Hoop It Up
The Boys are playing basketball this year for the first time and all of us are really enjoying it. Having a professional basketball team in Oklahoma City now makes it even more fun! Last Friday was YMCA Basketball Day at the Ford Center where the Thunder play. The YMCA team my youngest plays on got to go play basketball on the Thunder court!! Well actually, our sweet coach told us we where going to meet the players! But, bless her, the players where not ever suppose to be there…we just had the opportunity to play on the court, which was still rather cool. Ryan is the unofficial assistant coach so he got hang out down there too while I cheered them on and took pics….
So as we tried to get over the major disappointment of not meeting the team (and after Ryan took off from work and we pulled my oldest from school!), we took a trolley ride through dowtown OKC, went to eat lunch, and later went to the Thunder game.
It was so fun to watch my boys take all of this in. My youngest is very noise-sensitive. The only way we were able to talk him in to going was to buy him “ear muffs”. He wore them the entire game…
We had a blast chanting “De-fense” and clapping our hands when “Everybody Clap Your Hands” played and wiggling Thunder sticks during the second half. We were awe-struck by the size of Yao Ming (we played the Houston Rockets), fascinated by the juggler at half-time, and saddened by yet another loss for the Thunder. Being basketball fans ourselves, my hubs and I are so excited to share these moments with The Boys! I think it is safe to say, four ThunderHeads live under this roof! Though some of my favorite b-ball stars will always be these guys (try to not be too saddened by Little Man’s reaction at the end…and listen for my “oops” reaction 
)…
Shootin’ Hoops on the Thunder Court from Jennifer Marshall on Vimeo.
