Bomber Basketball

I belong to a school so deep with school pride, it’s almost ridiculous. But if you know anything about us, once a Bomber, always a Bomber. In fact, I know plenty of long-time grads who still sport the green and gold logo and not just the ones we wore in high school.

Over Christmas break, my high school alma mater: Richland High School Bombers had an all day tournament against the cross-town rivals Hanford Falcons. My niece Aubrey played in one of the first games at around 2 pm. About 4 games, 2 naps, dinner from Wendys that Jeff and Dallin brought in so we all didn’t have to leave and pay to get back into the games, and 8 hours later……we finally left the gym and headed home to my sister’s house. IT WAS AWESOME! So many great memories of Boys/girls basketball games, State tournaments and cheering on the green and gold (don’t you dare say it’s yellow because it’s NOT, it’s. gold.)

You might be curious or you might not care at all why we are so proud to be a BOMBER and why we were ever named the BOMBERS. See, we live near a nuclear reactor – called Hanford. And if you know your history, you’ve heard of Hanford, one time. They produced the plutonium that was used in the bombs to end WWII. Now I’m not sure how all the school pride got started, but we are definitely proud to play such a HUGE part in our Nation’s history even if you’ve never heard of us.  

And if you don’t really believe me that we still LOVE, LOVE our high school – try this story. Jeff interviewed for a job a couple years ago. The guy was from Richland and was of course a Bomber. One day the office decided to have a ‘wear your favorite jersey’ to work day. Did he pick the AZ Cardinals? No. Any professional team? No. none at all. He wore his high school letterman jacket – Bomber pride.

If you look at my niece Aubrey (she’s behind Dallin on the right with the BYU sweatshirt – also a school we still claim to be our own and hold the highest team pride for). You’ll see the infamous gold ‘R’ with a mushroom cloud. Controversial yes, but we love our school.

Lucas told Aubrey she was no longer his favorite cousin…..silly kid.

Ammon, Lea, Lucas, Calla, Lizzie

We’ve almost had enough – Abbey fell asleep in Ammon’s car seat. I only had one diaper left for Ammon and it was a size too small – hoping I didn’t have to use it. Lea tried to find a comfortable spot between the bleacher rows to take a nap – it was almost 8:30 pm.

 

Don’t you just love the pants!! Classic Bomber pin-stripes. I seriously loved every moment even though I only knew Aubrey who played out of 5-6 games.

Lea loved the half-time dance team. Lucas loved the treats and the other two I think were just happy to go home. Not sure about Jeff, but I enjoyed it. GO BOMBERS! I’ll spare you the fight song – I’ll sing that to myself.