Basketball Season

For the first time we had 3 kids in basketball!  Whit played her first winter season of Bantam (Club) basketball and learned SO much!

Here she is shooting:

Insert random picture of Maris and Katelyn at the bottom of Grandpa's pool, checking out the giant ice block

And I got to go skiing!  It was SO cool to see what the 4 big kids have learned!  They are all better than me haha. Even Maris!  I haven't been in 16+ years, so I was rusty but it was a lot of fun. Here's me, Owen, Kate and Whit on the lift, then me with them all and Eric in line for the lift.

Me and Maris

Me, Maris and Kate

Emma hasn't stopped falling asleep while eating yet!!

And back to basketball. Maris did the little Hoopsters class in Spanish Fork and had fun.

By the end she was starting to get some idea of how basketball is supposed to work!

More of Whit- in her defensive position, and taking the ball down to shoot.

She's on the left here, behind the tall girl in black, playing strong defense with her friend Jocelyn. And in the second pic, she got a steal and is running with it.

Whitney with her team and coaches. McKenzie, Kate, Jocelyn, Savannah, ?, Ashelyn, Whit and ?

Owen got to play real city basketball for the first time and it was pretty rough!  Basketball boys are crazy.  Eric coached and had a rough time too haha.  But they both learned some things. Here is Owen shooting in both pictures.

 

Owen's birthday 2021

Always the first event of the year!  But actually I'm starting with this funny picture from camping last fall. Whitney took it and I just got it from the kids phone, so I wanted to throw it in here.

Owen's birthday, the big 9. He was happy to get a video game and a 

I made him a giant ice cream sandwich cookie for his actual birthday- since his party was a couple of days later.

Owen's favorite present was definitely his Lego Millenium Falcon from Grandma, the biggest Lego set he has ever had!

He wanted a Minecraft birthday party, it turned out fun!!

I made the cake to look like a block cake from the video game....

First the kids made special swords. This is Cole, Hunter, Owen and Abby.

Also Kindrick! In front of our backdrop.

Minecraft obstacle course, obviously!!

Then we did a Minecraft treasure hunt, where they had a complete a challenge at each clue stop, and collect Minecraft resources along the way. here they fished:

Figured out a coded message, 

made fishing poles, 

looked through legos for a prize, 

broke open "brick" boxes to find TNT (red licorice)

chipped through ice to find "gold"

Dug up silver out of the ground,

and had a tnt piñata!

Had snacks and cake:

And Ollie came late!

going through the nether portal with creeper balloons!

Final picture!

It was a fun party, and possibly his last themed party!  Very bittersweet. It is so fun but so much work to do them. 

We love Owen!!