls I can say is ONLY ONE MORE DAY! I don't know if Gracie will be able to sleep tonight - this is better than Christmas! It's Hannah Montana in 3D! Oh you know there will be pictures!

Spelling Bee - Are there two 'W's in Wednesday?

Why yes there are. "W" for Hartnell and "W" for Salinas. Woo Hoo!!!

You can go here to read all about them.

Hartnell
Salinas High

Ok, now I have to go do homework. I just can't get in the groove. It was so nice for that month to not have that grind of a million pages a day of reading (I am NOT exaggerating). I think its time to go do some light reading of my new favorite book Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice. I'm so excited! Who knows what tomorrows favorite reading will be!

"This is a time to be strong." Gordon B. Hinckley

President Gordon B. Hinckley
June 23, 1910 - January 27, 2008

We Thank Thee O God For a Prophet

"The time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding of the grand millennial mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints..."

"Stand for something or you will fall for anything"

Click to read The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Deseret News Notice of Death

"they're just loud..."

Last night at the Hartnell game, they were victorious against West Valley of Saratoga. A woman I was sitting by me said, "they look intimidating". It was during warmups and they are vocal and loud. I told her, "they're just loud". They had 14 players on their roster and Hartnell has 8. Hartnell quietly and methodically won the game - not by a lot - but they pulled it out 62-60. A very gutsy performance to place Hartnell in second place in their league. Go Panthers!

Half way through!

Salinas finished the first half of their conference season against Palma. Palma is the Salinas area powerhouse - they powered again last night! They have great coach and sometimes it is hard to watch a good coach...when he is not coaching your son - but enough of that.

Hartnell pulled out a win at Monterey Peninsula and they are rounding into the second half of their season next week.

School starts for me tomorrow so the next update may be sometime in May!

It's time for camping!

It's time for the Vasher's to go camping! Oh the great outdoors, starry skies and all that fresh air --- WAIT! (sound of record scratching!) You are talking about these Vashers where camping takes on a whole meaning!

Two of the campers all ready to go! When Gracie found out she was old enough to go camp - and that she would be going - these were the words from her mouth. What am I going to wear? She wasn't too sure about girls playing basketball, so we settled on a Hannah Montana t-shirt for basketball camp.

All lined up for the first drill!

Matt and his ball handling drills.

Let's huddle up for a yell!

Kyle - this is the first day of camp after the first session!

Kyle had a game on Thursday night - here is the link - Californian

Panthers conference opener

The Panthers played their conference opener against DeAnza and won 67-64. I can't say enough about these guys who have stuck it out through the weirdest season on record! These two guys are returners from last year's conference champion team. You guys are awesome!

Chris Romney

Chris Warne

Article

It's the real thing now...

Nathan and Liesel made it official! They will be getting married and sealed in the Rexburg Temple on April 12. Congratulations! We are so excited for you both.

Bball back in action!

I think this might be called "reaching in"? under around and through?


Whoops.
Here is a link to articles about this game and Hartnell's conference opener:

the Californian 1/0/08

The holidays are such a fantastic time of year. This Christmas came and went so quickly - but it was a great time to spend with family. I misplaced (I know, hard to believe) my camera and so pictures are few but fun.
Katie was playing in Gracie's closet and look what she found!


Look who came to our Christmas! Gracie Montana!

Joey and Katie and their morning ball workout routine.

Kyle is playing ball again:

MontereyHerald

Let the fun begin!

The Taggarts arrived last night and whew baby Katie has grown!













Salinas played vs. North Monterey County and here is a link to some footage and the article, Kyle is #33

Game footage

Article on game