Basketball!

Gavin is playing basketball.  It is Upward Basketball through our church--which is a MUCH different experience than flag football.  Daddy is coaching and Gavin wouldn't have it any other way.  They learn a bible verse each week and if they have it memorized the next week...they get a star.  Wow...kids have great memories--Gavin can remember almost every verse since week 1 and Nolen even knows a couple of them too!!

He had his first game a few weeks back and it was not so good.  As soon as he walked into the gym and saw all those people...he decided he wasn't playing.  He said it was because he knew that I would take pictures and because he didn't want all those parents to be watching him!  AAAHHHH...he is so my child.  He is worried about what people think about him.  Noooooo....I want him to not care what anyone things....like his Daddy.  He did not play....not one second of the whole game.  Lets just say that it was not a good day in the Gifford household.

This was Gavin at the first game......

And....this is Gavin at his 2nd game....quite a difference!!  We threatened encouraged him and told him that he would have much more fun if he played and that his team mates needed him.  He played and he did great....he even got a basket!

On a side note....I am pretty sure that who ever started Upward is a Gator fan.  All the uniforms are Gator colors....goes perfectly with Eric's Gator hat.  LOVE it!