Monday, December 10, 2007

December 7-9, 2007: Casper Mini-Mite Jamboree


Nolan and his Mini-Mite teammates headed up to Casper for a Jamboree (tournament) December 8th and 9th. We drove up on the evening of Nolan's birthday, December 7th in a developing winter storm situation. It turned out that the drive was only partially bad, but the inclement weather caused several people to call-off the weekend trip. As a result, Nolan's team had just 6 players (of 10) for the weekend, and the other Cheyenne team ended up with just 5 (of 11). The kids did great throughout the weekend, playing without many breaks and having a great time playing against 4 Casper Mini-Mite teams.


Nolan (#21) getting ready to pick up the puck and skate it back toward the offensive zone.


Nolan (left, with the puck) and Christian attacking.

Scott (Coach Carp), Nolan and Barrett hanging out at the very nice Casper Ice Arena between our afternoon and evening games on Saturday.

Nolan (with the puck) during the game against Casper Orange, one of the better teams we played all weekend.

After our evening games, most of both of the Cheyenne Mini-Mite teams headed over to the Hometown Buffett at the Casper Mall for a "team dinner." Kelly brought a cake for Nolan's birthday since he wanted to celebrate his birthday one day late with his teammates. We had a great dinner and the kids seemed to have a nice time too!


A hockey helmet and candles on pucks...oh my!

Nolan said he wanted all his friends around to help blow out the candles since they had worked so hard in their games earlier in the day. Nice guy!

Nolan enjoying his cake as an official SIX YEAR OLD!!!!

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