STATE CHAMPIONS!

We are the Champions! We are the Champions! Quivira Heights defeated defending state champions Centralia in the semi-finals this morning, 23-25, 25-9, 25-21. That meant we were playing in the finals! We were playing Wheatland-Grinnell again. We defeated them this time 25-22, 25-14. We are the Champions!

Cheyenne cheering on the t-birds!

Staci during warm-ups.

Katherine digging the ball

Blocking

Bailea hitting the ball.

Team introductions before the finals.

Amanda hitting.

Brittany, Desa and Katherine ready to receive.

1A State Champions!

Team Picture

The "whole" team!

CONGRATULATIONS 1A STATE CHAMPIONS!

QUIVIRA HEIGHTS THUNDERBIRDS!

Final Four

Quivira Heights played Claflin in the first match of pool play at the 1A state tournament in Hays and won 25-10, 25-17. Their next match they defeated Linn 25-10, 25-17. The outcome of the next match wasn't so pretty. We lost to Wheatland-Grinnell 22-25, 18-25. We still came out #2 in our pool and play Centralia (39-2) at 10:00 Saturday morning. Centralia is who QH lost to in the Championship last year. Wheatland-Grinnell and Hoxie are the other 2 teams in the final four. Good Luck Lady Thunderbirds!

We left at 6:15 this morning. This was Cheyenne on the way there!

Brittany setting in the game against Claflin.

Brittany serving.

Sarah blocking.

My Man

1. Who is your man? Scott

2. How long have you been married? 3 years, 1 month

3. How long dated? 6 years 3 months before getting engaged, engaged for 9 months

4. How old is your man? 27

5. Who eats more? It depends...lately me!

6. Who said "I love you" first? He did

7. Who is taller? Scott by 8 inches

8. Who sings better? Scott

9. Who is smarter? Scott...I got better grades though

10. Whose temper is worse? Scott

11. Who does the laundry? Me

12. Who takes out the garbage? We both do

13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Me

14. Who pays the bills? I do

15. Who is better with the computer? I think I am

16. Who mows the lawn? Scott

17. Who cooks dinner? Me, unless we're cooking on the grill and then Scott does it.

18. Who drives when you are together? Scott

19. Who pays when you go out? Scott

20. Who is most stubborn? Scott

21. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Me

22. Whose parents do you see the most? Mine, they are only 15 minutes away and his are 4 hours

23. Who kissed who first? He kissed me first when he asked me out

24. Who asked who out? He asked me out at Arlen's 10 years ago!

25. Who proposed? Scott, under the mistletoe at my parents house Christmas Eve 2003

26. Who is more sensitive? Me

27. Who has more friends? Probably Scott but we share a lot of friends

28. Who has more siblings? He does if you count his step siblings, he has 6 all together. I have 3

29. Who wears the pants in the family? Scott

I'd tag my friends but no one but Staci keeps up on there blogs!

First Fire

This morning when we woke up our house was freezing. We hadn't turned on our heater yet. Scott decided to start a fire in the fireplace. Cheyenne was pretty intrigued by it.

Scott and Cheyenne enjoying the fire.

Cheyenne excited about the fireplace.

The warm fire was already putting Scott to sleep.

State Bound

Quivira Heights played in the Southwest Sub-State at Pratt-Skyline yesterday. In the first round of the bracket we played Rolla and won 25-14, 25-8. Then it was on to the finals against Pratt-Skyline. We defeated them 25-23, 22-25, 26-24. In the third game of the match we were down 17-24. We came back and scored 9 straight points to win sub-state and qualify for the state tournament next weekend in Hays. Coming back and winning was awesome!

UNBELIEVABLE!

The girls doing their clap and cheer before starting play against Rolla.

Digging the ball against Rolla.

Play against Pratt-Skyline.

Zoe and Cheyenne cheering for the QH T-birds! (Pratty-Skyline is also the Thunderbirds and their colors are navy, columbia and white)

Sub-State Champions!

#1 Fans!

We stayed and watched the first match of the other sub-state at Pratt with Claflin and Greensburg. Claflin came out on top in that match. I have a friend that coaches Claflin and she texted me last night that they also won their sub-state and will be playing at state. So we'll see Claflin again. Looking online we noticed that St. John (who our regular season losses were to) also won their 2A sub-state. It shows a lot for how difficult our league is when these three team, QH, Claflin and St. John all make it to state! That's actually pretty awesome!

A Day Full of Pictures

Yesterday was a day I needed to keep my camera close. It seemed like everytime I turned around Cheyenne was doing or did something cute or funny that needed to be captured on camera. So here is her eventful day in pictures.

She got her shirt off far enough that she got stuck! She was walking around the house like this and then got mad about it!

Since she wanted her clothes off, I took them off. Then she decided to write on herself!

Now we had to take a bath and get the ink off. After she was dressed I let her sit on the sink while I finished getting ready. While I was brushing my teeth she used Scott's toothbrush and got water all over herself. I actually got her hair all up in pigtails today! It made her look so much older!

We had a home visit from Shannon with Parents as Teachers. This was Cheyenne, Shannon and I having a picnic. Cheyenne was a little frustrated that the food wasn't real!

Once we got to work, things kind of slowed down. But it was a pretty eventful morning!

Posts

I tried for 2 days to get pictures uploaded to my posts but couldn't get it. Finally today I got it to work. There are 2 posts from the last 2 volleyball tournaments. Be ready for lots more volleyball because it's DO OR DIE TIME!

GO THUNDERBIRDS!

Regional Champions!

QH won their regional! They had a bye the first round and then played Otis-Bison and won. Then they played Claflin for the championship, and won! They play Saturday at 2:00 at Pratt-Skyline vs. Rolla (15-13) in the first game of Sub-state.

Katherine spiking! Get up!

Brittany setting in the game vs. Otis Bison

Brittany serving.

Regional Champions!!

The Thunderbird volleyball team and their fans!

The Seniors!

CPL Runner-up

Saturday QH played in the Central Prairie League tournament in Kinsley. They started pool play at 9:00 am and finished first in their pool about 2:45 pm. The finals were being played in Offerle so we drove the 7 miles there just to find out they were way behind in this gym and we would have to sit for 3 1/2 games. So, four hours later they finally played the semi-final game against Macksville and won and then played right after that against St. John for the Championship. St. John had beaten them 2 other times during the season. We played a pretty good game but just couldn't come out on top so ended up with second place in the league.

Brittany Serving.

Brittany Setting

Cheyenne had her own little seat on the bleachers and sat there quite awhile and watched the game!

Staci is #7.

Brittany setting in the semi-fianls game vs. Macksville.

Brittany serving in the semi-final game.

Central Prairie League Runner-up!

Surprise Winner

We were surprised about a week ago when we got the mail and Scott received a placque for winning his class at Flatlanders! His class was AS-2, Cruiser Stock. Now we just need to practice on our bike game skills and maybe we'll win more next year!

10 Years Ago Today - 10/11/97

Ten years ago I was 15 years old and a sophomore in high school. It was volleyball season and the JV volleyball tournament was in Chase. I was on varsity so I didn't play in the JV tournament but went to support the team. Several of the varsity players and high school boys were there to support the JV team. Since I lived so close to Chase, a bunch of us went to my house between games. After the tournament I went to Holyrood with some friends that I was going to stay the night with. We hung out at Arlen's (the Lounge that everyone hung out at in 1997!) that night. Scott Hayes and I had been talking in school and writing notes to each other for a couple weeks. This night at Arlen's, before it was time for me to leave he asked me to go "out" with him. I of course said yes and we had our first kiss. Scott and I dated all through high school and college and finally got married in 2004. And here we are today. I never would have thought that on that night in October I was saying yes to the man I was going to marry. It's fun to reminisce about the last 10 years. In fact, it's crazy to think that it has been 10 years! A lot of things have happened. We've changed from the high school sweethearts we were in October of 1997 to the husband and wife we are today in October of 2007. It's been a wonderful 10 years!

(if I can get a picture scanned from when we first started dating I will post it here later)

A Fast Trip to Hugoton

Yesterday Scott made a quick trip to Hugoton to see his family. He got to see his little brother, Jake, for the the first time. Scott said he is a very big boy!

Scott's dad, Craig, and Jake.

Cheyenne and her aunt Joslynn.

A Day in the Park

Cheyenne and I took a walk to the park on Sunday evening.

There wasn't much she could play on in this part of the park. She wanted to climb on it though.

She liked the slide!

Riding the pig!

We found another slide to play on.

She didn't want to leave the park. She liked going down this slide!