Weekend Wrap-Up

 Busy week/weekend around here!

Thursday, Kase wrapped up basketball camp. 

He won all three events including beating the coach in knockout! The whole camp was cheering, "Kase, Kase, Kase!" then swarmed him when he swished it after the coach missed one.  He was so happy to earn three gatorades!

We had a fun jam session in the car afterwards. What a great group of boys.

Then I took Kase and a buddy to Pizza Ranch- Kael and Kylee met us there.

Kase's lucky day continued and he hit the jackpot on a game! He won 1000 tickets!

That night we had a parent scrimmage with Kylee's volleyball team for their last practice before we head to Vegas for Nationals!

Meanwhile, Kent was with this crew at baseball.

Friday night we had a family boating night with the Pattersons! Kael has been working a lot lately so I was really glad he took the night off to go out on the lake with us.

All day we thought there was going to be rain but it held off and turned out to be a beautiful night!

Everyone had a blast.

We were pulling into the dock just as rain started so perfect timing! We even saw a funnel cloud on the way home so we were very thankful to have gotten off the water when we did! Came home and ordered pizza and had a fun family night.

Saturday we spent at the ball fields! Kael had work and Kylee had a long morning run up in Ames.  She is just loving her time with the cross country girls.  They ran nearly 6 miles and stopped for smoothies together so it was a great morning for her.

We went 1-1 on Saturday.  Had a great first game then storms rolled in for the second game and made it tough for our pitchers to grip the ball. We had a nice night when we got home though- ordered takeout from Trailside Tap because Kael told us there was guac on the menu this weekend.  Then some neighbor friends stopped down and my dad even delivered us homemade raspberry ice cream!

Heading into Sunday, we were the number 8 seed in the gold bracket, going against the number 1 seed.  We had a great cheering section! Kase was proud to have his cousins, aunt and uncle and grandparents and sister there. (Kael was working then boating with friends).

I think Huston had fun!

We upset the Avengers and won 15-8! Our crowd went wild. We went on to beat the Cubs then made it to the championship game! In the end, we lost 10-7 but the boys played so well overall.  We had never played 3 games in one day before so I know they were exhausted by that last game!

Couldn't be more proud of this group of boys and thankful for the coaches and families who are a part of it with us.

Got the ring!!!!!

Best buddies.

We wrapped up our evening with a celebratory pool party with the baseball team.  Kael and Kylee even joined for a bit!

We all headed to bed tired and happy from a great weekend.  Kylee and I leave for Vegas tomorrow so there will be no Thankful Thursday post this week but look forward to lots of volleyball pictures when I get back!