Saturday, April 23, 2011

Basketball & Shark Fishing













Wow what a couple of days we have had, Thursday we watched Luke play basketball and Friday we took both boys fishing.

The basket ball game is played out at the Anna Maria Island Youth Center. Luke is playing in the 7 & 8 year old division. Some of the players all played together on the football team a couple of months ago. They played well for their first game, and they were playing the team who has the best two players in the league. They got off to a slow start as it was 12 - 2 before you could take a deep breath. The Luke and his team mates got cranked up and scored 8 straight points and made it 12 - 10 at the half. Luke scored 4 of the 8 points for his team at that time. The 2nd half the other team came back and finally won the game with ease. Here are some pictures of Luke shooting and some are him playing defense as well.



Friday we got in the water with the boat at about 9 AM. The tides for the day were really bad as there was only one tide, high at 1:30 PM. That is not really conducive for good fishing. Tyler chummed up the bait and I only had to throw the net three times as we had all we wanted and needed. We tried a little trout fishing by one of the Islands in the bay. We then went to one of our favorite spots only to find someone else there. We decided to head out to a place that we know of where there are rocks. We were shocked as they took down a major 4 post channel marker that we used for a point to read our compass with. We never did find the spot we wanted but wow did we have fun. We were surrounded by Black Tip Sharks, and they were hungry. we caught at least a dozen and Luke caught a cat fish (like his maw Maw does) and Tyler caught a sand Perch and a very large Lady Fish. Tyler seem to have caught most of the sharks, the biggest must have been three feet long. It is hard to see by the photos we took, what you don't hear or see is Luke headed for the top of the seats and me screaming "take the picture before he bites me. We did have a great day (how could you not when you have your grand kids) and the weather was really nice.



Have a Blessed day and be a Blessing to someone. Sunday is Easter Sunday as you know it is the day Our Lord Arose. Go to church and thank Christ for taking on all our sins. AMEN!


“It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God." (Romans 14:11 )

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

A Way Of Life !




As you can see sports in the Marvin family is a special thing, especially for the kids. I can’t think of a sport that the boys do not or have not played. I would say that Doug is the driving force behind them loving sports especially soccer. In his younger days I am told that he was a great player. I know at one time Manatee HS ask him to be involved in their program. He has coached teams of all ages in the county and enjoyed every minute of it. If you ever have the privilege of going to their home and watch college football you will see what I mean. The living room looks like a big sports bar with three TV’s and three games.





Here is a project that they family has completed this past week. As you can see it is a little soccer field for the kids to practice on. You also will see a big skate something for Tyler to skate on. Doug told me that he is in the process of re-doing that also.
The only sport my dad ever helped me with was called “lawn mowing”, he would get the push mower out of the shed and say get it done! I don’t remember having a power mower until we move to our new home in Bradenton.


Have a Blessed day and be a Blessing to someone.


““Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:55-57