Toy Story Nostalgia

We watched Toy Story and Toy Story 2 tonight.  Just Tanner and I, and then Scott watched the rest of 2 with us.  I went downstairs and got Woody and Buzz out of storage.  But I'm so confused, because Buzz is not the Buzz that Zach had...I think we got this one at a garage sale, because he wanted 2 of them.  The other one was much cooler--you could turn him on and it would sound like he was flying, and if you opened his helmet, he would tell you to close it because he couldn't breathe.  If you flew him upside down, he would say Turn Me Over, I can't Fly that way (or something like that).  I remember him being much heavier than this Buzz.  What did I do with that Buzz?  Maybe we sold him.  Poor Buzz--just like the old toys in the 2nd movie!  

Of course the one who was addicted to Toy Story, the one who knew all the words and played the CD-Rom game for hours, was off playing with his friends.  

Tanner and Casey

Spring break week was beautiful.  The boys and Casey spent a lot of time outside.  Tanner took Casey for a walk around the block a couple of times....or rather, Casey took Tanner for a roll.

Casey in the Spring

Casey loves the spring, when she can bark at blowing leaves and attack them.

Anxious for baseball

We just found out that there will be expansion teams in Zach's Little League this year, but his coach from last year asked Scott to be an assistant coach, so Zach is a "frozen" player.  He is automatically on the team without having to try out to be re-drafted.   His teammate from last year, Matt, will also be on the team again.  Matt's an awesome player. His dad will be the other assistant coach--he is the Athletic Director at St. Norbert.  Great family. The head coach does not have a son who plays--his son is older and hasn't played for years now, but John enjoys coaching this age.  Their team did very well last year--they were in first place at the end of the season, but then they lost a playoff game.  Hopefully they will be as successful this year. 

Tanner will have to try out since it will be his first year in Little League. Not really a tryout, but a "skills assessment".  Because of this date, and opening fishing, Tanner did not try out for Team Green Bay.  There were tournaments both of those weekends.  Tan likes hockey, but would never miss opening fishing to play in a hockey tournament.

WAHA cup skills competition

This was an awesome night.  Zach said afterwards that he felt "hyper, from being nervous, all the people in the stands watching" but he just ignored them all and focused on the goal.  Each skater got 3 shots on one goalie...only 4 shots were scored in the first round.  Zach scored one, another shooter scored one, and one player scored 2.  Because there was a tie for the goalies, Zach and the other shooter who scored one got to shoot again.  Zach scored one again, and it was a really neat goal.  It was so cool hearing the crowd yelling "go Johnny!  Go Zach!" and whistling.  The goalie who gave up the 2 goals which allowed the other shooter to win?- our own goalie. 

It was really fun watching the 4 man relay as well.  I didn't realize how exciting it was going to be.  These kids gave it their all, and many wiped out.  Our team did not come in first, but was given a chance to go again to be in the finals, and our first skater was really far ahead, and just lost it going around the 3rd cone.  The next 3 skaters just couldn't make up the time.

Wasuau tournament -

This series of pictures was taken in quick succession.  Starts out with Zach against 2, then 3, then 4, then all 5 of their players.  Poor kid had no puck support--he was keeping possession of the puck all alone.

Zach's Wausau tournament