Heath's Basketball Camp

Last week Heath attended basketball camp. He had so much fun!! He was very excited to go and was talking about it for a few days before he finally got to go. His hour and a half week long camp (M-F, 8-9:30) was full of 3 year olds through kindergarteners. The Laramie high school basketball coach put this camp on. What a fabulous thing for the kids to start getting excited about basketball early...and what patience for a young coach to have these little kiddos for that long every morning! Daddy got to take Heath to basketball camp the first day and he may have been just as excited as his boy!

This is Coach Mountain talking to his youngest group of kids. Heath is the one wearing the camo sweatshirt. They huddled up and listened pretty good at the end of every day and then put hands in for a nice "Plainsmen" yell. For those of you who do not know, the Plainsmen are the mascot for the high school. Coach Mountain was awesome with the kids and Heath had a blast with him. He told us he was a really nice boy and he liked him a lot but not too much ;-)

This was when Heath finally realized that Mommy was there to pick him up. He usually finished up and looked around for a while before he realized that someone was there...not realizing that I had been there for like 30 minutes or so watching. He still has such a sweet smile and loves to see his people!

Heath walking back to the circle with his Sponge Bob basketball. He was so funny at camp. Coach Mountain was working on Heath's dribbling and was trying to get him to focus and concentrate and Heath looks up at him pretty serious and says, Coach, did you know I have monkeys in my room? How do you get back to b-ball from that? He just laughed and said that's great Heath, but let's focus on dribbling right now. He told us how Heath would come with so much energy, more than the other kids, but that they all kind of hit the wall on Wednesday.



Heath trying his best to go for the full extension to make a shot. It took about all he had to get the shot to hit the basket. He was one of the youngest and smallest guys out there, but it was a great experience and we look forward to next year. He had fun and loved his new shirt that he received on the last day and his new Plainsmen basketball. Basketball camp was an overall blast and we are all so glad that he could experience this!