Football Fun

Spencer began football this season.  He has really enjoyed the sport thus far despite having never played before.  Spencer plays center on defense and left guard on offense.  His head coach is in our ward.  One of his coaches is Luke Staley, who was a famous BYU runningback.  Staley also played for the Detroit Lions until an injury ended his pro career.  His son is on Spencer's team.  Spencer has made a bunch of friends through football and is learning a lot this season.  Yesterday was his first pre-season game and we all went to support him.  It was a lot of fun.  The teams tied.  We're proud of Spence and appreciate all his hard work practicing Monday through Friday for two plus hours.

The first week of school

We started school this week.  Caitlin and Courtney are in 3rd grade, Spencer's in 5th grade and Rachel is in 10th grade at the brand new high school.  Just like last year, early morning seminary's a killer.  The nice thing is that Rachel's new school is a lot closer.  I'll be glad when Rachel can drive herself to school.  

Spencer's very busy with football and absolutely loves it so far.  They have their first pre-season game on Saturday.  He has two boys from the neighborhood on the team so hopefully, they are becoming friends since they have practice everyday this week.  Both of them were over at our house last night.  

Joshua has been sick for a couple weeks but Monday night, his fever with Tylenol spiked to 104.4 degrees so I ran him to the ER.  After getting his fever down, they did a chest x-ray and saw the beginnings of pneumonia.  He's been on antibiotics since then and is definitely improving but his fever came back today so we'll see what the future holds.  I haven't been getting any sleep so I'm really exhausted.

The boys broke the baby gate completely a few days ago and since then my life has been more stressful because they are roaming the house, causing trouble wherever they are.  Last night, they climbed onto the kitchen counter and got into Rachel's makeup.  Fun stuff!  I thought they were awfully cute even with mascara on their faces.