March Madness

Hooray for March Madness! We have our own March Madness that goes on around the Weston home. We play basketball and more basketball! Sadie is our favorite cheerleader and does such a great job of cheering for Carson and Kailey and the Calwest teams.

Kailey warming up for her city final game. Because of her ankle injury during her school city final she was unable to help her community team out during playoffs. They managed to get themselves to the city final (thanks to some great coaching :) and Kailey finally felt like she could play on her ankle.
The girls ended up loosing this game by 2 points in over time. A REALLY tough loss for them because it also ended their chance for going to Provincials.

Darcy and Mike did a great job coaching these girls and they had a great season.

The same day we watched Carson's team play in the city finals as well. Our team took the first quarter of the game to get warmed up and then Carson lit it up scoring 15 points (4 of which were 3 point shots) and the whole teamed played well defeating Nose Creek by 11 points to win the Gold!

Darcy and his assistant coach did an amazing job with this great group of boys and he was so happy for them to bring home the Gold. Carson had woken up that morning and said "Mom, I am not bringing home another silver medal because silver means you had to loose to get it." Of all the years Carson has played basketball (this is his last one with Calwest Community Ball) he has never won the gold and has always come home with a silver medal. Not this year!!

Then it was off to Provincials in Edmonton! We ended up loosing in the semi finals to the same Calgary team we beat in the City finals. We didn't have our best game but the boys played their hearts out for the bronze medal. Carson found himself at the foul line with 2 seconds left in the game and they were down by 1 point. He now had the chance to win it for his team! I was laughing from the sidelines because just the week before he had taken his learners drivers license and was telling me that he would rather be at the foul line in a tied bball game with 2 seconds left than take that stupid test again. Here he was - - at the foul line with 2 seconds left. He put the first shot in making it a tied game and then his second shot bounced off the rim. They found themselves in over time. We ended up winning with a nice 3 point shot after a long hard game. Bronze it is.

Carson and his dad at the end of a great Calwest season but he won't get rid of Darcy as a coach that quickly. Darcy will actually be coaching 6 of these boys next year when they play together in High School.
These boys had so much fun together and as I was taking this picture Stephan decided that the coach needed a reward for being so great. Out came the water bottle!

Sometimes I Wonder . . .

So the other day I walk past the dining room and this is what I see!!??

This is Darcy - yes my husband, not my kid! I guess he was wondering what it would be like to play the piano with a bag over his head. He doesn't even know I took these pictures of him because he was so focused on trying to play the piano with a bag over his head. It's not as easy at it looks. I'm just wondering if other people find their husbands doing things like this all by themselves. It wasn't even like any of the kids were around and he was trying to make them laugh. He was just all by himself playing the piano with a bag over his head. Sometimes you just have to wonder . . . what is going inside that bag over his head!

City Finals for Kailey

Friday Kailey's team played in the city finals against Muriel Clayton (from Airdrie). Two minutes into the game one of my best players was out of the game with torn ligaments in her ankle. Poor Kailey! It was killing her not to be able to help her team out with this game. We ended up loosing by 5 points. I have never seen a game where so many balls roll out of the hoop instead of going in. It was unbelievable. The girls played amazing defence and only let Muriel Clayton score 8 points in the whole second half of the game. We just couldn't buy a basket if our life depended on it.

I was really proud of the team. They worked hard and had a great season even if we didn't bring home the banner! Silver it is! Dang we hate to loose but we are always good sports about it.
On another note, a few days before this we went and had an exhibition game against St. Joan of Arc's team (Carson's school). We were tied in over time with about 20 seconds left on the clock. Kailey comes down the court and stops about 4 feet from the 3 point line. We all think she is getting ready to set up a play when out of nowhere she pops the 3 and drains it putting us up by 3 points. The girls were all so excited about this that they forgot to press the other team and so they came back and scored 2 points which still left us winning the game by 1. Way to go Kailey! That shot will go down in history. You should have seen Carson and his friends going crazy on the sidelines when she drained that shot. I wish I would have had my camera because it was hilarious! Carson's friends were teasing him telling him that his sister could shoot better than he could. After the game the coach from St. Joan and the principal came up to Kailey and said "How about we trade Carson in for you!" What a game!

And the Winner is . . . Blue Star!

Jordan and his buddy Grant participated in a cardboard sled race at Mt Norquay (a ski hill near Banff). This event is held every year and our Young Men in our ward love to build their own carboard sleds and see how they stack up to other racers. Grant decided that Jordan and him would have their own sled to race in and so he built the Blue Star with his sister and dad. The first race they ended up tipping over and rolling down the hill. The last race was a free for all where about 20 sleds all raced together. Blue Star came flying out of the gates and started flying past all the other sleds. The fans were going wild (as Jordan and Grant had won the hearts of all the fans being the youngest racers there)! The Blue Star raced past the finish line in first place and didn't even stop at the snow fence at the end of the course. They flew right through the snow fence and kept on going! Good thing they were wearing their dirtbike helmets!


This is Jordan and Grant getting their pictures taken for the newspaper. They got all kinds of media attention after they won the big race! Everybody thought they were so cute! Notice the Young Men from our ward standing behind the little boys hoping to get a piece of the newspaper action with Grant and Jordan.

The fans cheered so loudly when the boys were presented with their award at the end of the night! Oh what a night! On the way home these boys were already planning on building their sled for next year.

All Carson wants for Christmas is Jordan's 2 front teeth??

Funniest story this Christmas! So Jordan is passing out his presents to all of his siblings. He proceeds to give Carson a sports bag. I'm thinking to myself "I don't remember him wrapping anything in this bag for Carson. Carson opens the bag; a gingerbread house (with no candy on it), a clay mud house with grass and rocks on top (made by JJ in his grade 2 class while studying the pioneers) and . . . a little metal tin that sounded like it has money in it. Carson opens the tin and sees a bunch of spare change (about $1.25 in coins) and then "Oh gross!" - Jordan's 2 front teeth (his bottom two teeth because he hasn't lost his top two yet). Jordan had kept his 2 front teeth and put them in this tin with some money. Merry Christmas Carson! Jordan burst out laughing and so did we. "I got you good Carson. I knew all you wanted for Christmas was my two front teeth! Ha Ha Ha!" "Oh by the way - keep the change you filthy animal!" laughs Jordan!

Jordan you crack us all up. We all laughed until we cried! Where does this kid come up with these things??!!

Sadie always gives us a good reaction when she opens a present she really wants. A bed for her American Girl Doll. She didn't think Santa was going to bring her anything on her list because she came to me 5 days before Christmas and asked me to mail her list to Santa. I told her it was too late and that it would never make it to the North Pole in time. Good thing Mortimer (our family elf that calls us every Christmas season) told Santa what she wanted!

All Jordan wanted for Christmas was a Ukulele just like Carson's. Carson got a new tenor Ukulele and so Jordan assumed he would get the old one. "No way" Carson says!

During church that afternoon the bartering started. Jordan sidles up to his big brother and says "Carson, I'll give you 40 bucks for your Ukulele". Carson says, "I'll think about it." Jordan thinks about it and whispers, "The deal is only good until the closing prayer. Then the offer goes down to $20."

"Ok deal" says Carson. Jordan turns to Darcy and gives him a thumbs up.

Kailey is our cupcake queen. She got an array of cupcake making stuff so our New Year diets will be ruined right from the start!

My mom and Kailey on Christmas morning.

Jordan's favorite present (from Carson), a Cavalier shirt from Carson's school. Carson worked hard for the principal to earn this shirt for his brother. Jordan wore it night and day all week until I stripped it off of him to wash it 6 days after he opened it.

Xbox 360 was the present that got Carson excited about this Christmas.

It was nice to go to Church on Christmas Day and enjoy beautiful music and messages about our Saviour.

Merry Christmas!