Showing posts with label basketball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label basketball. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Basketball season

Well, I’m super late on this seeing that basketball season has been done for about a month now. I could make a hundred excuses why I’m so late. I work two jobs, have three kids, blah blah blah but then you hear it from me nearly every month because that’s about how often I write posts anymore. I’ll save my my-life-is- so-hectic soliloquy for another day.

My husband, Justin, has a slight obsession with basketball, but when you grow up in a state that lives and breathes it, it’s just in your blood. Plus, the fact that he’s 6’4” had coaches hunting him down to play.

This is the second year that Nolan’s played. While he may not be the most coordinated on the team, I gotta say that he shown a lot of growth. He was one of the youngest on the team, which made him look short….something I not used to. He’s usually one of the tallest. 


I’m not proud to admit that my most competitive side comes out at my kids’ games. I mean I’m not one of those yelling-at-the-refs type of parent but I do tell my kids to hustle. Nolan was a great hustler. In fact, I think that sometimes he was more concerned with racing the other kids to the other end of the court than he was in making a basket or anything else. But hey, at least my kid was running, right?


Basketball is a hard sport especially for young ones. I didn’t start playing until I was in middle school and even then it was difficult for me. Ok, I tried out for the team and didn't even know what a lay up was. Yikes.


But do you see my boy having fun with that big ol' grin? Makes those weekly practices worth it after a long day.



Probably the cutest part of the whole season was Campbell wanting to go to every single practice to watch his bubba and wearing Nolan’s jersey from last to every game. He said that he was tricking everyone that he was on the team. He wants to play so badly but we’re going to wait a little longer since it takes so much coordination for him. Landry was the sweetest little cheerleader at every game and it actually really kept her interest, amazingly enough!


We’re so proud of Nolan for this season and how hard he worked.  

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Basketba...nevermind

Well here we were all pumped and geared up for basketball. Shoes-check. Basketball-check. A little guy a geared up for some ball-check. Well we signed up a month ago but the start date kept getting closer and closer. I kept calling and calling but no one would return my calls at the Y. I was getting extremely frustrated. It was the day of when b-ball was supposed to start and we knew nothing!

Finally we had someone call us back and turns out that no one ever put Nolan on a team! We were pretty miffed and then after being told games would be Saturday mornings, they scheduled them at 2:30. Who ever had the brilliant idea to have the 3 yr olds play right smack in the middle of nap time obviously isn't a parent. So we were really debating whether or not we should keep him and just suffer through 8 wks of no nap Saturdays.

Later that afternoon our friend Kenny and Amanda had a birthday party for their little girl Emily at this gymnastics place in Keller. We walked in I just knew that Nolan (who is scared of his own shadow) would not be participating in any of the birthday activities. Justin and I were shocked when he was all over it. I'm talking swinging from ropes, jumping on the trampoline, swinging from bars...this is huge! So I think we might have found our "rebound" sport (no pun intended) and we're going to give this tumbling thing a try. I really think it will help give him self confidence and help with his coordination.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Shoe hunting

We signed up Nolan for basketball! So we had to go out and buy him a basketball and some shoes. They don't make basketball shoes for his size so we just got him some regular running shoes. He was running all over the store because he swore that they made him faster. It was so funny but probably not as funny to other people in the store who he almost ran over. When I told him to put his flip flops back on so we could pay for them, he said, "But I want to be superhero!" Here are some shots of us at the school practicing for his upcoming basketball season.




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