So long single digits, the last child in the Ranc household is 10! Josh turned 10 on March 31st, and we celebrated his birthday tonight. Now as we all know 10 is a HUGE birthday and I think we made it a day to remember. I do believe he got almost everything on his list! Perhaps the highlight of birthday gifts was the insane Nerf gun that Mom & Dad bought him. Jamie & Chris are in BIG trouble, I mean this thing has scope & everything!! Not to mention Mom got him some crazy belt with extra ammo so he can run around like Rambo and not worry about having to re-load... Good Luck to Jamie & Chris! Happy Birthday Josh!! Oh, and he also got so many presents that I had to do it in 3 clips...

So after only one day Lily decided that maybe Lexie wasn't so bad after all... after two days she was down right curious, and on the third day they had decided to be BFF's. This couldn't have turned out any better! I was hoping that Lily would be Lexie's buddy so she wouldn't have to spend her days alone anymore and sure enough they chase each other around the house, wrestle, and as you can see they even cuddle! Even more unbelievable, Kirk actually really likes her!

CONGRATULATIONS CHUCK EWING III!!!! Recent graduate from THE Ohio State University, among his graduating class were James Laurinitis and Brian Robiskie, how cool! This was my second Ohio State graduation now, and they were both equally awesome! Although I must say Summer graduation was much hotter, having it in the horse shoe is an incredible sight! Ohio State definitely knows how to do a graduation ceremony, their speakers are always incredibly funny yet pertinent. Kirk & I wish you nothing but the best in the future, it was a HUGE day and we were so happy to get to be a part of it!

Apparently James & Chris have made such a name for the Ranc family in the Lutheran Basketball world, that a Bethany coach approached Mom at the All-Ohio tournament to see how old Josh was and asked if he would want to play in a tournament the following weekend. Mom said sure, but then realized that this guy had never seen Josh play when she asked him how he knew Josh would be any good he replied "Chris & James are his older brothers right?" and when Mom said "yes" he said "then I'm not really worried about it..." LOL too funny!! Josh would prove him right, he OBVIOUSLY had nothing to worry about. Not only did Josh play SUPER amazing he was given the honor of being chosen as one of six players to make the All Tournament Team AND his team finished second!! They lost to a team who has been playing together for YEARS and year round, so I'm pretty sure they had nothing to feel bad about!

The All-Ohio Tournament was an INSANE weekend, why they held it at a Church in the middle of no where Ohio is beyond me, every one's hotels were about 30min or more away from this place... oh well. St. Paul played great, they finished 3rd and although it wasn't where they wanted to end up it was a great experience and exposure to great basketball!

Ok, so let me start by apologizing that this has taken me SO long...the All-Ohio weekend was SO MUCH FUN!! It started with an all school pep rally at St. Paul, this was by far the best 1/2 day vacation I've ever taken. St. Paul was going nuts because they had never done something like that before. Mr. Lehrke (school principal) was so excited he did a cart wheel (see below). LOL Not only was this pep rally in honor of both the boys & girls 8th grade teams making it to the State Tourny it was also to celebrate the Junior National Honor Society Inductees, and OF COURSE our little brianiac Chris was inducted, AND not only that but he is so adorable that he brought Mom his carnation and gave her a kiss, you should have heard the collective "Awwwww" coming from the other Moms... I should also mention that since then Chris was named salutatorian of his 8th grade class and will receive a partial scholarship to Lutheran West! Way To Go Chris!!!