After 12 years, Joey played in his last official basketball game.

We had Senior Night last week.

  We celebrated the four seniors on the team.

Unexpectedly, our good friends from our old school all came to watch Joey (and Zachary!) play their last game of the season.

These guys have been friends for years and have been at so many of Joey's birthday parties.

 

Nate and Joey have been friends since they were on the same soccer team in fourth grade.

After the game, the big group of us all went out to dinner at In-N-Out. It was a great night with old friends, celebrating a lot of good memories.

At the end of the season, Joey was awarded Best Offensive Player and Most Valuable Player. What a great ending to his basketball career!

 

After we moved, Ellie got excited about the idea of doing our Valentine scavenger hunt in the new house.

As usual, Andy went all out. It was pretty amazing.

With so many more potential hiding places, some clues really stumped us.

Andy bought a little "escape room" kit online and incorporated that into the scavenger hunt too.

That made it extra fun.

We all love this tradition that started when Ellie was a baby. It will be weird that Joey won't be with us next year. 

 Ellie is on the student leadership team at her middle school. One of the perks of doing ASB is getting to go to Disneyland. Really, it's the number one reason she wanted to join. ASB actually alternates between going to Disneyland and California Adventure. I volunteered to drive before I knew we were going to California Adventure, and I was a little disappointed. I've only been there once and it was definitely underwhelming, but then I realized that was almost 16 years ago! 

Look at those babies! Hannah was three months old and Joey was 2. Crazy!

It turns out they've made a lot of changes and improvements over the past 16 years!

These girls came in my car- Kenzie, Ellie, Taylor and Gianna. Gianna's mom, my good friend Amber, also came with us.

When we first got there, we met up with the whole ASB group. There are about 70 of them altogether.

The kids had a two hour scavenger hunt together, so Amber and I went on some rides. The lines were nice and short in the morning.

After the scavenger hunt was over, we checked in with the girls thinking they would just want to go off and do their own thing together, but they actually wanted to stick with us!

Ellie was tired of her ears, so I happily took them!

The lines got much longer later in the day, but we were able to go on the Radiator Springs ride twice and Soarin' Over the World once, which turned out to be our two favorite rides.

The Cars area was very cute.

The other girls wanted to ride two bigger rides, one where you go upside down and one that has a huge drop. Ellie was NOT interested in either of those so we hung out and did smaller rides.

This ride looked really cute, but it was pretty lame. At least we got the cutest car!

We had a great day, and it made it extra fun that Amber and I unexpectedly spent most of the day with the girls. We're looking forward to going back to Disneyland next year with this group!

 Did you hear...the EAGLES WON THE SUPER BOWL THIS YEAR!!!!

We hosted a little party for Andy's parents and the Meisters. Only people who are die hard Eagles fans, or were willing to pretend to be ones for the day were invited.

We had our snacks, and we were ready for the game!

The very beginning of the game made us a little nervous, but it didn't take long for the Eagles to run away with it. The blow out probably wasn't as fun for other Super Bowl watchers, but we loved it!

The girls didn't make it through the whole game, so they went upstairs once the Eagles' victory was assured. Andy went up to celebrate with them afterwards.