Saturday, November 30, 2013

A Little Basketball Competition!

We are well into the basketball season here in the south.  Big A is playing on his regular 8th Grade Team as well as with the Junior Varsity Team.  He is one busy guy!  I think Meme T and family eat, drink and sleep basketball.....when they get to sleep!!  On the days Big A is not practicing he has a game or some other related activity.  JR and I try to attend home games and those that are not to far away.  Last weekend we traveled to an away game that was about a seventy minute drive -- over the mountain and through a valley along a little winding road.  This drive is not for the fainthearted!!  Going over to the game we were on the inside of the mountain, which was not so bad as long as JR kept his eyes on the road.  The opposite side of the road was a sheer drop off  -  no guard rail - and no shoulder to lean on!  If you met with misfortune and left the black top, you could plunge hundreds of feet down the ravine to who knows where!!  Vanishing without a trace!!  So, being the "brave" person that I am, I refused to travel home in the dark along that suicide highway.  Fortunately, most parties agreed and we came back a different route that allowed us to keep down our dinner!!  I get dizzy still thinking about that road - the perfect setting for an Alfred Hitchcock movie!! 

Back to basketball, below are various pictures from some of Big A's basketball games - ENJOY11





Here's the starting line-up.  That's Big A up front - #33 - the tallest one!  That's JR with the cap on talking to someone in a cowboy hat.



Big A is moving out on to the court.  He's a blur!!




Oops - have to stop and say "hi" to "Wee Bob"!  Wee Bob will call Big A's name during the game and point his cute little fingers at him.  Go Big A!! (That's Papa T holding Wee Bob - I think Meme T was selling snacks at the concession stand.)



When things get a bit slow, Wee Bob will take a break and drink JR's "Dew". That is "Pooh" to the left with a dab of red hair (she decided to try something different and I have to say she succeeded) and "Bob" to the right in the black.  I think the hand you see up close is JR's. His hands are very photogenic!!




 Wee Bob is checking out the "chicks" - "Would you like to share my juice pretty girl??"




There's Meme T!!  She didn't have to work in the concession stand during this game. Hooray!!




That's Big A jumping to make a basket.  2 Seconds on the clock -  Shoot! Shoot!  Shoot!
(I had to revert to Facebook since I missed taking this picture - It's hard to yell and click at the same time!)


 During this game Wee Bob is enjoying a candy pacifier while he sits with Bob.  (Candy pacifiers are very, very, very, very messy!  Now wonder who bought that for him??) Wee Bob is pretending not to be checking out that pretty little redhead to the left of him!!  But he sure did a lot of eyeballing when he didn't think we were watching!!
 
 
When the games begin to get long, the pretty little girls all leave, or Big A has been benched, there is always JR's lap to sit in and snacks to nibble on!! Oh, the sweet life of a toddler!!
 
 
Now you know why so many evenings are spent at Big A's basketball games.  Good people, good food, good drink, and good fun!!  So what if I am bleary eyed at work the next day..... So what if I have trouble keeping awake at my computer ...... So what if I don't hear the alarm clock......So what if I want to crawl into a ball and sleep.....So what if I am going deaf from all the screaming....So what if I am tempted to call in sick......(I didn't really say that did I?)..............?????
 
THE GAME MUST GO ON !!!!!!
 
See you all soon.....
Love,
Dee Dee
 


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