Productive Weekend - Tualatin Tournament

This last weekend was another basketball tournament. This weekend’s games were in Tualatin and also Tigard.

The Newberg 6th grade girls played a little tougher competition!!!

Another busy weekend at The Willoughby’s home also. Friday night after work Paityn and I ran to pick up our family Christmas tree. Paul had just gotten off work and was very tired, he worked 12 hours. I had also just picked up Maddux from school and he didn’t want to go back out.

So Paityn and I were off.

We went down to a local tree farm (where we picked our tree up from last year), walked up, looked inside at a couple that had stored inside out of the cold and rain and didn’t see anything at all. We then looked outside at some pre-cut nobles and saw one almost immediately. I had the guy pull it out so we could look all around it and asked him to keep it out while I took a quick look around at the rest of the trees. I yelled back at him and said, “we’ll take that one”…. Paityn and I picked up dinner and back to the house in less than 30 minutes. Not bad for me!!!!

When we got home Paul took the tree off the top of the car, put it in a stand, and took it inside for me. I thought…..wow, one more thing checked off my list!!!

Saturday was a very productive day, actually the entire weekend was good.

Aunt Linda and Uncle Tony came over for a nice visit. They gave the kids their Christmas gifts and we were able to visit for quite a bit. Linda helped me with putting lights on the Christmas tree and we even were able to decorate quite a bit of it. Tony and Paul were able to catch up too.

The visit at the house ended up with Paityn running through the house looking for “beaver treats”….

So Tony’s sister’s husband (Bob) is a professor at Oregon State University and he is of course a BEAVER BELIEVER!!!!!

The last time he was up at our house he gave Paityn such a bad time and they were messing with each other about the DUCKS and the BEAVERS….So Bob had a Christmas gift for the kids, but mostly to get a rise out of Paityn. Both kids opened the gift together and Paityn was scared, Maddux had no idea what was going on. He was just excited to be opening something..It was a book, a BEAVER book. 47 Beavers on the big blue sea was the title of the book. Inside the front cover there was a poem that Bob had written…. Once Paityn finished reading the poem she, went crazy!!!! She went running around the house trying to find the BEAVER treats…It only took about 5 minutes. I asked her when she had calmed down a bit, “ aren’t you a bit concerned that Bob was actually in our house last night”? That just started her off again….

Insert Poem

We all then started getting ready for Paityn’s 1st of 2 basketball games.

The 1st game was at Tualatin High School and started at 3:00 PM. Linda and Tony also decided to come with us. We just love them so much and I know they love our kids!!!!
Paityn played good, quite a few things she still messes up on, but overall I think she is doing great.

The team ended up beating West Linn and then we had to move to Tigard High School for the second game of the day. Linda and Tony had to leave to drive back to Corvallis.



We ended up going to get something small to eat at a local Mexican restaurant and then headed to the 2nd game. By our surprise the girls beat Century, so that meant we were at least in the Championship game on Sunday.

On Sunday the girls 1st game was at 8:00 AM in the morning…(Way to early on a Sunday).

This game was against Tualatin, we found out before the game started that they had also won both of their games the previous day. So we knew we would have to play good to beat them. The girls played great and did end up winning. That only meant that we had to turn back at 3:00 PM and play them again for the Championship.

The 2nd game did not go our way, baskets were not in our favor…..we ended up losing that game and received 2nd place in the tournament.

So far for 2 tournaments the girls are 6-2, not bad at all considering more than half of them are first time basketball players.

If Paityn goes to Newberg High School, it might be fun to watch her play in high school….if she goes somewhere else, that won’t be an option!!!