Friends Forever

Friendships are built that will last forever. L to R Siosi Tupou, Jayley, Gabi Fenumiai. Siosi plays for Thunder Mountain and Gabi plays for Juneau Douglas. These girls have had so much fun together over the past few years. Gabi's a senior. Jayley's a junior and Siosi is a sophomore. Not only have they played ball against each other, but they have gone to girls camp together since they were beehives. The three are a hoot together. We are going to miss Gabi next year:( but we won't miss her on the court!!!

Southeast Regional Tournament

This years region tournament was held in Sitka. Ron and I went for the week. It was so much fun. The Southeast tournament is like no other. Every school (10 schools) fly in by Alaska Airlines and some come via the state ferry. There is no town in southeast Alaska that can drive to the next town. You either fly or ferry. Anyway, all 10 schools come with their cheerleaders, drill team, pep band, pep club, and basketball teams. Everyone is there for the entire week. We get to watch a lot of great basketball, great rivalries, and some great performances by all the drill teams. It is truly unique and very fun! Jayley's team did worse than expected, but she had a great tournament. She scored 24 points in the first game and 34 in the third game. The second game was just a weird/twilight zone game. Jayley had three fouls in the first five minutes of the first quarter. So she didn't play the last 3 minutes of the first and all of the second. Then she got her 4th foul late in the third quarter. Just a bizarre game. She is literally NEVER in foul trouble. She usually ends games with 1-2 fouls. Needless to say her team can't play without her. She had seven points in those first five minutes. They only scored four points without her in 1 1/2 quarters. It was a really sad game and it was against their biggest rival:( but regardless it was an awesome week. The weather was amazing too. We had sunshine most of the day.

Sam and his tape measure

This picture was taken sometime this past summer. Sam for a while there was really into measuring and packing around his tape measure. This picture was on a trip to McDonald's for lunch.

Schoenbar Wrestling

Brent did middle school wrestling this year. He has never wrestled before and he only wrestled part of the season cause it overlapped with KDL basketball. Anyway, he did great!! He took fourth in the region tournament. The wrestling coach told me he wished he wasn't a basketball player because he was a natural wrestler. He said Brent had the three things a wrestle needs:
1) upper body strength
2) quickness
3) smart on the mat

And the best part was Uncle Kris watching him wrestle via FaceTime!!