Coach Sandy Encourages

Granny Edds looks on as Sandy explains to Davey how to better get open while playing offence at Saturday’s season-opening Upward Basketball game at Bellevue Baptist Church. She has come a long way since we met. It’s a safe statement to say Sandy saw more sporting events just last year than she did in all the years combined before she met me. Now that she has two sons playing multiple sports, she is becoming quite the engaged fan….and sideline coach.

Six Years Old Boys at Play

This is another father and sons reunion made possible by Photoshop. My photo on the left was a recent gift from my Aunt Donna and Uncle Dusty Embry. There is something very special about receiving an old photo of yourself that you've never seen before. Made more special is the fact that it was taken when I was the exact age that my boys are now. Tools like Photoshop allow us a new way to warp time in a way so that we can compare ourselves to our children.

A Talented Artist

Sandy and I found quite a surprise in Benji’s backpack this week. Here is his crayon interpretation of the Flag-Raising on Iwo Jima. We asked him if he drew it from a photograph he saw in a book, and he said no. He remembered it form a show he saw on TV, “only that was in black and white, and I drew my picture in color.” That ok we told him. This is a pretty awesome picture drawn from memory by a first grader don’t you think?

New Year’s Resolution

For several years now, I have intended to renew my postings to this blog and today I begin again. As the boys got older, maintaining a daily blog became difficult and I became backlogged. I stopped blogging altogether when I went back to work full time. While they understood, our most devoted followers were disappointed to lose this simple daily contact with our lives.  We missed it too. Later, I found Facebook and became a regular poster, but not everyone on there was especially interested in my boys’ daily box scores. This blog is a much better tool for sharing our lives with close family and friends. I still plan to periodically post to Facebook, but this will be the primary media for family communication. I will try to go back and fill in some of the gaps of the past, but my main emphases will be on documenting the present. Thank you for reading! Dave

Game Number One

Trey Davey and Benji’s sports careers began today with their first t-ball game. At this level, participation not competition rules the day. They batted in order by their number, and Trey Davey was number 3. The top photo shows his glee with his first hit. He was so excited at first that he forgot the base order. When the next batter hit the ball up the middle, Davey headed directly for third where he nearly collided with a teammate running from third to first and the infielders chasing the ball. After his first hit, Benji had no problem finding first, second and third base, but as the photo below shows, he drifted a little on his way home.

All Aboard the Wildcat Express

We spotted this playground train in the side yard of a home on Highway 140 in Utica, Kentucky. This grandfather built a train for his first grandchild. Then over time, as he added more grandchildren, he would add more vehicles. He built an antique car and a tractor, and then added a coal car, tanker car and caboose to the train. His last playground addition, and his masterpiece, is the water tower, which doubles as tree house and supports two sets of swings. The grandmother entertains the neighbors by decorating the train for all the major holidays. Now, these are fun grandparents.

Full Stream Ahead

After the fun we had a few days ago at the Yellow Creek Park spray park, the boys lobbied to go again. This time we visited the spray park at Legion Park. This is the one Granny’s Rotary Club raised money to build a decade ago. The spray is on a timer here that cycles about every five minutes. After discovering the on switch located on this pole, Benji was fixated on it. He kept pushing and pushing it even after the water began spraying. During one spray pause, Davey believed Benji wasn’t pushing hard enough and proceeded to help him while two cute young girls looked on.