Lacrosse Camp

We were a bit hesitant letting Tanner try lacrosse camp after our soccer experience, but he seemed good to go for it (the Y guy also told us we could try and if Tanner wasn't up for it, they would refund the money - so it was really no risk) so we decided to let him try. One of the best decisions we've made in recent memory. He had a blast!

He was able to verbalize a little that the reason he didn't like soccer camp was that there were too many kids (there were a ton). This was a much smaller group and he jumped right in. After the first day he said, "Yep. I'm going back because I love it.". Which made us both feel great for him. He is in the session right before Jake's and Jake has been showing up early for his session and the coaches have been letting him jump into the little kids games which has been great for Tanner. He hangs back a little bit and stays clear of most of the action.....until his big brother gets the ball. Then he is running down the field yelling, "Jake, Jake I'm open.....Jake on your wing...", until Jake passes him the ball.

Jake is a goal scoring machine in his session, but with the little kids he manages to stay in his correct role and passes to the them instead of shooting (which is good, otherwise I would have pulled him out...but he was great with them). Today he passed to Tanner and Tanner shot a goal. He was so fired up afterwards, he re-inacted the whole play for me, even though he knows I saw the whole thing live....but he was obviously so proud of himself, it just made me feel so good for him.

Jake has really been enjoying his sessions as well. He is one for the more experienced kids and is having his way with the field to a certain extent, but is obviously relishing the role, using head fakes and rolling the crease to get open to shoot. He has scored a ton of goals that I have seen and probably a dozen more that I haven't been there for. He is exhausted by the end of camp and is currently upstairs sleeping it off getting ready for football camp tonight.

Jake and I are off to Broncos Football camp at BSU, Marisa is off to swimming lessons with Tanner and Faith, Faith had dance class last night. Jake has sports camp again next week and then the boys both have Y-football camp the week after that (which Tanner is really looking forward to). Somehow Marisa and I both have managed to keep our jobs during the first couple of weeks of the "Summer of Insanity" ....wish us luck!