Jamboree Weekend Fun

Luke and Liam receiving their Teamwork awards at the end of season party

Checking out the awards

Indoor Knee hockey after everyone is feeling a bit better

The "Great Teamwork" awards for Liam and Luke for the 2015-16 Penguin Hockey Season

Daddy as the Mystery Reader at school-not hockey related, but I forgot to post this one last week.

Tigers locker room before the big jamboree game.  Aiden is down on far left (second from the end)

Aiden with his poster and an excited Finn after the game 

My good friend, Kortney, and I with posters.  Kortney's son, Keaton, plays hockey and goes to school with Aiden.

Luke and Liam with their posters before the game

Team Pizza Party

We finished a long hockey season over the weekend.  We began hockey practices in early November and played in the final games over the weekend.  It was a very fun year and the boys learned a lot, but I think we are all ready for a break!  John spent every weekend coaching both boy's teams and often left early in the morning and spent most of the day on the ice with maybe a short break in between games and/or practice.  Finn and I spent many hours taking or picking up the big boys and shuffling them around to various practices and games.  

For this season, Aiden was #7 and played for the Tigers while Liam and Luke (#8 and #9) played for the Penguins.  During their last weekend of hockey, the association sponsors a jamboree where all the teams play each other and they have an announcer with a tunnel, lights and smoke, etc...If you read the blog periodically, you may remember Luke and Liam participating in the jamboree last year.  Each child picks a name that they want to use when they are announced.  This year Aiden was "Aiden the All-Star Carrithers."  Luke and Liam picked a joint name of "Luke The Thunder and Lightning Liam Carrithers."  The Moms make posters to hang at the games with the nicknames on them.

Liam is thankfully doing much better and was able to play in his jamboree game.  He ended up missing an entire week of school from his bout with the flu and high fevers.  He was wiped out by the end of the week and very lethargic.  Thankfully, his brothers only had 24 hour flu cases and we had one sick day with everyone home at the same time!  The doctor put us all on tamiflu and we survived, thankfully.  Thank you to many for your thoughts and prayers, it was a rough week for sure.