Play by Play

We've had some sad news this week. We found out that my dad has a tumor in his brain and will probably be having surgery within the next couple of weeks. So, please remember him in your prayers. It has been kind of a tough week but we are all trying to stay positive. I will try to keep you updated. We love you dad!

All of us at our house have been battling head colds this past week. Trevin had one at the end of last week, Sean went home from church Sunday with one and I came down with one on Tuesday. Hopefully the other two boys won't get it.


I finally got a decent picture of Tyrel at his game this week. He almost had an interception but it was a little too high. He lost a heartbreaker of a game on Saturday. They were winning 6-0, the other team was about to score and we got the ball on the 5 yard line. Coach for some reason had them do a reverse that close to the end zone and the other team sacked our quarterback and got a safety, score is now 6-2 but we are still winning. The boys played great and held them off for most of the game. Then with 52 seconds left in the game the other team threw a long pass and they caught it in the endzone and beat us 6-8. There was some really sad looking football players at the end of that game but hopefully they can play them again for the Superbowl at the end of the season and beat them. Tyrel has been trying to get the kicker position and he was able to kick off at the game on Wednesday night. He did a great job! They won that game 25-0. He's the green #20.

Travis had some great tackles in his games this week. They won their Saturday game 18-0 and their Tuesday game 13-0. His team is doing great and haven't had hardly any points scored against them the whole season. The boys are going to their first Jr. High dance tonight. They are both pretty excited to go. We'll see if they even ask anyone to dance.

Trevin's soccer game ended in a tie this week 0-0. It was a pretty hard fought game and he almost scored twice, but both teams had really good goalies, so it ended with no score. He got to go to Dad's and Donuts at the school this morning with Sean. Our school does this as part of their reading program. The kids get to take their dad's to school and have donuts and milk and then their dad's read to them until time for school to start. It is very successful and the kids love it!

And Now for Sports....

Since that is what it seems like our life is right now, I'm here to give you the update for the past week.

Travis' team won their Saturday game against the rival Payson team 27-0 and also won their Tuesday game against the Spanish Fork 49ers 33-7 which dashes their hope of having a shutout season.

Tyrel's team won their Saturday game against the Spanish Fork Eagles 34-7 and also won their game last night against the Spanish Fork Broncos 18-0. All points scored by rival teams in all of their games were runbacks on the kickoffs. Tyrel got to be a team captain on Thursday and got to go out for the coin toss (we won and elected to receive) and led in getting everyone warmed up before the game.

Travis and Tyrel's teams both have awesome defenses. In Tyrel's Saturday game, the other team never converted to a 1st down. They lost yardage on almost every play. I lost count of how many quarterback sacks there were. Any night that they don't have games, they have practice, so I am definitely a soccer mom (or should that be a football mom? Oh why not throw in a basketball, baseball, swim team, scout, and band mom also!)

Trevin's soccer team has won their last two games 1-0. Some kid on his own team threw a ball in his face while they were sitting out for a rest and he got a bloody nose (some people's children!) So by the time we got that under control and his coach sent him back in, there was like 5 seconds left. He did play really good while he was in though. Here is a picture of Trevin at his game.

Today is Sean's Birthday (as well as our neice Alli, who is two). He is now the same age as me, yes, I'm a couple of months older than he is. We don't get to celebrate though because he is going on a scout campout tonight with Tyrel. Maybe tomorrow night....... He usually wants pumpkin pie for his birthday treat but I haven't asked him yet. I'd better sign off and go do that. Hope everyone reading this has a great day!

And so it begins.....

Well, I've decided to start a family blog. I don't know if anyone will read it, but since I haven't been so hot at journal keeping for the last, oh, 16 years or so, and since this seems to be the thing to do, I decided to start. I'm hoping I can keep it up!


This probably isn't the best time to start since life is more than chaotic with Travis and Tyrel playing tackle football and Trevin in soccer right now, but I guess there is no better time than the present right.?! Football is consuming our lives with 2 hour practices every night except game nights and games for Travis on Tuesday, Trevin and Tyrel on Wednesdays, and Travis and Tyrel on Saturdays.


The good news is that Travis won his game Tuesday 25-0, Tyrel won his game 38-6 and Trevin won his soccer game 1-0. Here is a picture of Travis. He is #66 and the team they played had the same color jerseys, so that is why you see a lot of green. He is the one blocking right in the center of the picture, it is kind of hard to see his number.

I didn't get any pictures at Tyrel's game because it was too dark and pouring rain through pretty much the entire game. I'll have to try to get some Saturday and load them.

Travis and Tyrel are both in the new Mt. Nebo Jr. High this year and they like school as much as any teenage boy. Travis is in 8th grade and Tyrel in 7th grade. Trevin goes to Mt. Loafer Elementary and is in 3rd grade this year.

Oh, my "Reflections" story about why I scrapbook is featured on this site in case you want to read it. http://www.thewishbladingwell.com/. Look under the "reflections" topic and also look at my pages under the Design Team files as I am a design team member for this website.

Last thing, I'm posting a link to this lady's blog because I think she is hilarious. I hope I can write as good as her when I grow up....http://mom2my6pack.blogspot.com/ Seriously, her life is very interesting but I wouldn't trade my calm, cool, collected children for hers! Read it if you need a good laugh.

Well, it is time for my lunch date with my hubby, so signing off for now. Oh, this blog is under construction and hopefully will be updated within the next few weeks.