TCC Alumni 3-on-3 Champs

Every year, Trinity Christian College hosts an alumni 3-on-3 basketball tournament for Alumni. There's always the competitive division and the recreational division. My team (Los Polos Locos) is made up of soccer players who really don't have any discernable basketball skills... we're remotely athletic and we like to play.

For the last 5 years, our team has been slowly getting better, and this year (last Saturday)we won the "best of the rest" rec. league title. It's not quite a Connor or Green Bay Packer level of accomplishment... but then, what is?

Other observations from these pictures- man am I getting fat and bald!

Wes and I have great news.......We are ENGAGED!!!

The short story of this: 1.God moved powerfully. 2. We obeyed (Praise God for strength to do so) 3. Now God is preparing us for marriage. And we are so excited!

Mark your calendars. Our wedding date is Saturday, November 19, 2011. :)

Blizzard of 2011

Thought it would be cool to share some pictures from the aftermath of the "Snowpocalypse". Yes, that's a pile of snow bigger than Sawyer (who's now 3 feet tall at age 2). Through some raw man-power, I cleared our driveway... took about 2 hours.

Timothy Christian (the school I work at) has had 2 straight snow days. Here's one amazing picture of a huge snow drift that literally engulfed our middle school entrance:

So there's some from our neck of the woods... anybody else got some to share?

blue harbor photo book

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White Boy Can Jump

What you are about to witness has not been edited or modified in any way. This was streaming video of a Kouts- Washington rivalry game. During the second quarter of play, both teams were changing leads like an Earnhardt- Waltrip Winston Cup Race. Until one player..... and one play..... changed the momentum for good. This comes from the region's(northwest Indiana and southeast Illinois) current rebounding leader(10.2 game), who averages a double-double, along with 1.7 blocks per game followed by 1.6 steals a game. Kouts ending up winning this game somewhere around 75-43. In this back-to-back dunkathon, the second dunk is provided by Kouts player Stephen Keller. Ladies and Gentlemen..... Dr. C, Air Conor, Conor the Stilt, Pistol C........ Conor VanDyke.

The Great White Dwight

Karen shared a link with me, so I thought I'd throw it on to Yous Kids. Looks like Conor, in addition to being an all-around nice human being, is another one of the elite athletes in the Van Fam Clan. Read the full article here.

To further prove that Conor's the man... he's a Packer's fan.

Da Bears!

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Packers Bears - oh my!

Let's all first agree that we refuse to let this divide us as a family...



Now that we've agreed on that, it is time for predictions. Throw up your best prognostication in the comments (reasons are a bonus) and may the best team and predictor win.

Xander Update

Xander just had his one month (and 5 day) check-up. When he came home from the hospital, he was 5 lbs 9 oz.

Well, the boy likes to eat... as of this morning, he's up to 8 lbs 8 oz. The nurses really didn't believe how well he was doing.