Team Pictures

The basketball team had team pictures.  The girls got dressed up, posed in the large team picture, and then the photographer left before taking individual pictures or Freshman and Sophmore team pics.  So these are the only pictures we got of the girls because I wasn't going to pay $30 to a photographer that wouldn't hang around to take pics of all the girls at once.

But I think these are fun!

Turkey Trot

Courtney entered the Turkey Trot at Snow Canyon Middle School.  There were only 5 of the 9th grade girls who ran the race so Courtney had a really good chance of winning the turkey.  She had a good run but ended up getting 2nd so she didn't win a turkey, but she won a cool shirt!

   

I was at the start and finish to watch and help out.  Courtney started well but then after about the halfway point, she started to text me.  Who runs while texting?! ...Courtney does!  By the time she crossed the finish line she was watching a show on Disney+ on her phone!  Crazy girl.  That's why she didn't win!  But she looked great crossing the finish line.  I definitely don't look that good after running a 5K.



Here is the start of the race..

Here is the finish of the race...

Birthday Dinner

I wanted to post a pic of Bryan's birthday dinner because it was so yummy....kind of.  It was grilled chicken, wild rice, asparagus, and sauteed mushrooms (that's the part I wasn't too keen on).

80th birthday party

We had my dad's 80th birthday party and it was so fun to see everyone.  We had the party at the historic Relief Society building in Washington City.  We kept it simple with pictures of dad and candy corn as table decorations. We had balloons around the room and pictures and a slide show set up by the entrance.  We had a great turnout with people from the ward and a lot of family members.

   
Dad and his brother Eldon.  They are the two remaining siblings.

These are the cousins who came the party along with Dad and Eldon.  There is also a picture just of the cousins. 
  
Here is the cousin picture taken in birth order...I was last.



   
My cute parents
    

Sadie Hawkins

It was the day for Sadie Hawkins (it was also the day of my dad's 80th birthday party).  Ethan's cute date picked them up and they went to House of Jump to play around on the trampolines then went to lunch.  The group is a fun group of kids so they had a blast.

It's informal so Ethan wore his shorts along with the hoodie the girl gave him (that's the tradition around here for Sadie Hawkins, a hoodie).  They went to dinner and then to the dance.  The dance was in a parking garage (another tradition around here but one I think is really weird) and it was shut down early because the kids kept crowd surfing, which isn't very safe when it's dark and you are a couple stories up in an outdoor parking garage.  They went back to someone's house for dessert and then his date brought him home. 

   

   

Basketball tournament

There are only 4 sophomores so some of the freshmen have to play on the sophomore team and Courtney is one of them.  She now plays on the sophomore and freshmen teams.

To start off the season, they had a tournament over at Crimson Cliffs Middle School.  Only the sophomore team went so Courtney got out of school early and went to the game.

They lost and they look like they don't know what they are doing, but they will improve and they had a lot of fun playing.  They girl Courtney had to guard was a foot taller than she was!

   

She made the team!!

So, halfway through the soccer season, Courtney had the idea that she and her friends should try out for basketball.  It's really good for young athletes to play a variety of sports and not specialize.  Studies have found that it helps them develop better if they have a variety of muscle groups working.  So after soccer ended, they tried out for the basketball team.  The head coach works at SCMS so I asked him about tryouts.  He said that they would probably all make it because they need bodies for the freshman team (the 2 best freshmen players were already tapped to play JV).  I told him that none of them have played basketball before and he said he would take them because they are already conditioned to run and that's half the battle at the beginning of the season.

They had a day of tryouts and then the team was announced...they all made it!  So the soccer girls are now basketball girls.  We have a whole new sport to figure out.