WE DID IT!!!

Aaaaggghhhhh!!!

I am so nervous for tonight's game that I don't know what to do with myself so I am letting you all in on it.  It's too early to go freeze at the field but I can't seem to find anything to take my mind off of it so I'm embracing it and writing about it.  Hunter's football team is in the CIF quarterfinals tonight and we are playing Rancho Bernardo.  They have the same record as us, 8-2, and we have beaten them once this year but only by 3.  The paper predicts that we will win by 1 point.  If we lose then it's all over.  No more Friday night lights, no more running for the paper on Saturday mornings to see what they wrote about my son and no more bonding with the greatest kids and parents I've ever had the pleasure to know.  The pressure is ridiculous.  We were in this situation last year but Hunter was a junior so I knew we had a whole 'nother year to have these experiences.  Now he's a senior and this could be it.  I can't seem to wrap my mind around that fact.  3 years ago when he was a freshman he was invited to come up to the varsity team for playoffs.  We made it all the way to the championship game that year.  Unfortunately, he also got picked to be on the varsity basketball team with his senior brother and they had a big tournament on the same night as the championship football game.  Since he knew he would never have the chance to play with his brother again because of the age difference he chose to not participate in the thrill of standing on the sidelines at Qualcomm Stadium.  This is his last chance to make it to Qualcomm and I can't tell you how badly I want this for him.  If any of you read this in the next 3 hours please send a little prayer out for the Mission Hills Grizzlies and especially their quarterback, Hunter Moore.  Thanks!

Thankful

I have so many things to be thankful for.  This is a partial list:
*my incredible family
*my savior
*my strong testimony of my church
*my health
*high school football
*my free country
*my beautiful house
*Christmas decorations
*chocolate
*dear friends

Baby Grizzly

On Friday night my grandson, Landon, went to his very first football game.  He was dressed in a little grizzly bear suit with ears and a tail.  He's only 5 weeks old and very small.  Our school mascot is a grizzly bear so I asked my friend to take a picture of the big grizzly holding the baby grizzly.  The PPR (Prep Pigskin Report) cameraman from our local high school football highlight tv station saw him and took a picture of his little sleeping face with his furry grizzly ears.  When we got home and turned on our tv to watch the highlights around the county there was our little baby grizzly filling up the tv screen!  Then they showed our school highlights and they were almost all of Hunter!  The vast majority of high school football players never get featured on PPR and our super stud, Landon, did it in his very first football game:)  Hopefully, 15 years from now he will be on there every week.  Grandma was a spaz and didn't have her camera but he's wearing his "uniform" to the next game so I will be sure to add a picture to this post in just a few days:)

One Hot Patriot

Big Shoes to Fill

Yesterday Logan, Michelle and Landon came over after church and after eating lunch everyone fell asleep for a little nap.  While I was walking by I looked down and saw Landon's shoes right next to Logan's shoes.  I was thrown back in time for a minute when Logan's shoes were the little ones.  Amazing how quickly time goes by.  Now my baby has a little baby to teach and love for eternity.  What a wonderful circle of life. 

Just Win, Baby!

My team finally beat the Chargers.  I can hold my head up high for a few weeks and maybe longer if we can do it again in December.  I can't believe how good it feels!  It feels like many years ago when I lived in Raider country and used to watch games with my dad and brothers and we expected our boys to win because they usually did.  I traveled back in time and felt the joy of being with people I love, cheering for a team I love and winning!  This time I was hugging my husband and children instead of my dad and brothers but it felt just as good:)  I have loved this team my whole life and it feels great to be, if only for a moment, on the winning end again.  The autumn wind is a raider and I will be a fan until I die.  Raider Nation forever!!!