coon rapids tourney

this weekend's tournament was in coon rapids

with drew down at winter park

with stacey and alex

i was cheering ben on

AND

i became fill in book keeper

i actually had fun doing it -

but it did limit my picture taking for the day ;)

we started out playing anoka

it was a close game

but we won 33-29

this put us playing again soon

so we stuck around and waited for the next game

one of the things the boys love to do to kill time

is to play 'tip' -

they stand in a circle and play a game similar to hot potato -

they have to catch it in the air and release it before they come back down

it probably wears them out more than anything ;)

our second game was against alexandria -

another A team ...

their kids were HUGE!

we fought hard

but our shots just didn't fall

and we lost 15-26

stacey and drew made it back for this game

so i was able to just be a spectator :)  YAY!

losing to alex put us playing ANOTHER game that same night -

3 games ... back to back ...

YUCK.

the entire time i had been watching the brackets.

i knew that we had tickets for the vikings/packers game the next day

and was hoping that ben's team would win/lose

at just the right times so that ben would be able to play basketball

AND go to the game

WELL ...

our game against irondale didn't go so well

we ended up losing 22-44

that put us playing on sunday at 2pm.

seriously.

the worst case scenario.

ALMOST.

the team that we were set to play had been a no-show for the entire tournament.

after getting home on saturday night

we found out that they were just going to give us the win on sunday

and that we didn't even need to show up!

of course ben always wants to play more basketball

so more games is usually a good thing

BUT

this time we were SO thankful

ben wouldn't miss basketball AND we all got to go to the game together!

way to go 6B!