Shootin' Hoops

There is very little I like about winter time, but it does have one redeeming factor. And that is, it's basketball season! Yeah, baby! :)

This year Hyrum made a competitive team that is associated with Tooele High School. Funny story about that... yes, I'm going to tell it.

Hyrum loves basketball as much or more than I do. This summer Tooele High hosted a basketball camp and I encouraged him to participate. The thing was Tooele is not in our boundaries, that would be Stansbury High. Tooele is our rival school. And boy did Hyrum let me know what he thought about that. "Tooele High stinks!" he told me, and he wouldn't be caught dead playing basketball for the Buffs! What's a Buff you ask? It's short for Buffalo and it is Tooele's mascot. Lame, lame, Hyrum pointed out. Now Stallions, as in Stansbury Stallions, that's a cool mascot. BUT, isn't there always a but? Summer boredom won out and he reluctantly agreed to attend the camp so that he could shoot some hoops. Little did he know how much he would come to love being a Buff. Turns out many of his friends from elementary school were at the camp. Because, oh the irony... we used to live in the Tooele High boundaries. After the camp was over he was asked to come back in the fall and try out for the competive team. He made it. He has grown to love Tooele High, the school, the student body, and the basketball coach. Now he wants to get a boundary exception and go to Tooele High. He wants to play basketball for the Buffs. I just laugh and try not to say, "Told you so." The better high school. It's all relative, isn't it? And the plot thickens. Kaylie goes to Stansbury High. She is a Stallion, through and through. I love the good natured school rivalry that goes on under our roof. Never a dull moment. I myself love both schools. Along with Bountiful High, my alma mater! Go Braves!! Ooops, Kaylie heard that. Go Stallions!! Oh, the evil eye from Hyrum. Go Buffs!! Ah, what fun. :)