Pose For Jorden

We were walking in the old historical downtown part of Wilmington in the beginning of summer when we came accross a giant skatebaord! I tried to get one of the boys to stand on it to send a picture to Jorden but they were all afraid of people looking at them!!!  Seriously? Like usual, Mom has to do everything!!!  I gave Ed my phone and had him take a picture of me on it....yeah, peeps were watching, but like am i really going to see any of them again?  Does it really matter that i am pretending to ride a skateboard that is really a bench?!!!  Silly boys.  And after i got off the "bench" other peeps started getting on it and doing poses too.....anyways, sent the pix to Jorden and he laughed, loved it, and knew exactly where i was!

Football Evaluations

The boys had football evaluations tonight.  The Air Station does this to kind of insure that the teams are equally distributed of talent.  Both boys went thru the various drills and did quite well for just showing up in whatever.  I told them to put on comfortable shorts to run in and cleats, but Ty was in jeans and both boys just in tennis shoes.  Which is better than one year where Ryan showed up for soccer evaluations in flip flops!  He still scored some goals, but c'mon kiddo!  Seriously?  So, no complaints from Mom this year.  Both boys are still upset for Ed and I having them take this year off of soccer for football, but i think they will get over it once the season gets underway.  They have been playing soccer since 2005 and are both really good.  Ty is fast and an awesome Forward, that kid can take a ball down a field and he knows where his team mates are at all times to pass it for the goal shot or take it himself.  He can also steal it from basically anyone.  Ryan doesn't have the speed or endurance that Ty has, but he can defend like there is no tomorrow and is incredible in the net.  The kid has no fear and will charge someone trying to score on him.  I don't think anyone has ever scored on him.... Sooo, we will see how it goes with a sport they only play in fun at school during recess and with friends in the neighborhood.  They were calling out the times and Ty is definitely the fastest runner of these kids.  That boy can run like a deer!  Ty and Ryan recognized some friends from baseball and left evaluations a little bit happier about playing football.  YAY!! 


Ryan running in his slip ons....and laughing....




Ty, the fastest one there in full jeans and his favorite high tops with his toes poking thru and the heels flapping and about to fall off!



Getting Their Armor!

Aug 20^th

Took the boys to New River to get sized for their football helmet and uniform and got all their pads.  They are just a bit excited to play tackle football

Ty is still not sure about trading in his soccer jersey for a football uniform...



Ryan was having fun....




Came home and tried on everything!  Yeah, he likes it!



Ty is still not sure of this new sport....

Conditioning

The boys have spent the last 2 weeks doing conditioning.  Two grueling hours four nights a week in the hot, humid, bug infested land of the Air Station, well it is like that everywhere in this area.  I have covered them in mosquito repellant and loaded them up with ice water.  They have come out of every practice completly exhausted and soaked in sweat.  At the mere mention of "Bear Crawls" and Ryan comes close to a breakdown.  Meanwhile i have the flightline to myself doing my cardio and taking a random break to let an airplane cross my path.  They informed me after practice that i should NOT have the windows up with the AC on as i might die from their stench!

First REAL Football Practice

The boys got to wear their pads tonight for practice!  They were excited to finally be putting on their "ARMOR" as Ryan refers to it.  We arrived at their practice field and it was sooo cute to see them turn into these little giants as they walked accross the parking lot to the grass.  They were sooo cute to watch!  Much to Ryan's dismay, they still did the dreaded "Bear Crawls"!  He wasn't sure if it was harder with or without pads, but they were still "harrible" (that is how Ryan says horrible) all the same.  They were SUPER sweaty tonight and filthy, but non stop chatter boxes the whole way home about this new world of 'Tackle Football' they have entered. 


Ready to head out to their first practice all suited up!




My Little Giants




Ty, still not sure about this....



Ryan said he was a dead man walking, Ty refused to have his photo taken



First Football Game

First Football Game this morning!  The boys were excited and nervous.  It was too cute!  But atleast they have had enough practices that they know what they are doing!

Go Panthers!!!



Heading in for the weigh in, won't be any problems for them...Ryan made the age cut literally by his birthday!  Cut off for Ty's division was on Ryan's birthday.  No worries for Ty as Ryan out weighs him by 1 1/2 pounds and Vicki can even play in this division with the weight limits!  She is just too old..... 




Both playing on the line




One on each end!




Both feeling pretty good about their new sport!




The chit chat with Dad heading out to the car





Vicki & Her Happy Dance

Vicki came out of her room all excited doing the Happy Dance!  She got her itunes account on to her phone and so now she has her music with her 24/7!  She is a happy girl this morning!