McKay Midway Football Practice

McKay is loving football practice.  It's so much work and takes so much out of him, but he always comes home happy.  He feels like he is getting better each practice.  Right now he is playing receiver and running back.  He has never played these positions before, so we are proud of him for getting in there and working hard at a new position.

McKay loves these kids!

They are a fun group.

It's fun for McKay to get to be with dad.

Living out his glory days.

Competition!

Cheering on his team mate!

Good practice!

It's going to be a great season!

 

Football Season!

WE love football and have been excited or it to start.  The boys have been practicing all season and can't wait for games to begin.  The season started with a potluck in the West Forsyth cafeteria.  Lincoln was off with his friends, but Palmer and the kickers sat by me so I could take a picture of them. This is Kevin, Ruth and Taylor.  Go kickers!

I got to help with the pregame meal.  These lucky football players alway get fed before their games.  Lincoln is a pretty good sport when I want to take his picture. 

"Mom seriously!?"

Lincoln and Jackson.

Go West!  After this they went to Lanier High to play a scrimmage.  There was a two hour lightening delay so they only played one half.  Palmer and Lincoln both got into the game.  It was a tie 7-7. 
 

Seminary Open House

Our seminary class has always been in someone in our ward's home.  This year the stake has moved all of the classes to the church.  The kids will join the seminary classes of two other wards.  This could possibly be a great experience since our boys don't know many people in our new stake.  We also don't have a ton of youth in our ward.  Hunter will be in the sophomore class and Palmer and Lincoln will be in the senior/junior class.

Hunter is already excited about his class.  There are some cool boys he met from scouts in his class.  I think it will be good.

Poor kid, his mom is always taking pictures of him.

Palmer is probably the most apprehensive of all of the boys.  I think he will like it though.  There are some really good teachers.  This is Brother Wernli.  He spoke in our ward once and we still remember what a great talk it was.

I couldn't find the boys for a second and found them playing games in the cultural hall.  I know they are going to like this.

Hunter's teacher's Sister Beal and Sister Johnson.  They are awesome!

Palmer and Lincoln (and their friend Sam) with Sister Hansen.

The boys (and Nathan Westerby) with sister Heidorn.  She was their teacher last year and they get her again this year.  It's (hopefully) going to be a wonderful year!
 

Dad Finishes up His Master's Degree

 Josh is officially done with grad school!  He has worked so hard and enjoyed this program so much.  He is now a Master of Data Analytics.  It's been fun for him to implement everything that he has learned from his program into his job.  This has been the perfect thing for him.  He also got straight As and only one B in his program and was inducted into an national scholastic fraternity for his great grades.  The whole time he was in school, he was rocking his job (getting manager of the year) and coaching our boys in sports.  He also has helped out around the house and been a great dad.  We are so proud of him!

Double Shot Therapy

We have our double shot in Josh's office/the guest room.  I wanted to make the guest room nice so I attempted to put it somewhere else. Josh said he'd like it to stay there because the boys come and play on it and tell them about their day.  This is the best way to get them to open up.  I started to notice that they really did do that.  The balls are sort of flat, but this baby has clocked a lot of hours of "therapy."  Josh is a smart one.

 

Back to School 2021

Here we go!  School is back in session. We did our traditional back to school dinner the night before school started.  We also did Father's blessings.  We didn't get to have Lincoln at our dinner because he had to work.  For dinner we had chicken pot pie (isn't that a lunchroom hot lunch staple?). We also had apple juice in goblets to dress everything up.

Breakfast of ABC pancakes and owl eggs.  I love that the boys still ask us to make this.  

Ready for senior year!

Palmer and Lincoln had to wear their SGA shirts for the first day of school.  

Ready to star middle school!  McKay has an "eclectic," style and I wondered if he would ditch it for middle school.  I took him school shopping and he picked out a flamingo shirt and socks with owls in graduation hats. 

We ordered a smaller shirt, but he was feeling pretty confident sporting this in the store.

These socks are killing me! This kid is total entertainment. 

McKay got this with Grandma Happy in Utah and she said she'd save it for him.  We haven't been in two years and he still asks me if I think she still has it.  We got him his own so he doesn't have to worry about it. 

I was so stressed to send him to middle school, but he did great and came home happy.