{"id":388,"date":"2009-01-25T22:58:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T02:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2009-01-25T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T03:03:10","slug":"a-man-and-his-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/388","title":{"rendered":"A man and his teams&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is our kids 5th year participating in the Upward sports program.\u00c2\u00a0 Literally days after moving here, I met our neighbor who turned out to be the cheerleader coordinator for her church&#8217;s Upward program&#8230;and, I had promised the kids I&#8217;d find Upward as soon as I could.\u00c2\u00a0 I sure did that!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3487\/3226512831_5b33ee5188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Randy giving his last minute pep talk.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Randy coaches Abbey&#8217;s and the boy&#8217;s b-ball team, and he loves it.\u00c2\u00a0 Randy has coached kids basketball teams pretty much since I&#8217;ve known him&#8230;I used to tag along and watch his games when we were dating.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s definitely one of his loves.\u00c2\u00a0 After me&#8230;way after me, of course.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3490\/3226531099_04ee0c7987.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Abbey throws the ball in.<\/p>\n<p>Abbey and Marley both used to cheer in Upward, so that meant 3 games to watch per weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 The girls decided this year that they were done with that, so we&#8217;re down to 2 games ;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3330\/3227367098_ce64533305_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Randy&#8217;s favorite thing about basketball &#8211; defense!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3407\/3226512481_0a56287653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This picture is a hoot&#8230;see how Randy is calmly sitting on the sidelines?\u00c2\u00a0 Not.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3314\/3223416754_9f2bfefda1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ethan\u00c2\u00a0is either listening intently or practicing his zombie look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3345\/3223417062_8969c45f4e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m OPEN!!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3323\/3222561407_bb293a2f30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you SEE the size of this kid that EJ was guarding?\u00c2\u00a0 He actually did a great job!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3076\/3222561349_02b5fc31ab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lainey enjoys some raisins&#8230;the key to keeping her happy during a game involves food and one tiny lollipop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3089\/3223417098_f7a27a06d9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go after that ball, boy!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3384\/3222561295_2019fa303c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Foul shots&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3302\/3222561161_932a1ae6db.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is our kids 5th year participating in the Upward sports program.\u00c2\u00a0 Literally days after moving here, I met our neighbor who turned out to be the cheerleader coordinator for her church&#8217;s Upward program&#8230;and, I had promised the kids I&#8217;d find Upward as soon as I could.\u00c2\u00a0 I sure did that!\u00c2\u00a0 Randy giving his last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}