Celebrating Brad's Birthday

Today we headed to Bolsa Chica State Beach to celebrate Brad's 13th birthday. (Brad is the son of Kayley's Godfather,Kevin and Jacob's Godmother, Terri) The kids had so much fun. As you can see from the pictures it was beautiful. A little windy but nonetheless a great day. When we left home it was 97 degrees when we arrived at the beach it was 74. It doesn't get any better than that! In the pictures you'll see the kids enjoying the beach. The little boy in the picture with Kayley is Garrett, Kevin and Terri's Grandson. He is so cute. Kayley had a lot of fun with him and took tons of pictures of him. Also is a picture of Kayley and Brad. It's really hard to believe they are both 13 now. I remember when they were both babies like it was yesterday.

Scrimmage

Jacob had his first scrimmage this weekend against a team from Hemet. (about 50 miles away and it's toward the desert so it was 98 degrees) It's actually his 3rd but I don't count the 1st two because they were against a team who knew all our plays and then when they'd ask us if we'd like to run the same play again they'd set us up to fail miserably. Isn't that great sportsmanship. (getting off my soapbox) Anyway in the one picture Jacob is the one blocking the other players. He did so good. He also managed to show a little of what Eddie and I affectionately refer to as "Goerlinger Attitude". Apparently some kid on the defensive line was trash talking Jacob and at the end of the play after Jacob laid a nice tackle down on him J looked at him and threw his hands up in the air as if to say so now what do you have to say. A bunch of the parents saw it and pointed it out to us. They all wanted to know what had happened. Of course when asked Jacob told them. The other picture Eddie really likes because it shows how big Jacob looks out there. The scrimmage went very well. According to Jacob we won 36-0. (we did) We had to remind him that this was just a scrimmage and for fun but just like anything else he knew exactly what the score was.

Well Rested Coach

Apparently this is what you do when you are not coaching baseball. This is a picture of a well rested coach at his son's football practice. This won't last long as baseball practice for Grant starts next week. So in the meantime he is going to get in as many zzz's as possible. By the way, he asked if this was how I felt when I sat at practices and games in the stands. I did have to remind him he had me keeping score, handing out papers or something else. So no I didn't know what this was like. LOL!

Weigh In Day

Just dropping in with a quick note! Jacob made weight. He lost a total of 9 lbs in a little over 2 weeks. By doing so it actually put him under the max weight for his division by 2lbs. He was thrilled to make weight today which means he stays with his team. I had to help work weight certification for a few hours so Jacob hung out with me at the high school where they did it. I gave him a few bucks to get something to eat and he celebrated with dippin dots. He's so excited to get to eat normally again. When we got home he ran and got a huge glass of milk. He usually drinks one big glass a day but hasn't been able to. He is one happy boy!

Grant lost his 1st tooth

Sunday Grant lost his 1st tooth. It's on the bottom. This is the best picture I could get. He did rake in some money because of it. Grandma Jane gave him $5, then he ended up with another $2, I believe from Grandpa Mike. Then the tooth fairy brought him another $2. He thought this was pretty awesome and is very excited that the tooth right next to the one he lost is also loose.

Kayley Cheer

Here are a few pictures from cheer. One of Kayley striking a pose. The other is of her and her "mini me" Kennedy. Kayley loves cheer, we may have found the sport! She however was our 1st injury of football season. Tonight she was kneed by one of the girls she was lifting in the nose. It is a little swollen. Luckily one of our coaches on Jacob's team is an EMT so he looked at it and said it's probably just swollen not broken. Poor thing. That had to hurt!

Protect your Quarterback

Here are a few pictures of Jacob from practice. In the picture just above Jacob is on the right, silver and black cleats, long sleeve shirt. Notice no one is getting near his quarterback. The other is a picture of Jacob blocking one of the coaches at practice. He is loving this sport. He has a few bruises but overall is doing very well.