Basketball, Warm Weather, and Sick Girl

Yesterday Matt's basketball team had a tournament at Southeast Polk. Unfortunately, they went 0-4. Poor guys, they really do try hard (most of the time :) ). This was the kid Matt got to guard :(...hard to get rebounds beside that, isn't it?:Before one of our games, the Ames Wolves played against a Creston team. The Athletic Director of Iowa State, Jamie Pollard, has a son that plays on the Ames team....we sat by him while we waited for our game to start. I pretended to take a picture of Rich, and focused in on Rich's new BFF Jamie Pollard instead :). He even asked Rich a question at one point in the game. He was texting on his phone practically the whole time he was sitting there...I guess an AD never rests.

You can see Rich working the scoreboard in this one LOL.

It was in the 50's yesterday, woohoo! I scraped all the ice off the driveway finally, and a lot of our snow melted. Do you see what I see in this picture?? That's right, it's grass!

The only bad part of warmer weather: MUDDY DOGS!Poor Gracie is sick. She and Ben had a big day yesterday with Grandma and Don. They went to the 9:40 bball game with us, then went over to Grandma's. Ben had a bday party to go to from 1-4:30, and then Grandma took them to Fun Night at their school. When she got home last night she felt warm, and today has a 103 degree temp and actually took a NAP this afternoon...amazing! Hopefully it's just a little bug and will pass soon!