Basketball and Soccer

Casen's first basketball game was on November 21st against Waller. For home games, the boys are to dress in nice clothes, including nice pants, a button down shirt and a tie. For away games, they are allowed to wear jeans and their team basketball shirt. Casen left home dressed for success. Surprisingly, he was involved in the opening tip-off for his first game. The team all played well, which resulted in a win. 

WWJH for the win!

Stylin' after the game.

Casen's second game of the season was on December 5th in Montgomery. The end result was not favorable, however Casen played well and is continuing to learn how to use his body when defending.

Camden had soccer tryouts the first week of December, right after Thanksgiving break. The coach made some cuts after the first day of tryouts on Monday and then continued with tryouts on Tuesday and during soccer class on Wednesday. After school on Wednesday, the teams were posted. Camden ended up on the JVB team. He was hopeful that he would make JVA, but knew with his injury that might be a stretch. He had mixed emotions about making the JVB team because with making that team, he knew would get a lot of playing time, however he also knew the quality of players was not like what he was used to playing with in club soccer. 

He had his first scrimmage today and I will tell you, the way I now watch him play involves a different level of stress than before. With the increased possibility of his knee dislocating again, every time he plants his left foot, or has hard contact, my heart stops. I am hoping with time, that feeling passes.

I enjoyed seeing Camden and
Cole back on the same team.

Casen had a basketball game on Thursday and then had a tournament in Humble this weekend. He had two games yesterday, of which his team won both of. I was so very grateful they won because that meant they played their first game in the afternoon which allowed both Shane and I to attend Camden's first soccer scrimmage of the season before heading back to Humble for more basketball.

Unfortunately, Casen's team ended up losing both games on Saturday. The team they played in their second game of the day for 3rd place were really good and basically just outplayed our team. Regardless, it has been fun watching Casen and his team play five games over the last three days. Casen had a good time, but it left him rather tired so once we got home, he took a nice nap.