January Events

 We took a quick picture with Sarah after one of her basketball games in January.

My family got together at our house to celebrate Christmas and exchange gifts in January.  We all went to Sarah's basketball game, then we came back to the house and ate dinner together.

After dinner, we opened gifts.

There were a LOT of nice gifts given.  But, the best and most funny gifts were the MUGS this year.

Sarah painted the beautiful picture below for Popee.

And, she painted the two pictures below for EP and Lindsee.

Everyone got at least one new mug for Christmas.  As another mug would get opened we all laughed and joked.

Belle even got a funny picture from Popee... "Dear Santa, it was the cat."

Will finally got his birthday gift from us too! 

Below, our new MUG pictures!  Show them off.  The year of the mugs.  Mugs for days.  Cotton-Headed-Ninny-MUGgins.

Silas had some great basketball fans at one of his basketball games in January.

Silas and Will did a hilarious facetime phone call that I got a funny screenshot of while they were talking.

Phoebe's choir got to sing the National Anthem at a Thunder hockey game one Friday evening.  They sounded AMAZING!  Then they all stayed to watch the game together.  Families got to go out on the ice after the game for pictures.

Popee came to town one day for the Grandparents Lunch at Silas's school.  Popee brought a special lunch of pizza and cookies for them to share.

After Silas's last basketball game of the season, the team posed for a team picture.  They had an undefeated season.  Great job coaches and boys!

The Hastings family got together in mid-January to celebrate Christmas.  We ate lots of different kinds of soups and desserts, played some card games and carroms, watched some basketball and football games on t.v., and did a funny number gift exchange game that my Dad organized.  We had nice time visiting and laughing with each other that day.

Silas was selected, along with 11 other students, from his school to sing at the monthly Board Of Education meeting in January.  They sang a song called "We Appreciate You".

Phoebe still is a great helper with our chickens.  We added the three chicks to our flock a couple months ago.  They all have adjusted well and have grown into nice looking chickens.

Silas had hand surgery on Friday, January 27th.  He had a couple spots in his left hand and one finger where there was only cartilage instead of where bone should have been.  We made the decision after talking with the pediatric orthopedic surgeon that it would be better to fix this now instead of waiting until he finished growing.  So, all the cartilage that was not supposed to be there was scraped out and cadaver bone was placed back in these spots.  It was a pretty intense surgery and his hand had some trauma (bruising and lots of swelling).  He is doing well and started PT right away to help with the healing and getting motion back in the left hand and finger. **Update** Most recently, (as of yesterday 2/8), the big incision on his finger has gotten infected.  We are treating him with an antibiotic and keeping a close eye on it and will return to the doctor in a week.

Silas - Basketball 2022/2023

 ** Guest Blogger **

Eric Hendrickson

My 3rd-4th grade boys team from last year was a good team.  We were mostly 4th graders and it was the first year of basketball for a few of them.  Going into this year, I knew we would be really good.

We were given pink jerseys, so we named ourselves the Pink Panthers.  We went by Panthers.  I lost a few from last year and gained a few new kids: Tyson, Corbin, and Andrew.  I also lost a few coaches and gained a new one: Sarah.

Back (left to right): Coach Sarah, Slade, Blake, Silas, Coach Eric

Middle (left to right): Tyson, Corbin, Luke B, Fisher

Front (left to right): Carlo, Andrew, Luke H

Game one - December 3rd

We play four (8) minute quarters.  I have ten players so I split them into two teams and each team plays four minutes per quarter.

We play on 8.5' goals. 

We won 34-4.

Game two - December 10th

Stacee was not able to go to this game because Phoebe had an end-of-season basketball tournament at the same time, so no pictures of this game.

We played a Haysville team that had a handful of kids from the football team.  This was our most competitive game where we won 28-8.

Game three - December 17th

We played in Clearwater.  This was a brutal game for Clearwater.  We won 52-4.

We posed after the game in Clearwater for a group photo.  Silas and his family fan club.

Game four - January 7th

We played another Haysville team.  The team had a few guys from the football team and some baseball players.

Silas did a good job of passing the ball.

We won 40-0.  Everyone on the team but one scored.  To keep the team in the proper perspective (not to get inflated egos), I have had our team scrimmage a 5th grade MAYB team a few times.  We are not nearly as good as this MAYB team, but we can compete with them.

Silas had another great family cheering section for this game.

Game five - January 14th

We played in Clearwater again against their other team.

This team was more competitive but it was still a blow away.

We won 38-2

Game six - January 21st

Silas understands the game and knows where to go when he doesn't have the ball on offense.  The only fault this game was he dribbled too much.

We won this game 32-0.  It was a great year going undefeated and only giving up about 3 points a game.  We are going to find a more competitive league next year.