Nick's Basketball Season Starts

Nick's basketball season got underway Saturday. I'll post a few images from his first game in a minute. I've not blogged in a few days. Life has been nice and slow lately. But, I'll catch you up on what we've been doing the last few days anyway. Today, we got out the Christmas trees and put them up. One is pre-lit (such a great invention) and one is not. I put the lights on the unlit one and all was fine. I put Sarah to bed and came back down and now one string of lights is not working, causing a few others not to work. Those kind of lights (that make the whole strand go dark if one malfunctions) should be outlawed. I'm turning into the Grinch just thinking about finding the bad bulb.

Last week we went on another hike on House Mountain. We all had fun again, but I left the camera at home, so no images from that hike.

We had a little party with some of my co-workers this weekend to watch the SEC Football Championship game. UT outplayed LSU almost all game long, but a couple of really bad passes (one intercepted and returned for a touchdown and one intercepted in the closing minute) cost UT the game and the championship. LSU will now play for the national championship.

Ok, on to a a few pix of Nick's basketball game. Oh, he played pretty well and they won easily. They have a very tall team and should do very well this year. I heard quite a few other coaches talking about how big Nick's team is.

Nick shows off his hops and wins the jump ball to start the season.

Nick on the fast break. He got fouled, but not points on this try.

Dribbling towards the goal. He's getting better with the ball, but probably the weakest part of his game right now. Towards the end of the game, he was starting to get his confidence to drive to the goal.

Looking for the open shot or open teammate.