Goof ball

James has been on call all week and worked the weekend. He was home for quite a while on Saturday, but dosed off on the couch. Molly and I decided to let him sleep in peace. We went to my mom's for a few minutes, then the grocery store, then found dinner at a drive-up, then went back home before he had to leave to his last appointment.

Willie wanted to go to the store with us. He was helpful and pushed crazy Molly in the cart while I loaded the basket. He unloaded the groceries into the car while I loaded screaming Molly in her car seat. He drove through the drive-up window with us and wanted french fries and a courtesy cone. While he ate his fries, I kept stealing them and handing one at a time to Molly.

I told him he could take fries out of another pack since I was taking his. "I'm not about and eye for an eye. I'm above that," he says. Goof ball. Thanks for sharing with your niece.

All things come to and end

Unfortunately in the world of basketball tournaments, it only ends positively for 1 team . . . and that is definitely not Hunter. The Wolverines played this afternoon. Some of them, and one blonde one in particular, played well and played his guts outs. Unfortunately, it just didn't happen for them.

Negatives

• Hunter started out of sync, flat, and in a deficit early. There were lots of turnovers, not enough shots taken, not enough balls rebounded, and just sloppy play.
• Willie, though playing his guts out, getting a few rebounds, and draining a beautiful little jumper from foul line range, didn't get to play much in the 2nd half. Why? Who knows.
• Their just didn't seem to be a lot of heart or enthusiasm from some of the players on the court.
• Coaching . . . Run a zone defense against Hunter and you will win. There's got to be a better way to solve the problem than stalling and shooting 3's (even though we did hit quite a few 3's and that's what kept it as close as it was). Put strange lineups in with kids that are playing poorly and you will not improve. Make a big run in the 2nd quarter, but then don't put that same lineup back in and well . . . whatever.
• Terrible officiating and mega 1-sided foul calling in favor of Bingham. The game was won at the foul line and Hunter never had a chance to get there.
• Bingham has super ugly uniforms.
• The Deseret News gave Willie's points to the wrong Petersen. They gave them to C. PetersOn and he didn't even get in the game. Go figure.

Positives

• Twitter and Facebook bring out quite the Hunter student section. Way to go school spirit.
• Playing on a big floor in a big arena is cool, even if you lose.
• Willie made the tennis team without even trying out yesterday and practice starts tomorrow. Go tennis!
• There was a huge support from the WKP fan club - mom, dad, sisters, niece and nephews, Woods, friend Emily and family, young men's presidents, and even Grandpa and a couple of uncles.

The end. There are some pictures in the D-News, but none of Willie and I didn't want to post them. March is nearly upon us. Brackets will be filled in soon. And then . . . the basketballs will hibernate for a season. Until next year . . .

End of the Regular Season

This is Molly and she is crazy. I think she is just about ready to be finished with basketball season. The last few games have been challenging and she has been a bit of a stinker. Can you see it in her eyes? Or in her cookie crumb mouth?

Tuesday was Willie's last game of the regular season. They beat Granger bringing their overall record to 12-9 and 7-3 in region. We were actually going to almost be on time to the JV game, thinking that Willie may not play much in the varsity game (which he didn't because it was senior night). But, we were late because my mom sent us a text saying, "please bring your camera." We aren't far from Hunter High, but after turning around and getting back it was halftime already. We missed Willie hit a 3 in the JV game. Oh well. He also had a wide open shot at one in the varsity game, but didn't take it (actually, now that I say that, it might have been another game. Hmmm.) The deal was that if he made a 3 in a varsity game his mother would take him to Disneyland. I'm not sure how serious she was, but he never hit one.

Anyway, long story short . . . here are some photos from Tuesday's game.

What's Next? 1st Round of the Playoffs - Tuesday, February 28th - 2:30 p.m. E/Maverick Center - Hunter V. Bingham. Let's hope they can pull it off! If they do, they play West Jordan. I'm not sure they'd be able to pull that one off, but it'd sure be fun to see West Jordan play.

JV Game - Backside

JV Game - Nice Form, But A Miss

JV Game - Timeout, Who are you looking at?

Varsity - Crazy Warm Up Routine

Varsity - Good Defense

Varsity - Molly was a stinker all night . . . and then her drink exploded in her face. It was pretty funny.

Varsity - #44 looking good on the bench

President's Day at Our House

• We had some more fresh snow this morning. Molly slept in until 8:00. She was a bit grumpy this morning. I think her mouth hurts. She bit into a powdered donut and cried. This afternoon, though, was very pleasant.
• Went to Great Harvest to buy some bread.
• Visited my mom and Willie for a few minutes and picked classes for Willie's schedule for next year.
• Molly took a nice long nap and I worked on my chair painting project in the garage. We got a new kitchen table a while ago, but it is black and our old chairs are white. I am slowly replacing the old chairs with second-hand mismatched chairs that I am painting black. Imagine something like this, but in black. The chairs are different, but all the same color. I have a vision for it, but haven't actually brought a single chair into the house yet. I'm slow, not crafty, and we have really dim lighting in the garage (and it was too cold today to open the garage door more than a foot or so.) I hope my vision works out.

House-related side note (has nothing to do with President's day): We also recently purchased a new couch and love seat for our family room. We needed more seating in that room but our ideas evolved from getting a chair of my grandma's recovered, to getting a new chair all together, to purchasing 2 larger pieces of furniture for a much more reasonable price (thank you Furniture Warehouse for going out of business). I had mega buyer's remorse after I purchased it, but now I really like it. It's red. It's leather (or "bonded leather" which is guess is fake leather, but that's ok.) It will look nice with the future black chairs. It looks something like this, but not exactly.

• Back to President's Day . . . James only had a few visits today, but spent another 2-3 hours at the dentist getting prepped for a crown. The dentist was frustrated become James has a cursed mouth. It didn't go well. Hopefully the real crown will go more smoothly.
• We worked on the laundry and put some of it away (though not all of it).
• Molly and I went to Great Clips to get her hair trimmed. I swear it grows at different rates and has been all different lengths in the back. It's been looking scraggily and my uneven bangs trim job last week needed to be evened out. She was a good girl.
• We shoveled the driveway and Molly followed me up and down each pass.
• We made chocolate chip cookies that absolutely failed even though the dough tasted good. I used the recipe on the back of the chocolate chips instead of a regular recipe. They were crunchy pancake cookies. Oh well.
• Because of the weakened condition of James' mouth, we had soup for dinner.
• Molly had a bath, we watched a few Elmo videos, took this picture, and she went to sleep.
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• Molly has a few complete sentences lately. They are: "I want it." "Where is it?" "Is it hot?" Her list of vocabulary words is longer than I can count. Today she was very excited about the "snow" and I thought she might jump out of her car seat when we passed a house with a real "snowman snowman SNOWMAN SNOWMAN SNOOOOOOOOWMAN."
• James went to bed after the 9:00 news.
• I worked on schoolwork that I of course left until the last hours of the 3 day weekend.
• It is now midnight. School tomorrow. Good night!

Valentines Day at Our House

Happy Valentines Day!

Here is how we celebrated:

• I wrote in a lame card to James. I told him Happy V-Day and that we were going out to dinner.
• I had 2 cute little shirts for Molly, but we were running late this morning, so we didn't open them. Plus, they are summer shirts and she wouldn't have worn them anyway.
  
• James had flowers delivered to me at school! He hasn't done that for many moons and it was much appreciated. They are daisies and are very pretty.
• Molly had a fully festive day at school and came home with quite a load of Valentine exchange goodies (we prepared her Valentines over the weekend and she scribbled on most of them before I wrote the names down).
• We went to Hires.
• We stopped at the Family Dollar and Molly picked herself out a Valentine prize. She picked and Easter Egg full of M&M's and a Cars sippy cup.
• My mom and dad came over to bring Molly a Valentine.
• Molly went to bed, then woke up coughing, then went back to sleep.
• James fell asleep on the couch, then went to bed.
• I had computer issues working on a thing for school, so decided to work on our taxes instead. I wrote this post. I'm waiting to see if Molly is going to stay asleep, then I'm going to bed.
• Happy Valentines Day!

... And here's a cute picture of the 3 Amigos at a ball game a couple of weeks ago. I stole it from my mom's blog and it has nothing to do with Valentines Day!