Retirement! Here We Come. (Well, Don is back to work)
by Vicky Showalter

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

A Summer Week

Celebrating Father's Day at Judy's house.




Basketball Camp
Landon and Scott were at church camp so I got to have Owen for Monday.  Prairie camp in the morning, lunch at McDonald's in IC, then basketball camp with papa at City High.  Tuesday Melissa brought him to IC for another camp afternoon.  Wednesday Landon was home and came to IC for bb camp also.  Fun times.

Owen did the Prairie bb camp in the morning
and City camp with papa in the afternoon.


Landon was back from church camp and
joined papa and Owen at City Wednesday.


And a quick day trip to Brownsburg!  Don was speaking at a camp so I rode along and stayed overnight at Brent & April's and spent the day playing with three of my favorite boys.

Cade & Kasen were at Bible School so
I had plenty of one on one time with Cam.


Kasen attended only for the morning
so playtime with him.

POOL Time!

Movies from the pool!


Monday, June 8, 2015

TEAM USA in Argentina

Don headed to Colorado Springs on May 27 to start training camp with 32 of the best 15 & 16 year old players from our country to put together the USA Junior National Team to compete at FIBA Americas in Bahia Blanca, Argentina.  June 3 I flew out to join him and the team in advance of the June 6 flight to Argentina.


More photos at www.usabasketball2015.blogspot.com



Pikes Peak out our hotel window.

USA U16 team, coaches and staff

Head coach - Don
Assistant coaches Miles Simon and Sharman White



OFF TO ARGENTINA
June 6 we board the bus to the Denver airport.  We have three legs of flights:  Denver to Houston, Houston to Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires to Bahia Blanca.  The trip took a total of 28 hours!






LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
  • GAME 5:  USA 77 - Canada 60   GOLD!!!
  • GAME 4:  USA 119 - Argentina 76
  • GAME 3:  USA 123 - Brazil 83
  • GAME 2:  USA 115 - Dom Rep 51
  • GAME 1:  USA 105 - Puerto Rico 54



















Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Birthday Weekend in Indy - Cade & Brent

Landon and Owen were in our care from Thursday until Monday evening while Melissa and Scott went to Napa Valley for some continuing ed for Melissa.  We picked the boys up from Kids Inc after school and headed to piano lessons for Landon and then soccer practice for Owen.  They stayed overnight at our house and early Friday morning we took off for Chicago for the day.  Yes, the boys skipped school!  Don spoke at a basketball clinic so he dropped us off at the Shedd Aquarium for the afternoon.




We love the 4-D show

And the aquatic show
Waiting outside the aquarium for papa.
From Chicago we headed to Brownsburg, Indiana to spend the weekend with Brent, April, Cade, Kasen, and Cam!  What a surprise when Cade and Kasen woke up Saturday morning to find us at their house.  Happy 7th birthday, Cade!!

BIRTHDAY DAY FOR CADE

Happy birthday, Cade

Breakfast at LaPeep


Our five boys!
After breakfast we all went miniature golfing.

First, apply sunscreen!







Back to Cade's house for some work and play.

Brent mowing the lawn around the pool.

Patio basketball



Brent and April planting some more of their garden.
Birthday supper - spaghetti was Cade's choice.







SUNDAY






Indianapolis Indians baseball game.