Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Halloween

Saturday we went to a local high school football game - one of the small rural towns is in the playoffs. The boys enjoyed it. They did not know what to think about all the screaming people and the cheer leaders. JB enjoyed the band. JB sat very quietly in my lap, while the boys stood by the fence (we were on the first row of the bleachers). Half time I put JB down to let him move a bit and it was all over. He knew then that he did not have to sit, so corraling him the rest of the game was hard. At one point, he crawled over to the chain link fence and soon found himself a few inches off the ground. He had figured out climbing up and had a very firm grip. I would have loved to have seen how high he would have gone, but did not want to alarm any of the other parents, who had already called B off the fence.

Sunday we went to B's last soccer game. The team we played Sunday was the team we played at the beginning of the season. We got creamed that first game. Their coach is very competitive and pushes his boys, too much so in my opinion. So, was quite surprised to see us score first. Twice during that first quarter the other team flat out blew it on what should have been hands down easy, run away goals. I could not believe how frustrated the other coach got. I was so hoping, and should not have been, not that we were going to win, but the other team would lose. We ended the first quarter up 1-0. Then in the second quarter, the other team scored 5 times in 8 minutes. I have no idea what the end score was, but it was pretty one sided. At the end of the game, our coach gave the boys medals. As he put B's medal around his neck, he told B he was an animal out there and played really well, if he could just learn to kick the ball in the right direction. We all laughed. I could not believe how aggressive he was, charging the ball the whole 8 minute quarter. He was one kick away from making a goal.

We then headed to the mall to trick or treat. Total chaos. One store was out of candy so they were giving away perfume samples. When we got back to the car, J decided to spray his perfume all over the car. We then headed to a church fall festival and then hit a local neighborhood for some door to door. I did not even get a picture, but B was Spiderman, J was Jedi and JB was a dog. Time to hit the stores this week for deeply discounted costumes for the dress up box.

JR got two does while hunting Saturday. He was on private land and got them fairly quickly because he was home by noon and the ranch was over an hour away. He said that at one point he started to take a shot and for some reason did not. As he got closer, he realized there had been a hunter hiding in the trees in the exact area he was eyeing some deer. God watched out for him.

Yesterday I ran into a casual acquaintance. I had seen her 2 weeks ago and we exchanged phone numbers but I had forgotten to call her the next week. Anyway, she asked me if I did bible studies and I told her yes. Then she said that maybe we could do one together. An open invitation! (thinking about Marquis' mom and this gal together....)

JB starts speech tomorrow and I have B's teacher's conference on Thurs. Will be interesting!

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