Fall Football

FOOTBALL SEASON

This football season was crazy with two boys playing!

This was Connor's first year playing and he loved it! We think he actually liked getting all dressed up in his uniform more than he really liked playing!

We were really proud of Connor who decided that he would miss the first three practices because they were on Sunday. He knew that this would mean that maybe he wouldn't get as much playing time and would be behind the other boys in learning the plays but he was ok with that.

This year Stuart played for the seventh and eighth grade teams. His number on his jersey was #15, just like Papa's number, when he was in his glory days.

Stuart is a bit smaller than some of the kids his age, but that doesn't keep him from plowing right into a kid that is twice his size. He's pretty fast and doesn't have a lot of fear. A couple of the other parents and coaches told us that he is so much fun to watch play because he has the biggest heart out on the field. He gives it all he gots!
Coach Schmidt told us at the end of the season to make sure we "hung Stuart on the laundry line to stretch him out a bit before next season and give him piles of pasta every day so he can bulk up". We'll see!

Oliver enjoyed going to the games because then he'd get to play ball on the sidelines with his buddies and his dad. He can hardly wait till he's in 3rd grade so that he can suit up.

Chloe and her dad messing around on the sideline.

Chloe always liked to go to the games because one of her best friends would be there. Her name is Raina and her brother played on Stuart's team. The girls would walk back and forth on the bleachers and make 'grass cakes'.

During Homecoming every year they have a tradition here to go out during homecoming week and toilet paper the town. They toilet paper their school, main street, the elementary school, the police station, the library and all their friends houses.

It's kind of interesting to me because the police supervise them and make sure everybody is safe and not getting into too much trouble. I guess that's good. It's the only time of year that it's allowed, so they get it out of their systems and you don't see the toilet papering any other time of year. The town looks like a mess for a couple of weeks until the toilet paper all disintegrates. If I remember correctly, when I was in high school in Utah we never toilet papered our own school, we would go to our rivals school and do something...but I was NEVER involved with anything like that! :)