411 The Walters Bunch

  Obviously, now that my kids are all pretty much grown Valentine's isn't as big of deal to them. However, in keeping with tradition, not to mention the fact T still wanted out of school for the day, we still had a mini party.  I told them that this year I wasn't going to get them any candy, normally I get balloons and special treat for each of them, but this year I just wasn't feeling it so I decided I would buy them all pizza (a treat since I rarely allow pizza) and I had some little Bundt cakes to celebrate with. They all said they were fine with that. L doesn't really do sweets, A doesn't like chocolate, and T doesn't like truffles, but they all like pizza. We took the day off and fortunately didn't have any basketball related stuff. No practice, no games, a rare no basketball day. We watched a movie, played some minute to win it games, and just basically enjoyed a nice low key day.  I remember the old days when they were little and we would all make

  All teams have to have a prayer beforehand. The weather this year at State was FANTASTIC! The site was huge so I was able to do my exercise videos in the morning behind the trailer and D could do his stuff in front of the trailer. Once again, even though the weather was nice this time, it was mostly empty so we had plenty of bandwidth to stream our shows. T only had one game most days so we weren't living at the tournament site, which for your sanity is a good thing. For those of you who haven't had the experience of going to a tournament, let me paint you a picture. The venue for tournaments usually has between 8-10 full basketball courts. There will be games about every hour on the hour on EVERY single court. Each court will have at least one scoreboard that not only gives you the score, but will buzz at the end of each quarter, timeout, and half time. It will also track team fouls and, if super fancy, individual fouls. A shot clock is not utilized until college so there is

She is growing so fast 🐈 After our horrendous show at the district tournament last week, our JV B team started thinking that they were better than our JV A team and challenged our A team to a scrimmage. We took them up on that and soundly put them in their place with some humble pie. We didn't even play our starters the whole time and one boy, who usually doesn't do anything more than warm the bench at game time, played two full quarters. Honestly, I was impressed with him because I had never even him get sweaty before since he almost never plays. The final score without us even going all out was 61-32. However, the next day T started not feeling well and as it turns out half our team caught the flu and only 5 people were well enough to play our last game, which meant no subs and 3 of the five that showed up are on the second string and don't play a lot of game time. They lost, but only by 12, which considering everything I thought that was pretty good. T is feeling better