Basketball Champs!

Coach Travis, Ace, Mason, Will, Michael, Maddux, Everett, Matt, Isaac, Trey

Will had an awesome basketball season!  Not only did his team win the championship, but the entire team was full of his best buddies!  These games were so fun to watch!  Will turned a corner this year and figured out how to be aggressive.  He scored at least one basket every game, but his strength is definitely getting rebounds!  Towards the end of the season he was getting lots of fouls after his Dad would remind him that he could get 5 before he had to sit out.  He fouled out at one game. He came a long way since at the beginning of the season he would barely touch a player from the other team and you would hear him say, "oh, sorry." 

Jake and Ashlee brought their kids to watch his last game in Springville, we love to see cousins and appreciate them coming to cheer him on!

And we couldn't resist a visit to Aunt Jenny's on the way home to snuggle with Nixon!

Jenny just had surgery to have her appendix removed.

Cougar basketball

The 6 Clarks love going to BYU games.  Thanks to Cosmo Club we were able to go to a few games!

Millie had a big social event to go to so Grandpa Jim got her ticket and came with us!  Of course we cheered and got us some Creamery ice cream.  Yum!  I'm pretty sure the main reason Will likes to come to the games is for the Cougar Tails (an enormous maple bar):

Quincy loves to get hugs from Cosmo himself!

They won, by the way, mostly thanks to Tyler Haws :)

Playing for some KFC

Will decided to have a go at basketball again this year.  Boy did this kid play with heart!  He definitely had the most rebounds and played with hard core determination!  We can chalk that up to the incentive of him getting some KFC if he got 10 rebounds! Yep that's what motivated him...some KFC drumsticks! I loved seeing his red sweaty face and tongue sticking out as he focused so hard to play basketball.  We loved watching him play and are very proud of his efforts!  Good job Wilbur!

This is pretty much what Will was doing the entire game:

Sambo the Rambo

Our friends and neighbors, the Banks, gave Sam this nickname almost 6 years ago.  It was soon after we moved into our new house up here.  He was only 4 years old at the time, but they knew right off that he was a tough, strong kid!

Junior Jazz:

I love watching this kid play basketball!  He is aggressive at defending the ball and makes some great passes and shots.  Their team didn't have a winning season this year, about 4-4, but we were impressed with their growth as a team and individually.  They are grasping the fundamentals.  

 

Grandpa Tom came to watch him play and brought cousin Bode.  After the game he took them to the Train Expo!  

School Play:

Last week was his school play on Utah history.  Sadly, I had to miss it because I was in Las Vegas at a nurse training for my job.   But BS took the kids and got some great shots of him in action.  He did great at his part and the dancing and singing.  He played a mountain man.  So cute.

 

 

Jimmered

As mentioned in other posts, our kids are huge Cougar fans. Especially Millie. I don't know where they get it from. I mean, both BS and I are BYU alumni, but we aren't hard core Cougar only fans. We cheer for the U too.
Millie has been a big fan for a few years now. That was pre - Jimmer Fredette. Now she is totally hard core. She has a crush. Even BS has a man crush. Check out these shirts he got for the girls:

With the boys just ending their basketball season, they have really been into the Jazz and BYU basketball games as well.
So, we took the kids to a game last week against Colorado State. It was an awesome game and we had a really fun time! They have the school song memorized and they love to stand and cheer with the band and crowd. Millie is intensely watching them in action:

We are even considering going to Las Vegas next weekend to watch them in the tournament.

But this very moment as I'm typing this post, we are watching them play and they are losing BAD. They just lost Brandon Davies and it's getting hard to watch. BS just walked out of the room and won't even watch anymore! He gets really into his sports.

Here's Will and Sambo during one of the cheer songs during a time out - basically singing Ooo Ooo Ooo... Go Cougars! Watch him after the song...classic Wilbur T. Thomas...in his own world thinking about something and counting who know's what!?
And then there's Sambo - soooo fired up!






Keeping our fingers crossed.
Goooooooo Cougars!

Go Jazz

There's a lot of cheering for the Jazz at our house. Not only the Utah Jazz, but Sam's junior Jazz team. This is his first season playing basketball and he is hooked! He wanted a basketball hoop for Christmas and is really looking forward to when he can shoot hoops in our driveway.
Go Sam!


Of course, he also looks forward to the game treats!