Monday, September 27, 2010

Football!

We loaded up the car on Saturday and packed a weekend full of fun. We headed down to Greeley for a 5k race benefiting a little girl who's parents are from Rawlins. It was a nice race and the whole family participated. Glenn pushed the two kids in the jogging stroller and managed to beat me by a good three minutes. Found out that winner of the race was 11, and SHE beat me by about 11 minutes. It's good to know who your competitors are. After the race, we packed everyone up and headed to Laramie for the football game. We took the scenic route, but some of us didn't find it very scenic. Will kept himself occupied with his Legos. He's really getting good at putting things together. He always has a rocket ship or a race car in various stages of production. The only downside is that there are often little pieces of pointy plastic all over this stinkin' house. They wreak havoc on bare feet.
Have you all met my boyfriend Jake? He's a lumberjack. Glenn's getting tired of this joke, but after two weeks with the beard, I'm still not quite used to seeing it on his face. It's staying through hunting season. Hubba hubba Hey look! It's the elusive blogger! Who needs to wear more eye makeup!
We ended up in Laramie for a beautiful day for a football game. It was our first football game of the year and other than the final score, we had a really good time. The kids did pretty well. Reina poured a gatorade all over the people next to us with about 2 minutes left in the game, but other than that, we made it through relatively unscathed. Here's our little football fan. She had a great time playing on the stairs and dancing to the music from the marching band. When the music would start, she would bob her head and then start to wave her arms and shake her bottom. She's a slave to the music! Will had a great time eating popcorn and clapping his hands when everyone else did. He got tired in the second half so we made a little bed on the bench for him to lie down. That worked well until we noticed that he was eating peanuts that people behind us were dropping on the floor. As we were leaving, Will noticed a bag of doritos on the floor that someone had dropped. He reached down and grabbed one and ate it. I think we're raising a raccoon. Except, at least raccoons wash their hands willingly.
At the game, we sat behind the UW women's basketball coach. I didn't want to bother him, but he was very friendly and chatting with everyone around us. I finally tapped him on the shoulder and introduced him to Reina, who should be in his recruiting class of 2027. I said that we didn't know what kind of shooter she would be but that she does have a heck of an arm already. He was glad to hear that and he looked at her and told her that she was welcome to bring her binky with her to campus. Frankly, I'm relieved because at the rate we are going, she probably will.

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