Trunk or Treat/ Football Game

Last night was a busy night. Elijah had a flag football game at Art Crate Stadium the same time that our wards Trunk or Treat was going on. Mercedes and Richie were awesome and helped me out immensely by taking Brandon, Cody, and Dallas so I could make it with Elijah to his game on time. Elijah did great tonight. I think we ended up with about 12 touchdowns, I lost count. We actually had four interceptions which were run all the way from the opposing teams goal line to our goal line. Elijah was great on defense-he stayed on his guy and pulled 5 or 6 flags! One time Elijah was so slick and pulled a kids flag without the kid even realizing it, so the kid ran it in for a touchdown but then Elijah whipped up his arm with that shiny flag and the touchdown was no good! Elijah had 1 touchdown but almost had 3. The other team got his flag right at the field goal line twice. Elijah did awesome and is sure sad to only have one more football game left. His last game is Saturday, 12:30 p.m. at NACHES TRAIL (NT)15305 WALLER RD E - TACOMA, 98446. **The kids costumes: Brandon-white ninja, Dallas-gangster, Cody-Chuckie, Elijah wasn't dressed up obviously but he was Kaepernicking.

New Gloves

Elijah was pretty excited to try out his new football gloves that grandpa, grandma and aunt Tammy got him for his football games. He said he liked the cool design they make when he puts his hands together. *I forgot to take my camera to the game but Elijah did awesome like always: 1 touch down pass, pulled some flags, got an interception, and caught some long throws without dropping the ball. Way to go Elijah!

1st Break

Considering we have four boys, I think the odds were against us. It just so happened that on Wednesday afternoon, after enjoying a beautiful sunny day at the park, I took Elijah to his flag football practice at the park. We had just arrived and Brandon ran over to the large playground. I turned to check on him before walking over to the field and immediately saw him falling about 6 feet off the playground structure and landing on his back. Brandon jumped right up holding his left arm and I ran over to see if he was okay. After checking his arms he sat on my lap and fell asleep. Once we were home Mike took a look as well and then decided that he should be taken in for x rays. The nurse practictioner we saw said she thought it was broken and gave Brandon a sling but said to get into the doctor the next day for x rays. Needless to say the next day, after having to drive to Seattle for x rays, it was determined that he fractured his left clavicle (collar bone) and would need to continue to wear the sling until his next doctor appointment on November 12th with the Orthopedic Specialist. Brandon was very upset about getting x rays the night it happened but wanted to talk to his older cousin Richie, because he had gone through the same thing a few months before. Richie was so sweet and called up Brandon to tell him that it was going to be okay and I could tell that it meant a lot to Brandon to have him tell him it would be okay. My sister came and hung out with us at the doctors office the night it happened and took the first picture for me. Thanks so much for everyone and their concerns for Brandon. He is doing much better, still a little sore, but moving around better. He is wearing a lot of button up shirts for the time being:)

Go Elijah!

We had another flag football game last night at Cedarcrest Middle School. Elijah didn't run in any touchdowns tonight, his last game he had 3, almost 4 (he was brought down at the 5 yard line) but he played some good defense and caught some really good passes. His longest pass of the night was about 20 yards. I think he could have run it in but the poor guy tripped and came down. We have another game on Saturday at the same field. Only 3 more games of the season. I guess we will be gearing up for basketball season soon as we have 3 boys who want to play.

Flag Football

Elijah started flag football practice 2 weeks ago and had his first game this last Saturday against Graham Elementary. He did so good and had such a fun time. Elijah was able to grab lots of flags and he even caught one pass and ran it in for a touchdown.

Fan Mail

Oh yeah....what did we do this weekend? We wrote letters to the San Franscisco 49ers!!!

Sweet 'n' Sour

Brandon was eating some sour patch kids before school a couple weeks ago and the faces he was making were hilarious. The pictures can't express how funny but thought I would share anyways...

October 1st, 2013

Today is the first day of October. It was rainy but also sunny. Crazy weather...I did get a lot done today though. I got all our decorations up for Halloween. It's one of our favorite holidays around here!!! The boys had a crazy good time going through all the Halloween boxes and figuring out what they are going to be already. I found this mask in one of the boxes that my little brother, Derek, sent to me while I was a freshmen at BYU. It's definitely seen better days.

Pretty Panties

It's been really rainy and windy here the past week and we thought we better start letting Dakota in again at night. She's getting a little older, and although she is on medication for her incontinence, she still "leaks". Well, we came up with a solution that seems to be working so far and I think Dakota likes it b/c now she can roam around the house and not be confined to one single room. We got a pair of washable doggie underwear in pink and purple. At first she would walk around quite funny but I think she's gotten use to them just fine. The funniest part about them is the hole in the back for the tail-but our poor Coda had no tail so all you see is the liner we put inside the panties:) Isn't she a cutie!

Go Niners

I'm a little late posting this but we got Dallas a Colin Kaepernick jersey for his birthday. He was super pumped when he got it!