RUGBY!!!

On Thursday we had our first 3 Rugby 7's games!  The first team we played was our old team, The Force.  It was weird but awesome.  Weird to not be on that team and for the fact that Nick Soli was now on that team.  But, AWESOME to make them loose their first game!  We went undefeated last year and now they lost the first game of the season to US!  Woo Woo!!  Yeah, we were pretty stoked.  In fact, David even scored his first Try in that game!  So, guess what we did when we got home?  YEP. SHOOT THE BOOT!  SHOOT THE BOOT!  He wasn't excited at first but he was glad to join the club.  It was awesome!  We were so proud.  We were also glad that we weren't on the Force this year because they got the UUUGLIEST colored jersey's ever!  They were Baby poop green and mustard yellow.  Last year they were and Awesome Blue and White.  This year we have amazing Black and White jersey's.  And Spencer Wells is our Sponsor!  A big Thank You to Deseret Pain and Spine!  We are so grateful to him for forking over some cash to help us out.  We love him!

My sports wagon filled to the brim - above.  Quinton and Dennis, our favorite little dudes - below.

 OK, so let me explain this next set of picture's.  Ben in rolling in the ball into the scrum.  Then he is going to pick it up and run it all the way down the field and all of my pictures are going to be blurry because it is night time and my camera does not like to take action shots in low light.  But Ben likes it because it make it look like he's running super fast.  I wish I would have just had it on record.  You never can tell what is going to happen.  I wish someone would just record my life and edit it and give me a perfect version of times like this.

 He taps it down right here and then holds onto the ball because he is also the kicker for our team this year.  He's been practicing.  He needs to practice more on his angels but he's great straight on.

 A quick few word from Coach Jake Ryder.

 And the kick is good!!!

 High 5's to the other team after the game and a talk with Nick. 

 A quick few words between games and we start our next game immediately with the  Highlanders.  Which we ALSO WON!!!  Ben scored 2 Try's and kicked 3 successful extra points.  I think the final score was 29-16.

 Ben has gotten 10x faster than he was last year and can juke the socks off of anyone.  It's really crazy.

 This year they put this theme on every jersey and even the ref's and sideline umps have them.  It is really nice.  They talk about the real meaning of rugby.  In fact the head coach, Jay Day sent out this email after the games telling everyone how great they all did... If you have a minute please ask your athlete what "Let's Do Rugby Right" means to them.  We hope that sportsmanship, fair play, integrity, dedication, compassion, and teamwork are all key factors in defining how to experience rugby right.  It's such a great sport.

 Here is one of Ben's Try's in this game.  Again blurry.  Just look for #9.

 I didn't get any picture's of them playing in their last game because I went live on Facebook for it.  But they played the Brumbies and won 22-11.   I think.   Ben scored 2 Try's in that game also.  I forgot how many extra kicks he had.  It got really cold and windy and even snowed for 2 minutes during the game so I was just trying to not freeze to death.  But I did get a picture of the team coming by at the end to give High 5's to everyone, lead by David.  One of my favorite parts!

 I'm so proud of my littlest rugby player.  He did a great job tonight and join a great group of Boot Shooters!

Rugby Try-outs!

The boys had Rugby Try-outs this week.  It was basically just 2 days of getting together with the couches to see who all was going to play and to see who has played before and who is new.  Then on the 3rd day they split them up into teams.  The fun part though was to see coach Jay Day, get them ready for 40 yard dash sprints.  On the first day he split everyone into two big groups and David was in one group and Ben was in the other.  Then he did them Alphabetically so my boys went first in each group. It was fun to watch.  Ben went first.  Our dear friend Jonah Tuttle was giving him some pointers before he ran.

 There were about 30 kids in each group.  Here is David starting off his group.

 This is the group that is on his team.  Kind of.  We found out that we have our friend Selleck too. He has been on Ben's basketball and football team's that Joel has coached.  So that will be great and River Brooking is our neighbor but we haven't seen him at practice so we don't know if he is going to play or not yet.  We hope so. It's going to be an exciting year.  Ben has really been practicing kicking this year.  I hope it pays off.  If nothing else, I really want the two of them to bond through rugby.  I want Ben and David to finally come together and be friends again through this.  If nothing else happens and they don't win the entire thing like Ben did last year, I highly doubt it, I just want Ben and David to come together.

More Basketball

So this week we only had basketball games.  Monday David was throwing up his shoelaces and there was no school so Ben and Josh headed to the slopes for the day and I stayed hoe from work with David.  On Saturday David had a game against all of his friends, T.J., Taiven, Teysen and Ceedar.  David's team killed them by 20 points.  It was a fun friendly game though.  They all had fun.  Then we left David to go to Teysen's birthday party and we took Shayne, Josh and Ben and drove up to Cedar in the SNOW!  Because Ben had a tournament up there.  It was AWESOME!  Cedar has only gotten snow twice and both times it has dumped at least a foot on them.  It was so great!  I was in HEAVEN!

 Cedar Snow!

 Ben's first game we won by 30 points.  It was crazy.  We were so glad that coach Shaw was actually coaching us instead of the High School kids.  I'm glad he could get a good look at how well Ben actually plays.

 This was our 2nd game and we won it by 20!

This was out 3rd game and we won by about 10.
  This team was from Canyon View.  They were bigger, more aggressive boys.

 This was the foul that took Ben out.  This kid kneed him so hard in the the thigh that it dead legged him.  He was almost in tears.  He had to walk it off.  He also got a bloody nose from this team later.  They were beasts.  But we still beat them.

 Luckily he got some free throws from it.  Ben was 100% on his Free Throws!

 This was on the other end after the half.  After they fouled Ben, AGAIN!  It's a good thing he can put those in.  Ben did a great job and I personally am so proud of him for keeping his cool and not getting frustrated.  He did a great job!

I need to move back here!  Best tasting snow on earth!  This picture of Josh is just an added bonus picture.  He came home from work this way.  Yep.  I'm so proud.

 As we were leaving Cedar City I got a call from David saying that he thinks he broke his nose.  For the birthday party they went to this new Indoor Parkour Park.  It has a bunch of obstacle to jump over and then one long trampoline that ends in a foam pit.  So you are supposed to do flips into it.  You are not supposed to knee yourself in the nose when you land however.  So he got a bloody nose and started to cry, a little bit.  Well, so much for being excited that my kids will get Joel's perfect nose.  Well, they got it but they just can't care of nice things!  Little TURDS!  Now 4 out of 5 of my kids have broken their perfect noses.  Hopefully, when the swelling goes down, it will look alright.