• Home
  • About
  • Connect
  • Press/Media

The Pinke Post

  • Life in North Dakota
  • Recipes
  • Small Town Living
  • Women In Ag

Posted By Katie On September 25, 2009 1 Comment

Hunter’s fans

Filed Under: Family Values, Small Town Sports Tagged With: athletics, family fun, sports 1 Comment

Over the past week I will have watched Hunter in six basketball games. We are fortunate enough to have family within in driving distance and Hunter has fans at his games.  My parents, Nathan’s parents, my brothers, sister, Nathan, Elizabeth, Anika and I have all been to games. Tonight Anika and I did a road trip an hour north for a game. E stayed home with her daddy for an evening of rock throwing at the lake and early to bed. Hunter rode home with us and it was fun to just have an hour to talk together. This Saturday we will be at our usual Saturday jamboree in a neighboring town. In the above picture you can see Anika’s little legs out of her sleeper. A warm September has led to many hours spent in a hot and sticky gym! Anika handles the warm temperatures, loud buzzers and cheering all in stride. She gets held plenty and fed at halftime breaks!
These pictures were from last Saturday when my siblings joined our family to cheer on Hunter. Joe videotaped. Kirsti and I took photos while taking turns at baby holding. A few people have commented this week when they see Anika at how much her face is changing. She still looks just like her daddy though and is as cute and sweet as ever.
Nathan and Robbie both were on Elizabeth patrol. E keeps herself busy often by playing with her friend Emerson whose brother plays with Hunter. Their favorite bleacher pasttime is playing with pretend food and giving us our personlized concession stand orders. They give us pretend coffee, milk, water, hot dogs and usually some ketchup too. After some playing in the bleachers, E needs movement and we work hard to keep her off the court, instead running the halls outside the gym.
Robbie is a basketball coach so he had some advice to shout out to Hunter last Saturday. And I am an…intense mother who has comments to yell but have greatly improved at keeping my mouth shut. Did you read that statement? Yes I am quieter at games. Not quiet, just quieter. Maybe my grandma will sit by me again at a basketball game. She likes to sit quietly at games and avoided sitting by me at my siblings high school games years ago. When I am about to shout at a dumb call or play now, I remind myself it is elementary school basketball AND I do not want to be refereeing any of these games. So I will just try to be the encouraging but intense mother and not the ref.
Hunter will always have plenty of “advice givers” aka family members cheering him on and reminding him with our shouts to “Rebound!” But that is just because we love our basketball playing boy Hunter James!

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
  • Print
Previous Post: « When Mama Comes Home Tonight…
Next Post: Pumpkin patch roadtrip »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    September 25, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    Hunter looks so intense! Love the photos and the story!!

    Rennae

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Welcome to the Prairie…

I am a mom of three kids and a wife to Nathan. Together we live on the North Dakota prairie, 97 miles from a Starbuck's. I share about family, food, farming and the prairie that I love. I used to commute 98 miles one-way to work but it required too much coffee. So now I am home, consulting, speaking, writing and primarily, juggling family life.
See more of our life on the prairie... Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

Stay in Touch…

Get the news from the prairie delivered directly to your inbox when it's hot off the press!

from my kitchen. . .

Easy steps on how to can cherries

For Your Easy Brunch: Go-To Ham Egg Bake

Double Toffee Coffee Cake Recipe

farm life

Favorite Farm Girls

  • Beyer Beware
  • GOODEness Gracious
  • The Wife of a Dairyman
  • Fresh from the Farm

Griggs Dakota

Visit our 5th generation family farm...

Latest Recipes

How To Make Snowman Sundaes

Real Farmwives & Friends: My Favorite Christmas Entertaining Recipes

Rhubarb Sauce Recipe

More Posts from this Category

Life on the Prairie…

More Posts from this Category

Women in Agriculture

Ladies Night on a North Dakota farm

Sarah Nasello’s Party on the Prairie Giveaway

Debbie Lyons-Blythe of Kids, Cows and Grass & The Need For Organ Donors

More Posts from this Category

Footer

Archives

Categories

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2023 ·Captivating Theme ·Custom Designed by Design Chicky· Log in

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.