BYU Ball BOY

Since Kaden's Uncle Josh works as a strength coach at BYU, he asked him if he would like to come to the Women's Soccer Game last night and be a ball boy! Of course Kaden was way excited about it, and I just prayed he wouldn't go into shy-mode which he often does when he is around unfamiliar people. To my suprise he did awesome, Josh took him onto the field to learn a few moves from the players and he was stoked to run out with one of the girls and throw his ball into the croud. He was the only little ball-person, all the rest were 12-year-old girl soccer players so he was pretty easy to spot as he ran onto the field. You can see him in the picture below running down toward the "Y", he wasn't moving fast enough so the girl finally picked him up and ran with him, it was so funny.

So here the crowd is yelling as all the "Ball-people" are supposed to throw their balls into the crowd. Everyone was trying to coax him to throw the ball out but he just stood there. Then when it was time for the national anthem he just ran in line with the others, ball still in hand. Kaden told us later that he didn't throw the ball because we were too high. Apparently he didn't want to throw it to some stranger, for fear he may never get his ball back :-)
After the national anthem the girls ran into their huddle to do their cheer and Kaden was the last little helper to make it off the field.
He was so excited that he got to keep his ball (since he didn't throw it) and he got a free t-shirt. It was so much fun!! We only made it through the first half of the game because it was freezing and poor Payton was so cold so we headed to the Brick Oven for pizza and BYU beat UNLV 1-0, way to go girls!!!
High fives for Cosmo