Coaching the Brick Masons

Pathetic name huh!  I guess the city ran out of team names by the time they got to naming the 11th and 12th grade teams because all of them have stupid names.  Tyrel got a few of his friends together to make a team this year.

 They wanted Travis to coach and Travis was so super excited to wear his suit like Jerry Sloan and coach the team.  We figured it would be ok since he was 18, but the city said no that they thought he would cause fights with the other coaches (Really??  They apparently don't know Travis, he is one of the most mellow even tempered people around).

So anyway, they talked Sean into it, which is good anyway since Travis has had to work almost every game.  They haven't done so well, but they have had fun and Travis did get to be the assistant coach and help with one game.  Sean wouldn't let them dribble the ball at their last game and they came really close to winning by just doing passes and no dribbling.  

 We'll see if they can pull off a win next time.  He didn't have them do it until half time, they were down by 20 and got to within 2, but then lost by 7 at the end.

Super Bowl Sunday and PINTEREST

So, for those of you that don't know, I have a confession to make, I'm addicted to Pinterest.  For those of you that don't know, it is like a virtual bulletin board.  Instead of bookmarking the sites you like and then wondering why you bookmarked them, you can create boards with different subjects that interest you and "pin" images from the internet to the boards and then if you go back and click on it, it will take you back to the site. 

 For instance, if you find a recipe you like, you "pin" the image to your food board and then when you need to find it again, you simply glance at the pictures on your board, click on it, and it will take you back to the site with the recipe.  

Super cool huh!  It has crafts and decorating and recipes and clothes and photo tips and pretty much everything you would ever want!  Plus, you can follow your friends pins and repin them to your board if you want.  So, speaking of football (above) and Pinterest, I found this recipe for oatmeal cream cookies that were decorated like footballs for superbowl party snacks.  I thought they looked super cute, but my boys demanded homemade oreo's as their football snack.  So, I made my oreos football shaped.  They were more just oblong, but they tasted oh so yummy!  Not the best picture, but you can see it below.

We didn’t really have a team in the running this year.  The Steelers lost so we were then rooting for the Broncos to make it, but they didn’t get there either.  

Sean cheered for the Patriots because it is against his nature to cheer for any New York Teams.  The rest of us cheered for the  Giants becase we don’t like Tom Brady. In the end, it didn’t realy matter who won though.

Our favorite commercial this year was the m&m comercial.

Our game food was

tacos de carnitas

Brazilian Limeade

nachos

crackers and dip

chips and salsa

and

I made these fun football cookies that really didn’t turn out to be fotball shaped, but they tasted oh so yummy!  

We didn’t have anyone over so we just watched it on the big scren ourselves and enjoyed spending time together as a family.

Hopefully next year one of our teams will make it to the Super Bowl so we can have something to cheer for other than good snacks.

SUPERBOWL  XLVI

February 5, 2012

Played in Indianapolis, Indiana

Greg is over the hill

My baby brother turned 40 this year.  My mom put on a surprise party for him and it was fun to go down and spend some time with family and friends.  We had a Cafe Rio burrito bar and it was so yummy.  Lots of good toppings for that and for the ice cream sundaes we had for dessert.

Greg found out beforehand, so he decided to bring his craps table that he built himself when he was in college.  In fact, I think teaching people to play craps and then beating them at it is how he paid for his expenses while going to college.  So, he taught everyone who wanted to learn how to play, much to the dismay of this mother, my boys enjoyed it.

Friends

I can't remember for sure which weekend these pictures were taken, because this is a regular weekend activity at our house.  The boys have their friends over to play WOW, Magyk, Video Games, or just to hang out.  We end up with an entryway so crowded with shoes you can barely get through.  But, at least they are here and we know they are safe and not doing anything crazy.  They have good friends and we love having the house full.

Nothin' But Net

Well, it has begun...........No more Saturday morning yummy breakfasts because basketball season has begun.  Tyrel and Trevin are both playing this year.  We got up bright and early Saturday morning for Trevin's game at 8 am, then back home to do chores and back down to town for Tyrel's game at 1:00.  Sean is coaching Tyrel's team this year.  They both lost.............by quite a ways.  But they both seemed to have fun.

Christmas Eve PJs

These are the PJs we got for the boys to open Christmas Eve.  This is another one of the traditions they still indulge their old mother in because they like it.  Little did I know that this is all they would wear each and every day of Christmas break.  At least it cut down on the laundry each week.

More Photography

So, I'm here to show off another photography technique I learned.  This one was for twinkling Christmas lights and you hopefully think mine are awesome since I'm not going to point you in the direction of the sample photos from the photographer giving the tips. (hers look way more awesome than mine do)  I thought they turned out kinda cool although this is another one that took lots of trial and error to get photos that I thought were halfway decent.

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