Ballgames, Birthday, ER visit & new addition to the McWilliams Family

Let's just say I'm beat!!!! The weekend started off with me having a headache all of Friday but I worked and then Chase's ball tournament started in Paris with a 7:30 pm game against Hannibal. They won by like 10 points. Their game Saturday was at 8 am so Chase and his dad left early and I waited to get Chelsey up and got her to my dad's by 7:30 am and then I headed to the game. Her aunt Megan was coming to pick her up a little later so Chelsey would watch Rhett and Allison while Megan helped her brother get situated in his new apt. in Shelbina.

The game Saturday morning was against Cairo. Let me start out by saying that Chase had two incredible games on his birthday. It was a close game and right at the end, Chase scored 2 free throws that tied up the game at the end of regulation throwing the game into OT. During the 2 min. OT, nobody scored so it went into sudden death. We won the jump ball and after a few times of passing the ball around, Chase made the winning shot.

Chase and I headed to Hannibal to get his new phone, part of his birthday. It didn't turn out to be the most pleasant of experiences. He wanted a phone which required an addtional 24.95 per month for the data pkg which I refused to pay. He wasn't going to get one at all but I put my foot down. Seems like the one he settled on his working out just fine though.

We got back to Shelbina, I took Chase home and then went to check out Chelsey watching Rhett and Allison. By this time my headache was really showing its true colors. I took a nap after taking some medicine and that seemed to help a little. Later that night Chelsey said to me about watching an 11 month old " you can't turn your back for a second, the minute I did he was headed to the toliet". I remember those days!!!

We arrived back at Paris about 4:30 pm waiting for the 6 pm game. This time we played Lancaster. We had already joked with the boys telling them their team name needing to be changed to the Cardiac Kids with all the close games they had played 2 weeks ago and so far this weekend. As they game turned out, Chase scored a 3 pointed which tied the game, we got the ball back and with 1.2 seconds on the clock, Zane went to the line to shoot 2 free throws and made them both. Win number 3 was in the books so this assured us of playing the next day.

The game was over by 6:45 pm so we hurried back to Shelbina to get Chelsey to the movies, ordered pizza and one of Chase's friends game over for his birthday. At some point, I fell asleep on the couch and woke up to the phone ringing somewhere around 11:40 pm. My dad was having a breathing attack so we took him to the ER in Hannibal. It turned out he had pneumonia. All the other tests turned out good so they started a round of I-IV antibiotics and did another breathing treatment and said he would be able to be released for treatment at home. Justin and I got back to Shelbina somewhere around 4:30 am.
Chase started out Sunday by playing at 4 pm against Mexico. It was a very low scoring game but we won, something like 24-19. This put us in the championshiop game against Mid-Mo Suns. Once again it came down to the wire and we won by 1 point. It was a great tournament and I couldn't have been prouder of the way Chase handled himself on the court. And......the Matt and Tara McWilliams Family have added a new addition to their family (Matt is my cousin)......a BOY - Jace Matthew McWilliams, born 3-15-09, weighed 7 lb. 11 oz. and was 20" long. He joins a sister, Callie Nicole.