basketball awards

 Ha! I finally found time to commandeer the computer to post some pictures to my poor blog.  Of course, I am doing this after a very long night of work when I should be sleeping, but with Andy's grad school work, I have to take every chance I get.  The good news is that we have ordered a new computer, so we will not have to share much longer and Andy will be able to free up lots of space deleting all the photos I've downloaded to his laptop.

Anyway, this is a very belated post from the end of basketball season.  The boys' teams all saw a little tournament action.  Ewan was first.  Since his team had the most wins, for kindergarten mind you, they automatically played in the "final" against the team with the next highest number of wins.  Ewan's team did not win.  The other coach, of the kindergarten team, got his players to double and triple team Ewan's team's best shooter.  That kept the score down.  That was okay for Ewan.  He got a trophy out of it.  Really, Ewan just needed a trophy so he could be more like his big brothers and have a trophy to display in their room.

Next was Cale's game.  Cale's team, who won one game the whole season, won their first playoff game.  Go figure.  The team was super-pumped with a win.  Unfortunately, they lost the next game.  I can't remember any stats in particular.  I know Cale scored most, if not all of the team's points and played an aggressive game.  You could tell he was upset that his team lost, he's already practicing for next year.

Marcus played at the same time Cale did, so I did not get to see his game.  They did not win.  I think it was hard for some of the boys who are used to winning.  But, the best thing is that they had fun and that their game improved throughout the season.  The team's trophies got handed out at the 4th/5th grade final game, so this photo is missing a few of the boys.  It does include Andy's assistant coach-a student from the school Andy works at that lives in the area.  He had a lot of fun helping coach the team.

a team photo of Ewan

and another

and one of Ewan in action

Basketball has been done for a while.  We have been enjoying the break.  This year, we are trying something new and playing spring sports.  Of course, everyone can't play the same sport-that would be too easy.  Ewan is signed up to play tee-ball and Marcus and Cale will play soccer.  The good news is that Marcus and  Cale should be on the same team because their ages are so close together.  Here's to hoping that everyone's practices to conflict and we can still make our commitment to scouts and karate.