Alumni Basketball.

Last night was our Alumni basketball game - a.k.a. - coming to the realization that I'm getting old!!! :) Elena was so excited to go to a basketball game, but I don't think she really understood that Mommy would be playing this time! She got to shoot around with us while we warmed up.

Talk about an excited little girl!

Watching my skillz! Lol!

She wanted to shoot it in the hoop so bad so I gave her a little boost~

She was having so much fun!

Then it was time for Mommy to play~

I opted to go for the knee brace and I am glad I did, it never hurts to be careful!!

We had a blast - but man was I exhausted!! I am so sore today, I used some muscles that I obviously hadn't used in a LONG time! Here is a group shot of the Alumni, the intramural team we played against, current coaches and a couple current players. One player was from North Carolina and another has previously played at Rutgers! Amazing the difference that going NCAA Division II makes - a lot more scholarship money that can bring in players from all over!

After the game I took Elena in to see the locker room. She was in awe. I had so many memories come back to me while I was in there too!

She ran around the room and made sure every locker was closed - too funny!!

Maybe someday she will be suiting up in this locker room to play for the Jets!! Can't wait until next year's game!

Flashback Friday - Basketball.

Tonight is our Newman Women's Basketball Alumni Game. I am slightly nervous considering I haven't really touched a basketball since I got pregnant with Elena - that would be 3 years ago!! I thought I would dig up some old basketball pics to reminisce before getting together with everyone tonight~

I had to dig around in the garage to find my old knee brace! (I'm #15 and Chelsea also had a matching one back in the day!) I doubt that I will be playing hard enough that I need it but I figure I would take it just in case!

Rowe and I~

Senior night~

Kristy, Rowe and I - we played all four years together at Newman~

I have some great memories from playing basketball Newman, especially with all my fellow seniors - class of '04!!

I am so looking forward to seeing everyone tonight! I will let you know how sore I am the next day - lol!! Wish me luck!

Candy.

Today I took a long lunch break to take Elena on a little field trip to Cero's candy shop.

We go to learn all about how they make candy and watch all the steps too!

She liked this giant mixer that mixes the chocolate. (Note that it is empty or there would be no way to let her get this close to it! Ha!)

Look at all those boxes of chocolates!

Hmmm....which ones should we try?

Happily waiting in line for her chocolates!

We got a nice little sampling of chocolates and headed over to share them with Grandpa!! :)

Snow Ice Cream!

My friend Linds gave me this great idea to make snow ice cream with Elena today! All you need is milk, sugar, vanilla, salt and what else...SNOW! :) Elena just doesn't understand why we can't go out and play in the snow when it looks so nice out, if only she understood what a -10 degree wind chill means! This was a perfect chance to let her BRIEFLY go outside and play in the snow. We needed 5 cups of snow so I gave her a measuring cup and a bowl and let her do it all by herself!

Then we brought the bowl back in with our other ingredients.

We then slowly added 1/2 cup of milk and stirred until it was a firm sherbet texture.

Next we added 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tsp of vanilla and a dash of salt and stirred again.

And there you have it!

It was pretty yummy! Elena and I both loved it! :)