BWFB - Big Weekend For the Boys

We had a full weekend. Beau played in a 2nd/3rd grade basketball tournament at the YMCA on Saturday and Sunday. He played at 10:00, 12:00 and again at 4:00. If we won at least two games, we were for sure playing Sunday based on the other teams in the tourney and their records from the regular season (we only lost one regular season game).

And win we did........both the 10:00 and 12:00 game. Stumbled a bit and lost the 4:00 game........or should I say 5:30 game because that's how far behind they were having the bright idea to only schedule each game for one hour when they were averaging one hour and 20 minutes each. Anyhoo.........I had a Saturday night date scheduled with my lil' guy and I didn't want to miss it. So I was glad when the last game was over for the day.

The reason I had a date night scheduled with Beau? Because Daddy was getting honored at the Class 5A State Basketball Championship in Topeka Saturday evening. It was 100 years of State Basketball Championships in Kansas and Brian, having played on two winning State Championship teams in his high school career,  got to walk out on the court during one of the games for his team to get recognized. Here he is with some of his playing buddies. Awww............so cute.

Anyway, that led me to my date night with Beau. Where did we go, you might ask?  To a WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment for those of you not familiar, and why would you be, really?) event here in Wichita.  Yep. Mom was going to a wrestling event.  Mind you........I've been to several before. When Brian and I were dating, he took me to a few of them. So I wasn't adverse to the fans (GREAT people watching) or what would happen. My hesitation was that this was not a televised match, so I wasn't sure which wrestling superstars would actually be there. I didn't want Beau to be disappointed (and me to be yawning from boredom).

It started at 7:30 and I backed up the babysitter to not come over until 6:45 since we were running behind from basketball. We raced home from bball. Showered Beau. Fed Brenely. Our babysitter arrived and we left. We went downtown, parked, and as we sat in our seats, looked around for a minute, the lights went out and the show started. Perfect timing. Finally.

Then match after match....my son grew more excited. It was really a fun night watching him. There were some decent superstars there, so I was happy with that.  And unfortunately I was able to capture ZERO pictures. Brian had our main camera with him.  My FLIP video camera was confiscated (I got it back as we left). My phone died (too much roaming earlier in the dead zone of a gym). So here we were with no photographic memories. HOWEVER, I stared at my smiling son enough for it to at least be burned in my memory.

And finally..........around 9:45, the main event came on and we got to see John Cena and Randy Orton!!  Two of Beau's favorites, and I have to say...........not so bad for this ole Mama to look at.  "Impressive," as Beau would say.  And that it was. It was a great match between those two, the Miz, and Alex Riley.

WWE ended and we walked to the truck around 10:20. What a long day...............but I had one happy little boy. We got home to find a grown up happy boy who was glad he made the trek to Topeka even if it was without his family.

Then Sunday came around and we geared up for our 4:00 Championship game, only to lose to a team we had beaten twice. Ah well. Wasn't meant to be, but we had a great (albeit tiring) weekend and a really fun basketball season!

And if it doesn't get any better for my two boys...............BASEBALL............here we come!