Friday, September 26, 2008

What to do?

We just got word that due to this:
All football games have been canceled for tomorrow. That fact, along with the gas issues we are experiencing, brings up the question, what to do over the weekend? We do have a benefit to go to Saturday night, outside, without the kids. But, if it rains, I don't know if it will still happen. Other than that, I just need to do a few quick things for my 2nd grade class Sunday morning.

So, what to do? I need to take pictures for stuff to put on eBay. I have lots of it! If it stops raining, we need to clean out the garage. We need to paint the hallway. The kids will, of course, need to be entertained!

Ideas? Let me know!

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Third Football Game

PM got to be a team captain and go out for the coin toss (remember he is #66)
He also got to run with the ball a few times. Here he is getting tackled:
Gotta love this shot of DQ doing a jump. I think we need to enroll her in some gymnastics classes...
They did their dance for the first time. On the high school football field to the music of Hannah Montana's Rockstar, she loved it!

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Gas, gas, gas, and not the free kind...

you get by eating too much chili! ARGH! I could pull my hair out and shoot some news stations around here! Since the hurricane, supply has been lower and many gas stations ran out early of the premium and mid-grade. Now, many are running low on regular as well. Well, what does the news media do (again) start a panic! People are filling up their cars and all of their gas cans. I knew nothing about this and had planned to get gas this evening while DQ was at choir practice. Of the three stations I went to, only one was completely out, but the other three had lines out the wazoo! I am talking 15 cars or more in lines in the roads! I called a friend who said every station between our town and Charlotte on the road we take to work every day was out this evening too. So, I had 1/4 tank and figured, maybe I would either try to ride the bus the next two days or just work from home one day, if it came down to it. It is hard to catch the bus, due to the time I can drop the kids off at the school, so I haven't been riding. I can't really get there in time.

Luckily, as I was coming home, I remembered a small Texaco station just past our neighborhood and figured I would just check it out. Luckily, they had gas and there weren't any long lines! image So, while the people up the road were wasting theirs, just sitting in line, I pulled up, filled up and went home...

Friday, September 19, 2008

All you have to do to be a mom...

is marry a boy! That's according to DQ. And, all you have to do to be a husband, is marry a mom. Kids are so cute! Tonight, after a long day at school, which included me being there the whole day to help run a Walk-A-Thon to raise money for the PTO, then an afternoon of running errands, dinner out and a new game of battleship, DQ was very insightful. First, she told me "you are the funnest mom ever!". Right after that, she very seriously asked, "Are you glad you had kids? Grandma said when you were little you just wanted to live on a ranch and not have kids.". How sweet! I almost cried. I told her of course I was glad I had kids! Her comment was, "I know why, so you can keep playing games!" So cute!

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Second Football Game

Well, once again, it was a scorcher. Their game was at 2:30 in the afternoon, and boy was it hot! Here they are getting ready to run through the banner:

Here's DQ running to the sidelines:

Put me in coach, I'm ready to play:

This is what's hard to watch. Yes, he is in a head-lock!
They don't officially keep score, but his team scored 5 touchdowns, and the other team 0. Yes, that is five to zip/zero!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

I think a girl has a crush on PM!

She was in his class last year. At their FairyTale Ball, she wanted to dance with him, but he would have nothing of it. I have this picture, which makes me think of them at a dance when they are older and her wistfully leaning on the wall trying to get him to dance or them having an argument and him walking away...
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Anyway, we were at his football game this past Saturday and she was there. She came up and asked me where he was, and I pointed right behind her to the group of boys sitting on the ground waiting. I told her his number. She went over and said hi and he just kind of grunted. She came back over to chat with me for a minute. I tried to get her to go give him a hug or talk to him or something, as he was looking so embarrassed already, but she was too shy to. It was cute how she stood there talking to me and kept looking at him. He kept looking away, trying not to smile. We are in trouble when they get older!!!

Oh, and I can't remember if I already told you about this or not... Anyway, he had an assignment at school to do that said "My favorite color is __________ because ______________________________" Well after he filled it in like this "My favorite color is gold because it reminds me of money." Yes, he definitely takes after BD!

Monday, September 08, 2008

First Real Football Game - Ever

This past weekend marked PM's first real football game - ever. DQ had already cheered at the high school game, so we couldn't say this was her first, but it was her first full game. The boys had to be there 1.5 hours early, it was rough keeping them from killing each other while sitting and being good. Then, even though the coaches kept telling them they could wait to put on their shoulder pads so they could stay cooler longer, they all put them on. ARGH!
Here he is right before going to warm up:
Then, the cheerleaders held the banner, while the boys ran through it. I thought it was really cute how the older football players and cheerleaders that had just finished their game stood to cheer as they ran through. DQ is holding the banner on the left in this shot:
Here is DQ cheering:
One of PM playing: (sorry for the blur)
And, a final of DQ cheering:
The neatest thing about the game was hearing their names called out they though. DQ thought it was pretty cool when they announced each cheerleader and they got to do some type of jump as their name was announced. PM's name was announced each time he made a good tackle. He was over the moon with that (as was his mom and dad!). Can't wait until next week!

Friday, September 05, 2008

Pep Rally

Due to the impending tropical storm Hannah, everything for football was moved up one night. That meant, our pep rally was Wednesday instead of Thursday. DQ had to cheer.

Here she is practicing:
Here's the whole group warming up:
Getting all lined up properly:
Cheering:
More cheering "This is Raider Territory!"
Lastly, PM after practice. I am a sucker for this little boy in his football gear. I just want to hug and squeeze my little man!!

Thursday, September 04, 2008

High School Football

I grew up at a school where high school football was the focus of the entire community. Every season, that was all anyone talked about. When it snowed, study hall classes were taken to the football field to roll the snow into giant snowballs and push them off the field. The quarterback was allowed to cheat off me during Biology, because he was just that, the quarterback of our team. (not that I minded, he was pretty cute!) But, all of that led to a state championship my senior year of high school.

Fast forward 16 years and here I am, living in a community where high school football is regarded just as highly. Our school is a smaller town school, just like the one where I grew up. I am less than 2 miles from the high school and can hear the cheers on game nights. You know what? I still love it.

DQ did a cheer clinic with the high school cheerleaders over the summer. All of those that did the clinic got the opportunity to cheer at the first home game with the high school cheerleaders during a quarter. K-2 grades were during the second quarter.

Both kids were very excited to get to the game. PM's football team had handed out game jerseys that week, just so the boys could wear them to the high school game:

She seemed a little shy/nervous at first:

But, she then perked up:


And, what do we have here? Some future high school football players!

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Funny for a Tuesday

Giving Up Wine

I was walking down the street when I was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby y-looking homeless woman who asked me for a couple of dollars for dinner.

I took out my wallet, got out ten dollars and asked, 'If I give you this money, will you buy wine with it instead of dinner?'

'No, I had to stop drinking years ago', the homeless woman told me.

'Will you use it to go shopping instead of buying food?' I asked.

'No, I don't waste time shopping,' the homeless woman said. 'I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive.'

'Will you spend this on a beauty salon instead of food?' I asked.

'Are you NUTS!' replied the homeless woman. I haven't had my hair done in 20 years!'

'Well, I said, 'I'm not going to give you the money. Instead, I'm going to take you out for dinner with my husband and me tonight.'

The homeless Woman was shocked. 'Won't your husband be furious with you for doing that? I know I'm dirty, and I probably smell pretty disgusting.'

I said, 'That's okay. It's important for him to see what a woman looks like after she has given up shopping, hair appointments, and wine.'