Dallas Mavericks

It's been almost 24 hours. I still cannot get over it. The embarrassment. The dashed hopes. The nerve.

Our family comes from Ft. Worth. We had a three year detour in Indiana. Basketball is to Indiana what football is to Texas. Our son's obsession with basketball as a young boy rubbed off on us. Our University here has an awesome basketball team. The coach is a member of our congregation, and my husband is the unofficial team chaplain. We go to every home game. We yell...we shout...we make a scene. It is honestly the only fun thing to do in this town. They're winners.

We live in Spurs territory, but are huge Mavericks fans - we know about the players, read the stats in the paper, the whole thing. We rarely get to see a game though, because they air Spurs games here. The playoffs - those we get to see. They were the best team in the NBA. Going all the way this year. Basketball to watch until June. And then they choke. I've never seen such bad basketball being played. Now - nothing left but to learn about the Spurs and root for them. ICK - it wasn't supposed to turn out this way.

It's only a game...it's only a game.

Super Sunday

Today was a terrific Sunday. Our service this morning was excellent, as usual. The sermon was on the conversion of Saul. In light of the horrible events at Virginia Tech this week, and the hateful, anti-Christian ramblings of the lost soul who committed these horrible acts, we were reminded of the similar actions of Saul, before his conversion. A reminder that we are not doomed to remain apart from Christ. Christ can pull us out of the pit of our sinful lives, no matter how wretched they were. All this sandwiched between the joyful Easter hymns!


I stayed home this afternoon, not traveling along to church #2, because I was hosting (along with 5 other ladies) a baby shower for a young woman from church. She's a new Christian, coming into our church with no church background at all. She and her husband have been members several years, and are expecting their first child (she was due yesterday!) She was thrilled that we had a shower for her, and everything turned out great - wonderful attendance - nice gifts. Here is the photo of the centerpiece that I was in charge of. Our theme was Blue Jeans, Boots and Little Boys - Welcome to Heather's New Texan. Many thanks to Jacob for lending his King Ranch boots, lasso (where'd THAT come from?) and his remaining spur from when he was OUR little Texan. We did some outlet mall shopping on the trip home from Austin and found all the other goodies there:)

Have been busy tonight watching the NBA PLAYOFFS!! Hopefully we'll be busy with basketball until June. Spurs were first on our viewing list - they LOST :0) hoooo-ha. Then our Dallas Mavericks next. What chokers - they've got to do better than that if they're going to be the champs. Dirk needs to get busy and play like an MVP :-(

I'm feeling much better today - we'll see if I can make it overnight without coughing. I could use a good nights sleep.

NCAA Results

Defeat...my husband not only out scored me 135 to 96, but he picked the winner. Blast. UNC really let me down - perhaps if I had done some research I would have realized Florida won last year, and then might have picked them to win. There's always next year...Now to watch the NBA playoffs and put all wagers on the Mavericks! Go Mavs...

NCAA Update

At the end of the second round, I'm losing the competition 43 points to 45 points. I've also already lost 2 from the regional round. Time will tell who will take home the prize this year.

In other sports news, Nadal won the Pacific Life Tournament, much to Jacob's groaning.