Michael's birthday

Michael's 14 years old.  Check out his jersey number (same number as his dad's during high school)!  He celebrated with multiple sleep overs with friends, a few meals out, and a day in Lexington at Sky Zone with his friend-since-age-3, Stephen.  Of course they played basketball at Sky Zone, but a fancier version than usual.  I thought Michael was wearing his new bright orange play shoes but then how odd that Stephen was wearing the exact same shoes; Steven explained that those are the mandatory socks that everyone at Sky Zone has to wear. He does love his new orange sneakers, though; thanks for those of you who gave him birthday money to buy them!

For at least the fifth year in a row, Michael selected an Oreo ice cream cake for his birthday.  And something was very, very funny (I was probably telling one of my hilarious jokes when this photo was taken).

Michael continues playing organized basketball.  His select team won another championship.  He attended basketball individual player camp last week and was one of three campers awarded all-around best Camper of the Week - wow. 

Happy birthday, wonderful son.

May

School is out!  Alarms have been turned off!  Life is slower.  Breakfast is occasionally missed.  The dogs almost always have someone at home with them. 

Elizabeth has begun piano lessons.  She'll be learning both classical and popular music.  During the summer, she has a lesson once every two weeks.  During the school year, she'll have one lesson each week. We love hearing her play, although the dogs make mournful noises when she hits high notes, so she reserves those songs for when Steven and I are walking the dogs 30 minutes each evening.

Michael attended team basketball camp - 10 games against teams from around the state in three days.  Michael was unbelievable - he averaged just over 20 points per game.  Here's a clip of him making a buzzer shot.

We still love eat-out Friday. Here we are in Cheddar's parking lot this past weekend.  Steven's long arms make excellent selfies.

I get to have longer than usual lunches with friends.  Do you know these two people?

And we celebrated Memorial Day in Shelbyville.