Upward

It's basketball season again! Andrew is on the Dragons and Peter is once again his coach. Peter had NO INTENTION of being a coach this year as we are trying to be careful to not overload his or our family's schedule, BUT Andrew went to his first practice to find 11 kids on his team. There were only two teams for his age group and both were really big because they didn't have enough coaches. Therefore, Peter and another dad (one of Andrew's former teammates from last year) bit the bullet and volunteered to coach two more teams to make the league more fun for everyone. So...he is once again coaching. He will be out Monday nights for the next few months. The man with the Dodger's game is Victor, the assistant coach. His wife's son was also on Andrew's team last year. We're thankful that somebody from the team was willing to assist as Peter's team was the only one without an assistant coach when the season started.Upward is a Christian league. The kids pray before the game starts.

They only had one practice before this game but only one kid, outside of Andrew, showed up to the practice because of the snowy weather. So Peter met most of the kids for the first time today.
Andrew takes everything very seriously and got pretty flustered and teary eyed when he missed some shots today or when the other team scored, but we tried to encourage him to just have fun and do his best for the Lord. At the end of the game he said he had a GREAT time and is looking forward to the season. Go Dragons!