Update

This is my busiest time of year. On top of my usual duties at home and at school, I also coach girls basketball at school. This is my second year coaching and it's something that I really enjoy doing. It's a blast getting to spend time with some of my students outside of the classroom. I have very fond memories surrounding basketball in both middle and high school, so it's fun to hopefully provide those positive memories for my students.

One positive to coaching at the middle school level is that we have a very short season. Since all of the schools in our league are small and have limited gym space, we play a 6 week girls season and then a 6 week boys season. This works out well because those six weeks are pretty intense and by the end, I'm ready for Christmas break! This has been a great season and the girls are 8-1 so far. I'm looking forward to this LAST week of basketball...two practices and two games...and then Christmas break shortly after!

I thought I'd give a brief update on the happenings in the Quinby home and include some pics from my phone.

Last weekend, we went with Jeremy's family to see the Christmas light show put on at Portland International Raceway. Jeremy's dad drove us all in the motor home. We had an awesome time enjoying great food, drinks, and company!

At the PIR Christmas lights

You will notice that Jeremy participated in "No-shave November" this year. The guys at the fire station all sported some funny mustaches for the month. As goofy as it looked, I'm glad that he had to shave the rest of his face for his fire mask to fit properly. Otherwise, he would have looked like quite the mountain man!

Family cuddle session

We have tried to squeeze in as much family time as possible in between work and basketball.

Favorite Christmas movie

I have already watched plenty of Christmas movies including two of my absolute favorites: "Christmas Vacation" and "Elf."

New Christmas dishes!

Lastly, I scored the Christmas dishes I've had my eye on since last year for 40% off yesterday! I'm excited to start using them!

Tomorrow we have big plans including getting our Christmas tree! Happy Saturday!