KFalls Upfate

Okay, Tom...here's the deal. There's nothing happening worth writing about. Doug's been pretty much sitting the bench ever since Henley's JV coach got put in jail. The assistant JV coach (Dave Myers) is a genuine All-American douche bag, who doesn't know diddly about basketball. Kids get to swing up to varsity when they post high stats, so JV basketball at Henley bears an amazing resemblance to the NBA...the guards shoot most of the time, and don't really try to get the ball to anyone but the post (Doug is usually playing up around the free throw line). Because the Dearing twins (Eek and Meek) like to throw up 3 pointers, the rest of the kids feel that every time they touch the ball they need to shoot...so there's minimal passing. Doug, unfortunately, is stuck in 60's basketball, and on the rare occasions when he does touch the ball he passes it to open team mates. He did send us a text tonight to let us know that he scored 10 or 12 points...but it was against IV's JV, and I'm sure Henley blew them off the court.

As for the rest of us, Steph's next meet is against OSU on February 7th (in Boise). Your mom and I were going to make a surprise visit to watch her, but there's some kind of lame-ass bird watching convention going on there and the Shilos are booked (we can't afford to get a motel that we actually have to pay for) so that little trip is out. Donald's tally-whacker fell off when he contracted his little bout of fungus-mungus, so Kayleigh's not pregnant (that we know of). Personally, I think she has quite a bit more class than that anyway...I think she'd kick the crap out of Donald if he tried anything.

I'm not sure about Dan and Laurie...I think that they have really limited access to the internet, so Laurie doesn't get to write very often, and doesn't have much time to write when she does have access. I know that she hasn't done anything on her blog for about a week...the only things I've seen from her are the remarks on your blog and a few on mine.

Jeff and Breein? I think Breein took your daughter up to Seattle, and left Jeff at home wondering if he's shooting blanks. He called here earlier tonight looking for Donal...I think they're conspiring against you.

I have to go pick up Doug...so this post is done.

Come on now!

Really North clan? This is all you've got? How can it possibly be that I had the latest post 5 days ago? Are you trying to tell me that nothing has been happening that is note worthy?! Jeff and Breein for all I know you've moved to Arizona and gave the kid up for adoption. Donald, is Keyilighagah pregnant yet? Did Stephanie break another bone and get kicked off the team yet? Did Doug finally get cut from the team and put in the retard class? Come on guys what's going on back home, you never call me and let me know so you sure as heck better at least tell me on here!
Love Ya!

Well...

So not a whole lot new going on over here, hence the lack of news from me. The job is good I guess, at least they're still paying me anyway. Between school, work, and the pathetic social life I have its been pretty hard to find time to get on here and check up on everyone, not to mention adding some of my own writings. Can't really complain though, school seems to be going okay, I really think that if I actually apply myself and study a little bit I should get A's in all my classes. Church is going okay and there actually seem to be a few normal people in my ward, that or I'm changing and becoming like them which I suppose is a serious possibility but highly unlikely after considering what kind of a person I am.
Just so everyone knows...I haven't even been on a date in like a month and things aren't looking up as far as that goes. I did manage to talk to some pretty girls at church today but don't even really know how to ask someone out so I doubt that will go anywhere. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm really looking forward to that girl who is on her mission to get home. I was thinking the other day that I'm not quite sure why we, as a civilization, ever stopped the practice of arranged marriages!? I mean think about it, unless your parents had no sense of who you were or they just had horrible taste, things would work out pretty good. I like to think that Mom and Dad would find me a hottie who would suit me just fine, and then there would be none of this awkward dating business at all. How sweet would that be? But since we cut that out I guess I'll just have to do something someday and somehow get a girlfriend....

So how come nobody is writing? I was taking the heat for not being a blogger and now I have posted twice in a row with no other posts in between. Anyway Stephanie sprained her ankle in Hawaii and Laurie didn't know. She said that is the type of thing I should have put on the blog. So Stephanie had a meet this weekend at Idaho and Washington State. She swam well but her ankle was a factor. She said that it hurt a lot and wasn't able to push off as hard on her turns as usual. She has two more meets the next two weekends and then the conference championships in San Antonio the last week in Feb. Doug isn't getting a lot of playing time in his basketball games lately. He has a game Tuesday against Hidden Valley. We'll see if he gets more then.

2 Trips to McMinnville

So Donald and I went to McMinnville and as I thought Sophie didn't come while I was there. We got home Sunday night and of course Breein went into labor. I decided to go back up to McMinnville on Monday morning after Sophie was born. I grabbed Mom, stopped in Eugene to get Laurie and Leona, and headed to the hospital. We found the happy little family doing well except for Breein's reaction to something in her IV. Her face was red and swollen. I'm happy to hear that all is well now and that they are home again. Breein said that Spartan seems to be tolerating the new addition.

Here she is...

Sophronia Mae North a.k.a. Sophie

New North

As Laurie has already mentioned, congrats are in order to Jeff and Breein for the latest addition to the North clan. Actually Breein deserves all the credit...I'm sure Jeff's input was pretty miniscule by comparison. (Sorry Jeff...I couldn't resist that!) I think we all owe Tom an apology...no one bothered to let him know that he had another niece until sometime late in the afternoon. I just assumed that Janet had called him, so was pretty surprised when he sent me a text about 3:00 wanting to know why no one had been in touch with him. Our bad, Tom!

Just a quick update on Doug's basketball...he's riding the pine. I'm not sure what happened...he had a really good game, and then didn't score a point the next two games. His playing time got cut drastically, and rarely touches the ball on offense. It's almost like the coaches told the point guards to play keep away from Doug. He'll be wide open at the free throw line, and they'll force it inside or fling up a 3 pointer. He's been doing okay rebounding, but hasn't done much of anything else. His next game is Friday...I'll give you an update after that game.