Family Night-Pumpkin Carving

Every fourth Sunday evening we have family night at Grandpa & Grandma Heer's house and this time the kids carved pumpkins. It was so much fun watching the kids try and figure out how they were going to carve it and then cleaning out the "guts". Tyler & Kelly did one together and then Taylor and Fred did one. Now that was REALLY funny! They all did a really great job! Trev had a terrible heachache so I ended up doing his for him.




Easton loved getting his hands in there and scooping that stuff out. He'll make a GREAT deer gutter this season. If they ever get one!! LOL


Notice the men are doing the work first! They get to do the gross part, all though these girls are NOT afraid to get their hands dirty!


Jess helping get Malorie's started, while Trev waits.



The finished products!

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

Leah Thompson, Taylor and Taylor Collins before the North Central game


Taylor warming up serving


Coach VanArsdalen getting them ready for the Pettisville game



Time out during the second Edon match....



Getting their medals



Taylor had her BBC volleyball tournaments on Saturday and it was one of the best days we've had in a while! They have struggled at times during this season and on Thursday they were beaten by North Central, and we had to play N.C. to start the morning off. They were ready to win! We beat them in 2, had a break played Pettisville, beat them in 2. Then it was Fayette against Edon and who ever won that we played for the championship or BBC title. Edon of course won, they were undefeated and obviously had beaten us twice through the season. The girls were so unified on Saturday and won the first game and WE WERE ALL PUMPED! So they start the second game TOTALLY nervous, b/c NO ONE had even beaten Edon this year! WE WON!!! WE BEAT EDON IN TWO GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS SO AWESOME!!!! Edon came in thinking they were going home with the title and left defeated! I usually don't get to worked up and during the other two games I was not to worked up, but during that Edon game I was shaking SO BAD!

Rhonda, Taylor's coach and I are best friends and Taylor has not always been the easiest player for her and there have been times both Rhonda and I didn't know what to do with her. It was so special for us to have gotten to celebrate the victory together! I am so proud of Taylor and her entire team! They really came together and stayed FOCUSED (we said that so much Saturday!). Some of the parents banned together and kept them encouraged even when they made mistakes we tried to keep them looking up and not get down. IT WORKED!!!

Then following Taylor's teams win, we went into the 7th grade game to find out the 7th grade girls were about to win their championship game! THEY WON TOO!!! It was SO COOL to have both teams come home with medals! They all worked very hard and deserved it!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!









7th & 8th Grade Hilltop Cadets Volleyball BBC CHAMPIONS!

We are still here!

It has been forever since I've updated my blog. We have been so busy and I forget to do it. Tyler has been released to play football and he started back last Friday night. I was on edge the entire time he was in! He did very well and also played Saturday and did fine. Stan happen to take Friday off, so he got to watch the game with me.

We made a VERY quick trip to PA. for our nephew's wedding this past weekend. It's hard to believe that we have nieces and nephews getting married and starting families. I think we are up to 13 Great nieces and nephews. WOW! We spent a little time with my Grandpa Throne who is in a nursing home near Lancaster, PA. It wasn't very long, but he seemed VERY happy to see us when we came in and I was SO glad that we took the time to stop and visit!! Taylor took her friend Taylor along with us and she had never been to Pa., so we stopped at Hershey where they make the Hershey chocolate candy. She thought that was pretty cool, plus we got to be in chocolate heaven!! LOL Then on the way home Sunday evening we met Stan's cousin and his aunt and uncle for supper. It had been a while since we had seen them and it was nice to visit with them. All in all it was a very eventful trip and we did it all within 48 hours! Yes, we left Saturday morning around 5 am and arrived back home Sunday night around midnight and put over 1,000 miles on our van! WOW I'm tired again just thinking about it!

I have posted some pictures of our newly remodeled kitchen. It is SO exciting to finally have the most of it done! We still need to put the tile around the back of the counter, but the major stuff is done! I am LOVING it! There is SO much room and counter space!

I guess that is all for now! Everything else is going well.



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