Best of...Worst of...Weeks 14 and 15

Mason:

Best-Thanksgiving vacation (lots of football and food and sitting around), Thanksgiving food (I like turkey but the mashed potatoes were the best!)
Worst-my shoulder ache,

Tanner:

Best:  Sleep over with Evan, Thanksgiving Dinner (my favorite is Grandma Gaye's jello salad), seeing two movies, playing football in the backyard with Dad and Mason, warm Fall weather
Worst:  Missing Grandma and Grandpa at Thanksgiving

Rachelle

Best:  pleasant Fall temperatures, getting decorated for Christmas, Thanksgiving dinner with family, Dit's yummy stuffing and sinful sweet potatoes,
Worst:  work, paying bills, not having Thanksgiving left-overs

Joe:

Best:  Thanksgiving dinner with family, yummy food (that we didn't have to prepare), great weather (that meant lots of extra time to do fall clean-up and play football with my boys), two movie theater movies plus one at home, extra time with family, getting up Christmas decorations
Worst:  no Thanksgiving left-overs, Rachelle at work ALL THE TIME

Best of...Worst of...Week 13

Mason
Best:  Tanner winning his football game, snow, snow and more snow, party at the Rec Center
Worst:  Obama for 4 more years

Tanner
Best:  Being a CHAMPION!!!, Rec Center party especially the Wibit, building snow forts with Mason, the snow
Worst:  the election results, having a sore knee, 49ers and Ram tie (ANNOYING!)

Rachelle
Best:  Brave victory (do you see a pattern?)
Worst:  I will abstain this week...I am trying to focus on the positive

Joe
Best:  Tanner winning the championship, Young Women's Evening of Excellence (lucky to be a part especially since I don't have a daughter), 26 inches of snow in Bountiful, having a warm house to enjoy it from
Worst:  Romney being defeated by Obama, having to shovel 26 inches of snow

Braves 11-0 CHAMPIONS!!!

8-0 versus Kearns

This will be a day 18 courageous BRAVES will remember forever.  Why?

• They didn't lose a game the entire season.  They dug deep and found what they needed when it mattered, every single time. 
• They outscored their opponents 373-31.
• Half-time Zumba.  Need I say  more?

• They played the championship game in 10 inches of snow.  Instead of a green field with narrow white yard markers, they had a white field with narrow strips of green as yard markers.

• The snow made it hard to run, kick, and throw.  It seemed like everything was in slow motion.
• Equipment time-outs during the championship game consisted of shoveling snow out of helmet face guards.  The image of Dallas Bangerter standing up from the first play plastered with snow will forever be ingrained in our minds . 
• Every single kid on the team had the support of a whole family behind them.  There wasn't a kid who played who didn't have someone there just for them.

• They played football for an entire season (many of them two and even three seasons) with a group of friends.  They were truly a team.
• They had 5 coaches who cared about these kids on the field and off the field. 

• They had an awesome team mom (Thanks, Lisa!!) who always saw to the details that made it come together.  From hot chocolate and hand warmers on cold days, to icy Gatorade on hot days, to game film viewing parties, to motivational speakers, she thought of it all.
• Near the end of the season, they started practicing at a secret location.  This was to avoid the scouts. 
• They won. They are champions.  They will be champions forever.

 

CONGRATULATIONS BRAVES!!!!

Best of...Worst of...Week 12

Mason
Best:  Tanner winning his football game against Viewmont, Trick-or-treating and getting lots of candy
Worst:  having my rotten tooth pulled, reading

Tanner
Best:  Winning my football game and getting to play in the championship game next week, Tyler Hernandez and his brother Ayden getting baptized (all but 4 of my teammates came to support him), getting lots of candy trick-or-treating
Worst:  being overthrown and having the pass intercepted (at least I made the tackle!)

Rachelle
Best:  running on Friday with Shannon, Tyler's baptism, making dumplings with Lucy, the beautiful weather, fall clean up
Worst:  eating too much candy, having to move my office at the U

Joe
Best:  Tanner's team winning yesterday, beautiful Fall weather, playing football with the kids in the backyard, getting leaves raked (for the time being), personal tour of the Church Office Building with Elder Anderson, Tyler's baptism, confirmation, and priesthood ordination
Worst:  not being able to get all of my callings/releases done (people are too busy for appointments...or they don't answer the phone when they see it is me calling)

Braves 10-0

27-0 versus Viewmont

The first half was ugly but the boys came out fighting in the second half and player "their" game. We will meet Kearns next week in the championship game. It is going to be a tough battle. Our boys are ready...

Side-line pictures mainly today. I was too nervous during the plays ;-)

Just what I needed

What a beautiful Fall we are enjoying. Thanks Shannon. Running this afternoon was much better than running tomorrow in the dark.