Friday Night Lights

We had an exciting Friday night. Emma came home with a flyer inviting the middle-schoolers to the last regular season football game of the high-school. The kids had been to a college game, but have only heard my stories of going to football games in high school (Brian didn't go to his high school games).  My mom and I would go to a lot of the games, both basketball and football, and it was always fun!! So, the kids know I'm excited for them to get into high school because I can go to the games with them, whether they like it or not! : )  So we went to the game Friday night. Now, both teams were Concord teams....but only one was the home team, which'll be our team in 1.5 years. However, hometown bleachers were packed out, and we had to do the unthinkable,.....sit in the visiting teams bleachers. Gasp. It was ok, though....and the kids got a good view of the band and all the shenanigans that go on in the hometown bleachers since we were across the field from them.  The game itself was a blowout.  The kids future school was undefeated, and still is as the won 56-14.  Anyways, it was a blast! Got me all excited to have a high schooler in the house.

So in summary - when I'm not running I don't have  whole lot to blog about, lol. So you are getting the random stuff that's going on. : )

 

Above, that's not edited at all. Yes, that's a black field.  It's new this season, it's really a nice field, and track around it...its just a little odd to have a black field. And, also...something I have not gotten used to down here in CA....even the huge schools, and even Del La Salle-the best football around...do not have real stadiums like back home in WA.  Just bleachers, and pretty small bleachers at that. What you see across the field is the home town bleachers....pretty small.

 Dinner of champions.

 Sisters.

Watching their first high school game.

 Saturday, we had a special Branch meeting from 12 - 3, streamed live from New York.

Sunday we had dinner with friends....the fun, relaxing kind where you just talk, eat, and play cards. My favorite kind.

This morning - 

Made a couple of these so I can stop getting asked "how many days till we leave??" ever 10 minutes. It's been many years since we've done a WA trip where we hit both Brian's and my families. It's around 14 hours up/back, plus a few trips back and forth across the state.

The kids are super excited.

Brian and I actually enjoy the driving, cuz we kind of like each other and tend to have fun. 

: )

(If there's any bad guys reading this - we have a house sitter the entire time to feed our beast of an attack dog, and bring in our mail, so don't get any ideas.)