Ben's basketball season

We had such a blast watching Ben on the freshman team this year. They only lost twice in the regular season and lost by one point in overtime in the championship game. 

Ben started every game and played with heart and hustle. 

Here we are watching one of the early tournament games.

Millie waited with me for another game to start.

With JB at another game.

Nona and Papa came to the championship game.

The announcer called each boy's name and it was a thrill to hear "Ben Richards!" over the speaker.

Our bishopbric and other friends also came to cheer him on.

He played through a sore ankle and supported his team when he was on the bench. Max had a tennis match that night and I was texting him second by second updates during overtime. Of course we wished for the championship win, but we were very proud anyway. 

Arts Night success

After 12-ish years of attending Arts Night at our elementary school and entering to win a basket (donating to the cause of the arts program at the school), we finally won a basket!

We put most of the tickets into the Lego basket, but also some into the games basket, which the first grade class helped assemble, so some of my contributions were in the basket. 

The school called a couple days later and JB went down to pick it up, then we captured the kids walking in. 

Here Millie is excitedly telling me that her friend Nora brought in that game.

We don't need all of these games but we have loved trying some new ones together!

Speaking of Arts Night, Millie's class was the only one this year of our children to perform. And she gave it her all!

I tried to sneak photos of Ben and Andrew smiling while they watched her.

And for fun, here's a photo of our elementary schoolers on the way to school this week. It may now be officially spring, but it is still cold and sometimes snowy here. It's been a huge winter for snow.