Now that Baseball Season is Over.....

....it's time to dive into football season.

Jake spent the last two weekends in some pretty high profile football camps. Weekend before last he went to the Gridiron Dreams football camp at Bishop Kelly High School. This camp is put on by a group of former Boise State Players, many of whom play in the NFL now. Jake had to sleep in his own room for 7 nights to earn this one and got it done just under the wire in order to attend. It was a one day camp and pretty expensive as well, but we were pretty desperate to have our bedroom back also.

This last weekend, he did the Boise State Broncos Football camp. He did this one last year and really enjoyed it. It's a really good camp that features motivation talks from the head coach at the end of each day on respect, fair play, paying attention, doing things the right way etc. It's a huge camp (400 kids) and they get to play on the blue turf and in the practice dome which is huge.

Both camps are good and Jake benefits from the

exposure, not so much from the football drills, but from the lessons on how important the fundamentals are, how having the right focus and attitude is crucial to success and good sportsmanship that both of the camps stressed. He did good in all of the football work also. He loves football, loves playing it, talking about it, and watching it. He had a great time talking to the players, getting autographs and taking photos.

Optimist Football starts here at the beginning of August and Jake is already raring to go.