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Menu for the Week

Tonight- GINGER CHICKEN, SNOW PEAS, NOODLES- I am using Boneless Chicken Breasts for this..

Wednesday night- Sante Fe Foldover

Thursday night- Baked Talapia and brown rice and asparagus

Friday night- ORLANDO

Saturday night- ORLANDO

Sunday night- black bean pasta cancun

Ruta Update

OK so since Basketball season is over I havent posted anything for a long while... I thought I would give a quick RUTA FAMILY UPDATE!!!

This past Friday we left town for the FINAL FOUR games that were in Milledgeville, GA... we watched all of the AA and AAA games.... there were a couple teams that we were better than in the final four so that was pretty fustrating but it was definitely fun to watch all of the game sand fun for Matt to see some of his new coaching buddies that he only gets to see at meetings and tournaments!!

So we were leaving the school for our hotel around 1030 and we heard a horrible noise in the car... in our 2006 chevy trailblazer with only 60,000 miles on it... and then after the horrible noise the car would not accelerate... yes instead of a fun shopping spree we get to buy one of these:

A TRANSMISSION!!! it was horrible we called AAA and 2HOURS Later we had a tow truck come rescue us.... and take us to our hotel.... the next morning we had the sicky car towed to Albany and we stayed at the gym from 11:00Am til 10:30 pm we saw 6 games and 6 different teams named state champs! it was a fun day and one of the basketball families kindly drove us back to Albany!:)

Then Sunday we threw a wedding shower for our friends Anna Marie and Alan...

They are getting maried one month from tomorrow!! It so made me miss getting ready for our wedding!! it is such a blissful time!

This weekend we are headed to ORLANDO!!! I am helping with a baby shower for two of my very dearest High school girlfriends Heather and Stephanie!! This is heather's first! and Steph's second!! we are sooo excited it is a JUFE shower:)

So that is the update for the week!!oh I forgot to tell you I found the greatest easiest pizza recipe... pizza is a weekly sometimes biweekly meal in our home.... so I always am looking for cheap easy ways to make it

here you go....

2 tablespoons of active dry yeast

mix those with 1 cup of warm water (105 degrees)

then after it is disolved mix in 2 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour ( you can use white flour if you want), 2 tablespoons of veg oil, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp salt

and woooolah!!! you have healthy cheap easy pizza!!! yummooooooo

gotta go.. Hari appointment during my lunch break!! I need a trim BADLYYYYY

article about the game

Williams drops 40 points as SCA advances at state tourney

Cameron Williams has another career night as Sherwood wins a state tournament game for the first time in nearly a decade.

MATT STEWART matt.stewart@albanyherald.com
MOUNT VERNON — Cameron Williams exploded for 40 points Thursday and helped lead Sherwood Christian to its first playoff win in nearly a decade.
Sherwood (20-5) was faced with a tough draw in round one of the GISA Class AA state playoffs, but came away with a 72-66 win over Memorial Day — the top regular-season seed from Region 2-AA before a loss in the first round of its region playoffs.
“This was the fastest team by far we’ve seen all year,” Sherwood head coach Matt Ruta said. “A very big test.”
The Eagles’ playoff exam doesn’t get any easier from here. Sherwood faces GISA Region 4-AA’s top seed, Arlington Christian (22-3), Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Elite Eight.
The game will be played at Brewton Parker College.
“The big thing is, no matter how you cut, we’re 32 minutes away from the Final Four,” Rutta said.
Sherwood jumped out to a 24-5 lead at the end of the first quarter Thursday against a smaller Memorial Day team, but the pressure from Memorial Day’s speedy lineup began to wear on the Eagles, which saw their lead cut to three in the fourth quarter.
Sherwood, which also got 15 points from freshman Dequan Green and nine from Wesley Pittman, held on late by making its free throws down the stretch.
“At times we could have folded after being up so big early and having them rush us at the end,” Rutta said. “But we held them off.”
Memorial Day was led by Shaad Wright’s 23.

PICTURES FROM LAST NIGHT'S WIN!!!

Matt brought the tradition of praying with the other team after the game here to SCA! here they are praying with Memorial Day

FINAL SCORE!!! 72-66

look at that HOTTT COACH on the right ... ohhhh baby he came home with me :)

players super excited about the win!!!

Oliva Williams made Matt this sign and I thought it was soooo adorable!! we have so much support from the whole school it is wonderful

Sherwood Christian Academy
Seed: Region 3, No. 2.
Record: 18-5.

Opponent: Region 2,
No. 3 Memorial Day.

When/Where: 4 p.m. today, Brewton-Parker College.
What: First round of state playoffs.
Game analysis: This will be the ultimate contrast in styles. Memorial Day, which was the top seed in Region 2 before being upset in the first round, utilizes three speedy guards and doesn’t have a major contributor more than six-foot tall. Whereas SCA will bring Cameron Williams and his 24 points and 14 rebounds a game to the party.
X-FACTOR: Wesley Pittman. Memorial Day makes a living with full-court pressure. Pittman, SCA’s point guard, will be given the task of controlling the ball and not allowing Memorial to force turnovers.
COACH SAYS:Sherwood’s Matt Ruta — “They are very capable. If we handle the pressure, don’t turn the ball over and stop dribble penetration, we should be good. If they can pressure us and we turn ball over and we let them dribble around, it could be a long night.”
If win: Will play the winner of Region 4 No. 1 Arlington Christian and Region 1 No. 4 Monsignor Donovan.

WE AINT DONE YET!!!!

SCA falls just short
Tiftarea’s Tay Mallory scores 36 points to lift the Panthers past Sherwood Christian in the GISA Region 3-AA championship game.
PAUL DEHNER JR. paul.dehner@albanyherald.com

TIFTON — Sherwood Christian coach Matt Ruta threw every defense he knew of at Tiftarea’s Tay Mallory on Friday.
None of them mattered.
Confronted with a double team in the post, Mallory used his quickness to slip to the rim. Against a strict ball denial, his speed blew him open into the lane. Against the triangle-and-two, he stepped back for a 3-pointer. Against a smothering double team on the perimeter, he stepped back further.
He was the best player on the court in the GISA Region 3-AA championship game on Friday at ABAC in the 72-65 Tiftarea win. And on a night Sherwood Christian star center Cameron Williams scored 37 points, that is saying something.
Casting a shadow on a dejected Eagles bench, Mallory proudly lifted the GISA Region 3-AA championship trophy high in his left hand near midcourt with 36 points in the book.
“A great player like that — it is hard to defend him,” Williams said.
Tiftarea coach Chris Champion would have to agree.
“What a talent,” Compton exclaimed.
Added Ruta, “He’s phenomenal.”
Despite jumping out to a 22-10 lead, Sherwood Christian (19-5) never retaliated after two Mallory-fueled runs left the Eagles as the No. 2 seed out of their region in the Class AA State Tournament. They will now play Memorial Day on Thursday at 4 p.m. at Brewton-Parker College in the first round.
“I knew it would be a game of runs,” Ruta said. “We did a good job on Mallory early but then Cameron Hammonds got in foul trouble. He is the only person I have that can physically match him. That was when they went on their run because we couldn’t match.”
The sentiment went both ways.
In the third game of a series that included both teams winning on their respective home courts earlier this year, the battle between Williams and Mallory lived up to the hype that drew a boisterous crowd to Tifton.
Mallory scored 14 of his team’s points during a 16-9 run to open the third quarter. He knocked down two 3-pointers, hung in the air for a falling bank shot in the lane and skied to the glass for an offensive putback.
Williams countered with a step-back 3 of his own and two determined post moves. He would score 28 of his team’s 40 points in the second half. But once the dust settled, Sherwood was in a nine-point hole at the end of the third quarter. The Eagles would never cut the lead to less than six points in the fourth.
“My teammates got me open, coach is always telling me to be aggressive,” Mallory said. “I knew my teammates had my back.”
Champion would argue those teammates made the difference. With Williams and Mallory in superstar mode, Tiftarea’s Josh Haynes and Colby Czerepinski both scored 11 points in support. Whereas Sherwood got 13 points from Wesley Pittman, second-leading scorer Dequan Green was held to only two points while battling foul trouble.
“A game like this, it can be about the other four,” Champion said. “We got the best of them from that angle.”
This was the third consecutive year in the region title game for Tiftarea, but only the first time it held the championship trophy after consecutive losses to Brookwood, which moved to Region 3-AAA this offseason.
Sherwood finished 4-19 last year and its only region championship came in 2004. Even in the moments following the defeat Ruta would not let the accomplishments of this turnaround season be dwarfed by Mallory’s magic.
“They have some experience we haven’t had,” Ruta said. “They have been to the last three of these. But I am proud of my guys. They fought their tails off. You’ve got to put in perspective where we came from. We were 4-19 a year ago, we are 19-5 right now and a (No. 2) seed going into the state tournament.”

will you be mine

oh gosh ... I love love..... just love it..... especially now being married.... I am ssooo glad I married a gushy mushy guy.... he might not want the whole world know it but he is.... he is always telling me I am beautiful... even when I have just washed my face and mascara is running down the front... even after I finish spinning class and I am possibly the most sweatiest human being.... even when I wake up after falling asleep with wet hair and it is all crazy and curly... yes even at my worst moments he tells me how beautiful I am to him.... he send me sweet and sometimes even sassy emails declaring his love for me while I am at work... He is mushy gushy and IIIII LOVE IT!!!!... because I love love... I love to see a dad buying something for his little girl that she has been asking for and he can't wait to see the look on her face because he just loves her and he always wants her to be happy... I love seing families laughing together... loving each other .....

Tomorrow is a day that our nation will celebrate love... there are little kids bringing sweets and cards to school today to share with their friends.... they will even bring a cupcake to that bully or to the outsider that they have been mean to ... today they will be kind .... tomorrow is a day where we hopefully love all the people around us and say you are vaulable you are worthy of love.... everyone is worthy of our love because they are made by God and that gives them value.... I am a jean snob.... I know I know... I am a budget friendly girl most of the week.... I dont spend more than 20 bucks on anything clothing related except when it comes to jeans..... and then I spend all the money I save on other clothes... oh gosh its bad....and why... I really do think there is a difference ... but I have been tricked before ... by a label... I have bought jeans that had one of the labels I love but they were an imposter a fake.... I thought those jeans where something but they were not.... but if we are alive and breathing we are made by God because he is the giver of life.... well we are all labeled by God... we are all made by HIM.... that means we all have VALUE.... WE ARE ALL WORHTY OF LOVE.... that weird girl ... the kid that eats glue... the cashier at walmart... the janitor at your work place.... the postman... the waitress ... EVERYONE... I want to be more intentional in making the people I come in contact realize their value.. you know stop and listen to them share a funny story with them let them know hey I am interested and let them know they are worthy of GOD'S LOVE and mine... even if I just met them.... I want to make them feel as good as this man makes me feel everyday

I want to see the beauty in each person I meet... and not see how long it took for her to bring out my food.... not see how he cut in front of me when I was running late... not see that weird spot on her face... not see the differences that I have with other people but their beauty and their value... think of it as...get ready for cheesiness..... happy valueable day... ok ok I now that is wayyy too cheesyyy....

know you are valueable

know you are loved

happy valentines day