Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Basketball camp

So yesterday was a day I had been looking forward to since last fall. Alexa and I now have something exciting in common, we have both attended Bo Clark Basketball camp. The camp is awesome, and the neat thing is it hasn't changed one bit. They do the same drills, on the same schedule with the same emphasis. I loved Bo Clark camp as a teenager and I remember learning a lot about being a team player, about the game of basketball and really about life in general from being around a great guy like Bo Clark. Bo is the coach of the Flagler College Mens basketball team and has been for a few decades now.
Well, yesterday we got Alexa up and moving early so she could go to work with me and then we could head to Target for some basketball clothes. Yes, I confess this was my idea because I couldn't send my daughter to basketball camp looking like Hannah Montana, it just wasn't working for me. So we got some basketball shorts, threw on a tank top and she laced up her Air Jordans that her favorite cousing Justin had bought her and she was ready. We walked through the door and I began registering her, she ran off and started shooting with some of the guys before I got a goodbye!(painful but certainly reassuring)I spoke briefly with Coach Clark and then went to work. I picked her up afterward and her enthusiasm was building and she had a great time. When I got off work we played basketball again yesterday like usual, it has become "our thing" to do in the afternoons.
Exciting times in the Gatlin ranch as my girl is picking up some athletic abilities and starting to be a lot of fun! I'm so excited and ready to play some ball tonight!
I know what you're thinking, what about P.J.? Well, it is apparent that she isn't ready by the way that she insists on playing with us each afternoon and by the time it's her turn the second or third time she is gone, A.D.D.ed rigtht out of the whole situations, we'll find "our thing" somewhere, somehow(I hope) haha!
Have a great day!

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