Football Banquet

The Football Banquet was last Thursday at the High School. Chris was thrilled to be there and even more thrilled that I was taking pictures. Wait until next year. I am going to hire a photographer and a videographer. Here he is getting his trophy and certificate.

Here he is hiding. Note his friend Austin laughing. Probably because I was up there taking pictures and his mom isn't.How embarrassing. Are all kids like this? I just want to take a few pictures. I want to remember these moments for ever. My baby, my chubby little buddha baby is almost 17 years old. It doesn't seem that long ago that he was smuggling sharpies and screw drivers into his backpack to take to preschool. "Sharpie pen?"

Monday Night Football

Monday night Maize JV played Salina. We lost 13-7. I sneaked out to the sideline to take a picture of Chris. He is number 49 in the middle of the picture. I am very proud of Chris for sticking with football. He has gotten up 4 days a week ALL SUMMER LONG FOR 3 YEARS to be at conditioning at 6:30 am. During school he practices 4 days a week and has 2 games a week. He is self motivated and I can tell you when I was his age I didn't get up early for nothing. Who am I kidding, I only get up early if I have to and if I do get up early you better believe I will be taking a nap if at all possible. Chris is a really good kid and I am proud of him.

Friday Night Lights

Friday night at Chris's football game. Grandpa, Jarrett and Grandma. Jarrett and the Maize Eagle's mascot. I can't believe he actually got that close to him.
Why I don't take very many pictures at football games. Can you see Chris?

Chris's football game and other updates

Last night Chris played football against Salina South High School. He recovered a fumble, helped to stop Salina from scoring 2 on an extra point and had several good tackles to help Maize defeat Salina 36 to 28 in overtime. It was a real good game and if we figure out how to get the video off my camera we will post it here. I don't have any pictures because the zoom on my camera doesn't zoom enough.

In other news, Jarrett went pee-pee in the potty this morning. For those who know how much we have struggled with Jarrett lately you know how big a deal that is. We are planning to take Jarrett to Aunt Kay so she can give us her opinion on his speech and if she thinks he needs therapy or not. Right now we have 2 opinions, Heartspring says yes and Maize said no. Jarrett has been moved to a new room at preschool so he can be with kids his own age despite his lack of potty training. He is doing better discipline wise but yesterday he pushed another kid and the other kid retaliated. Maybe that will make him think twice next time. Overall I think he is doing better. Once a week he is visited by someone from the Maize school district to help with "delays in social/emotional, behavioral and fine motor skills." Please say a prayer for us. It has been very stressful.

One other thing, I am trying to get blood allergy tests for Jarrett and Jackson. I know they are allergic to something we just aren't sure what. Skin tests were done on Jarrett in July but he was supposed to stay still for 20 minutes for the test to be good and you can just imagine how that went. That's all for now.

Maize Eagles win first JV game

Chris played in his first game this evening against Valley Center. We won 36-0. Chris played wide receiver and line backer. Here he is . . . number 49 in your program, number 1 in your heart . . . Chris!

Here is Chris with Coach Wendel Davis.

Pancake Feed

Several weeks ago the Maize High School football team had their annual pancake feed. Here is a nice picture of Chris without his braids. Does all that hair fit in a helmet?

Here are Grandpa, Grandma and Jackson enjoying breakfast.

Grandpa and Jarrett