Paw Paws Place

Wow what a couple of days we have had, Thursday we watched Luke play basketball and Friday we took both boys fishing. The basket ball game is played out at the Anna Maria Island Youth Center. Luke is playing in the 7 & 8 year old division. Some of the players all played together on the football team a couple of months ago. They played well for their first game, and they were playing the team who has the best two players in the league. They got off to a slow start as it was 12 - 2 before you could take a deep breath. The Luke and his team mates got cranked up and scored 8 straight points and made it 12 - 10 at the half. Luke scored 4 of the 8 points for his team at that time. The 2nd half the other team came back and finally won the game with ease. Here are some pictures of Luke shooting and some are him playing defense as well. Friday we got in the water with the boat at about 9 AM. The tides for the day were really bad as there was only one tide, high at 1:30 PM. That is not rea...

As you can see sports in the Marvin family is a special thing, especially for the kids. I can’t think of a sport that the boys do not or have not played. I would say that Doug is the driving force behind them loving sports especially soccer. In his younger days I am told that he was a great player. I know at one time Manatee HS ask him to be involved in their program. He has coached teams of all ages in the county and enjoyed every minute of it. If you ever have the privilege of going to their home and watch college football you will see what I mean. The living room looks like a big sports bar with three TV’s and three games. Here is a project that they family has completed this past week. As you can see it is a little soccer field for the kids to practice on. You also will see a big skate something for Tyler to skate on. Doug told me that he is in the process of re-doing that also. The only sport my dad ever helped me with was called “lawn mowing”, he would get the push mower out o...