Yearly Archives: 2011

Tonight, our Packers scrimmaged the Steelers.  Zach’s hand is really hurting but he played great!  This is his week for playing running back and he was excited!  I also got a Packers jersey so Zach and I can match!  🙂

Toward the end of the scrimmage, he had to ask the coach to put him on the line because his hand was really hurting.  I was very proud of him that he sucked up the pain and instead of sitting, moved to a different position.  When he got home, his hand was very swollen and he could barely move his thumb.  We hope it’s not broken but we are going to take him to the doctor tomorrow morning to make sure.  We’ll keep our fingers crossed.

Today, Zach got to scrimmage against his old football team from last year (the Broncos).  They came over to our field to play and it was fun seeing all the coaches and players from last year.  They have matured quite a bit as they don’t have as many kids who are brand new to football.

Our kids played pretty hard, but experience won out in the end.  🙂

Tonight, Kirstyn had a few of her friends over for a back-to-school get together and they had a great time!  They decorated cupcakes, played games, and watched a movie.

They also had a fun time trying to scare Zach, Ben, and I, who pitched the tent out in the back yard and were having a junk food eating, movie watching, father and son campout!   The boys really like to do this kind of thing.  They think that if they’re out of the house, they can stay up as late as they want, eat as much junk food as they want, and watch as many movies on Dad’s laptop as they want.  The funny thing is that they do eat a bunch, but they can barely make it through one movie before they start to drift off.  🙂

Today, Zach got his football jersey and his helmet stickers!  He’s pretty excited, although he gets teased a little bit from the die-hard Bears fans on his team and in his class for liking the Packers.  🙂

While Zach and I were at football practice, Sarah and Angela were up at Metea at Senior College Night!  Yikes.  Once again, this kind of stuff just reaffirms how old we are getting!  Fortunately, we look and feel pretty young!   🙂  I think Sarah can’t wait to get out of high school and start college.  We think it will really be an eye opener for her and we hope she is prepared (at least a little more prepared that what we were thinking when we started)!  🙂

Tonight we had a date night with some friends at a Kane County Cougars ball game.  Angela found out that it was “Country Night.” with a band playing before the game, and fireworks to country music after the game.  We had a great time!

Unfortunately, the Cougars lost, but the music and the fireworks were awesome!  The stands were pretty packed, although the picture above doesn’t show it (taken about an hour before game time).

Football practices went much better this week.  Zach really has enjoyed tackling.  I like the way that things are run this year with the team.  We have a green team and a gold team, and each gets a chance to play on each side of the ball.  We also have a set number of QBs and RBs, but we have one RB slot on each team that rotates throughout the season.  That way, everyone gets a chance to play in multiple positions.  Zach has really enjoyed playing on defense.  He loves tackling.  🙂  He is still center on offense and enjoys that.

Tonight, we had a treat…  There is another team that practices at the same field who we had a watermelon relay with!  The boys line up and carry watermelons down around cones and back, passing them off to the next in line.  After the relay, you then eat the watermelon and have a great time!  🙂  Our boys were funny to watch, as some of them are not much bigger than the watermelon they were carrying!  🙂

After the relay finished up and they ate their watermelon, we finished up the last half of practice.  The kids had a lot more energy after that, having just had a break, a lot of fun, and some great watermelon!  🙂