Twilight

OK, I was like a million other people (mostly teenagers staying up WAY past their bedtime) and saw the midnight showing of Twilight.

My movie review is that I liked it. It was pretty true to the book, but my only complaint is that the actors were not "so beautiful, you wouldn't believe it." I mean, really Edward, with the eyebrows? What's up with that. Looked like unibrow with the middle taken out of it.

I loved the actresses. I thought Bella was perfect.

I went with several girlfriends and we had a great time waiting the hour or so the movie started. I think that I left at 10:30 and got home at 2:30. I stayed awake for the movie which surprised me because I have been getting up so early lately and been beat by 7:00 pm.

If you have read the book, go see the movie. I don't think you will be disappointed. If you haven't read it, you'll want to if you are looking to get lost in a fictional book that takes you back to high school days.

All in all - a very good job!

Thanks for going Pam, Shelly and Shelly and Shelly's sister in law (Tara?). And Ashley - THANK YOU for saving us seats so we didn't have to be at the theater at 7:00 pm waiting for the midnight movie!

The Monthly Report

Wow, it has almost been a month since I last updated this blog. Wow. That is all I can say. I feel like a slacker, but know that I have been busy, busy, busy! Don't you love this picture? This is Pam's costumed interpretation of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". I think it was AWESOME. We had a great Halloween with too much candy. Mike and I actually had the house to ourselves as all our kids spend the spooky night at friends houses. And not a trick or treater in sight. We went to the church for the carnival and the trunk or treat and that was Halloween night for us.

I had a bazaar that I did at a girlfriend's house in last week (mid Nov), so after Mykie's birthday report, I was really busy getting ready for that. I did pretty well, but I do have my BIG one coming up the first week of December at the Badgar Mtn Bazaar. That one is always successful and this year I am in the coveted gym with my booth. I also have a few new display racks that Bishop LaDow and his brother helped me create. I will have to photo shoot it and share the pics. Hopefully, NOT waiting until the 1st of January to be displayed here.

The first report was that we attended Tyler's last game as a high schooler. Our last "Under the Friday Night Lights" with him.

Our trip wasn't without some hardship. On the way to the game (in which we gave ourselves PLENTY of time to get there) the Pathfinder got a flat tire. It was completely flat. We ran over something huge and menacing. It was taking forever. When we finally got the jack out, we realized that the jack was not big enough to lift up the Pathfinder to get an inflated tire back on the car. If that super nice trooper hadn't stopped by with his 2 1/2 ton jack, we wouldn't have made it to the game.

The Pasco Bulldogs made it to the playoffs and were going against Ferris High School in Spokane. We made it in time to see that Pasco was ahead 7 to 0, but that didn't last long. Pasco really died in the end. I was a little disappointed to see that Tyler and other Senior players didn't play a lot especially when the score had Ferris HS at 20 points ahead and NO WAY to come back, but I am not a coach so I am sure that there was some reason for him not playing my baby like he should have.

It was funny, because as Mike and I were walking in, a girl walked past us in a Pasco jersey and for some reason it was really working on my mind why I was even thinking so much about it when it hit me - the jersey number she was wearing was number 17. That would be Tyler's number. Now my interest was peaked. Who was this cute gal wearing my son's other jersey?

I did not know. All I got was this picture of her waiting with her mom for the boys after the game. The mystery gets solved later, but I'll leave you hanging for now.

After the game, we were waiting for Tyler to come out of the locker room. We were headed to a hotel for the evening and needed to pick him up. A little side note so you all don't think I am so callous, a few days before Tyler was talking about this game. He said that he liked football and the fact that they were in the playoffs, but he wasn't looking forward to 5 more weeks of it. So I thought when this game ended like it did, he'd be a little relieved. When he finally emerged from the building, he was being hugged left and right. Watching him, I called him on his cell phone to let him know where we were parked. My conversation was like this, "Hey, when you're done with your little hugfest, we're parked to the right of you." He answers, "OK" in a cracked voice. My boy was sad and I didn't even realize it. I think that the thought of football being over was hitting him. He's been at it for 10 years of his life. We spent the next hour reminiscing about his football days with him and him asking Mike about his football days. It was a good night, but kind of emotional.

Here are the only videos I got of Tyler's last game. Lame coaching, but again, whatever!

But back to that mystery gal in Tyler's jersey. Her name is Paige and she and Tyler are (as of this week) officially dating. She is so dang cute. She came over yesterday and it was the first time we have gotten to speak to her face to face. I am glad that Tyler is dating a little more. More about her later, I am sure.

Mykie, by turning twelve, is now in Young Women's. She enjoyed her first mutual ( I think that's the WAY OLD Word for it) and since then. The bishop announced her graduation from Primary to YW at the pulpit a couple of weeks ago. There was where she was able to say her favorite article of faith. She originally told me that she was going to do number 13, but then Sunday morning told me she was going to do number 2. I told her that she could do better than that since she had easily passed them all off in Primary at least twice. She decided to do number 13.

So she gets up there and starts

"We believe in God the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ and in the Holy Ghost,"

to which I am thinking, "Really, Mykie, number 1? I think you could do better than that." but sat there with a huge, proud grin on my face. But she didn't stop there. She continued,

"Indeed we may say that we follow the abmonition of Paul. We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."

Then she gave a little smile (which can stop traffic) and left to sit back down with us. Not realizing why there were little grins all around her, she looked a bit confused. Mike set her straight bringing her new version of the A of F into focus and she rolled her eyes and started giggling. She is such a good sport. We refer to her A of F as number 1.13. She's awesome.

By the way, the house in Kennewick is a no go. We're not buying it because the owner was a little difficult to deal with and we were afraid that we were going to spend lots of moolah to inspect and appraise it and still have renters in there after we owned it. We walked away. I emailed the mortgage co that is foreclosing on the property telling them that we were still so willing to buy it, but not until the renters were out. I think we are out of luck though. I'll keep you posted.

Many of you have invited me to be your friend on Facebook. I accepted the invite, but haven't been on there much. I have enough trouble trying to get on this blog on a regular basis! I don't know how I'd add Facebook. We'll have to see how it goes.

I don't have much to report on Jeremy or Brigam. They are waiting patiently for wresting season to begin. Not until January though. Oh, I guess I do have something to report. I went to Brigam's PT conference and it was WONDERFUL. She told me that Brigam is trying really hard and she appreciates him. He is above grade level for reading (at a 3.2) and is working hard to understand math and make his writing a little more legible. I was so happy to hear this report I almost teared up during the conference. I told her how pleased I was with her as a teacher. I told her that Brigam had a terrible year last year in school. I told her that he was a preemie, has lost no teeth and that his birthday is in July so he is really young. She totally understood and knows where he should be and is proud of his effort. Great job Brigam and his teacher! This year is already 150% better than last year.

Well, we are off. I won't be posting for a week or so (unless I get my hands on someone's laptop). You all enjoy your Thanksgiving Holiday as we will. I will give an update as soon as humanly possible when I get back. Bear in mind that I do have a Bazaar on Dec 5th and 6th, so if you want to come see my beautiful face, come out to Badger Mtn Ele!

And if you need vinyl, contact me before Dec 10th. That will be my last day to take any orders for Christmas delivery!

The Birthday Party and Football Report

Mykie's party was a hit. She had a lot of fun eating, playing on the tramp, watching Matilda, opening gifts and did I say eating? She had 7 friends come over and then two spent the night (the red headed Shayla and the dark haired Madison, such great girls!)

Mykie loved her gifts. This was a shot of her face as she saw what Grama and Grampa Anderson sent her (she is saving her money for an Ipod, so she was thrilled with the cash as you can see on her face.)

This is her reading the cute as heck card from Grama and Grampa Nelson. She was so surprised with all the cute things that Grama put into her box. By the way, Grama, Mykie thinks you tape REALLY securely!

The party ended at 7:00. Mike and I had to be at the Football Field at 7:00 so Travis' mom came and stayed with the kids until their parents picked them up so we could get to Tyler's game on time.

We had a great game last night at Pasco. At the very beginning, before the game even started, the school wanted to honor the parents of the Senior Football Players. So Mike and I (along with several other parents) went down to the field to be greeted by our Senior.

Yes, that blur is his arm coming in for the "huggin' o' the mom" along with the giving of a white rose. So sweet, huh? Before you get too excited, just remember the whole thing wasn't his idea, but at least he was willing to do it with a smile on his face!

The line-up. So fun!

Tyler's team went against Kennewick. They did a great job coming out with 3 or 4 touchdowns before Kennewick put any points on the board. It was a very hard hitting game. That's when I am glad that Tyler is on the defense. Then he is doing the hitting and not so much getting hit. Anyway, the points that Kennewick got came from a perfectly thrown ball to a Kennewick player that Tyler was covering. Tyler felt terrible, I'm sure. But like I said, the ball was perfectly thrown right over his head and into the offence's hands.

The play that made up for it was Tyler's punt return. It was amazing! Here is a 15 second clip of it:

OK, so Jeremy and I were going to go hunt down that #79 because he was just SO RUDE! I mean, you can tackle him and stop Tyler's forward progression, but let's not get nasty! But Mike wouldn't let me.

So another great night under the Friday Night Lights. We only have a few of them left, then I will have to wait for Jeremy's 9th grade team next year. First there's wrestling, but that's another post people!

Some Ketchup Please - - - - I mean Catch-Up Please!

I have been amiss in keeping current with my blog this month. In my defense I have been quite busy. First, we had to deal with Tyler’s Senior pictures. I have a hard time coming up with the $100s of dollars we’d need to do his pictures professionally. I'm sorry, but I have 4 children on of which is a senior and thus is costly just by himself. Tyler and I went out a couple of weeks ago with a few wardrobe pieces and looked for places to photograph the child. We ended up in 4 different places and took over 80 pictures. This was, at first, excruciating for Tyler; but then he got into it and was happy to smile. The picture he finally choose for the yearbook and his senior picture was actually in the first 15 shots that we took.
Then, I contacted my Pro-Photo Friend, LeeAnn, emailed the ‘best of the best’ to her and she “fixed” the shots for us. She brightened the whole shot and took out some of that pesky teenage acne that seems to plague our home. Here’s a couple of shots of the boy.

Isn’t he so cute? I think so! Thank you, thank you Lee!!!

Then Tyler went to Homecoming with Carmen, Dirk and his date and a group of about 30 kids. They had a great time. They started with photos at Carmen’s house then they went to Outback Steakhouse, to the dance (where I am sure that Tyler showed off some of his “Hitch” moves) and the night ended (somewhat into the morning) at a party that the Homecoming Queen threw at her home. I think her name was Morgan. All and all, he had a great time. The only hiccup was that Mike and I told Tyler that we would pay for dinner and tickets to the dance, but the dance is pretty formal. Tyler wanted to wear a tuxedo, but the rental on those things run about $70. That meant no dinner. Tyler did the next best thing, he had me go to a local “specialty shop” and find him a new suit. I did find one that almost fit him perfectly (thank goodness my mom taught me how to hem).. What was even better is that it was gray (the color he wanted) with little light purple pinstripes in it. We couldn’t ask for a better suit. All and all the suit cost about $20. The rental on the vest and tie was more expensive than the suit. It looks great on him.

See?
Here’s a shot of the group of guys that went to Homecoming. And here is the professional shot of he and his friend that is a girl, Carmen. Friend that is a Girl I said!!!

Isn’t she so cute?
Last week’s football report held something new. Tyler was put in as the punt returner after the regular guy was sick and the first replacement fumbled the ball. This action made Mike’s stomach turn into knots. Tyler went out there three times and Mike was as nervous as he could be sitting next to me. After the first one that Tyler had no problem catching and running for a gain of 10 yards, Mike was still a bundle of nerves for the next punt return. After voicing his concerns for a bit, he told me that he prayed before the last one Tyler did. I suggested that he do that again. Again Tyler caught it and ran it for about a 10 yard gain. The third one that came to him was about 10 yards short, so he didn’t have to catch it. All in all, he did a great job. It sounds like the job is his from now on. I think that he LOVES to have the ball in his hands again. The coaches want him to fair catch the ball, but Tyler just loves the feeling of running towards that end zone with the ball safely tucked away in the crook of his arm.

Jeremy’s football season has ended as well. They played their last game “under the lights” on a Wednesday on the turf at Lampson Stadium. They played against Park Middle School. All the scoring was done the first half. Park did their scoring with a touchdown and a 2 point extra kick. They get two points for their “extra point” kicks in middle school. Highlands also got a 6 point touchdown, but missed their extra point. There were no more points put on the board for either team after that so Highlands lost 6-8 against Park. The biggest thrill for Jeremy was to look up in the stands and see his Big Bro Ty watching the game. He told all his friends that his big brother was at the game and pointed him out to all of them. He treats Tyler like he is a celebrity. It makes him feel so important when Tyler can (and will) make it to his games.

Jeremy loved playing football this year. He has some great practices and some great tackles in the games. It is my secret hope that he actually goes out for receiver next year. I think he would enjoy having the ball in his hands, but then, I’m just the mom so I could be way off base here.
He’s looking forward to wrestling this next year for school and for Mat Rattlers with Brigam. This will be Brigam’s first year wrestling and Jeremy’s last year wrestling with Mat Rattlers. The wresting reports will begin in January. I am sure that you are looking forward to those. I am.

Mykie is celebrating her 12th birthday today! Her actual birthday is next week, but we couldn’t work in the party/sleepover on Halloween weekend. She is having about 7 kids come over this afternoon. Then most of them will leave and 2 girls will stay for a sleepover and Tyler’s football game. She’s planned her party all by herself. I’ve been here for support (and a little cash for treats and, of course, the making of the cake shaped like a HUGE cupcake). I will be interested to see how it will turn out. I’ll let you know complete with pictures!

Brigam is loving school. Yes, you read right. He loves school. I had to write a thank you letter to his teacher because she has made such a huge difference in his feelings about school. He loves math. He even makes up his own worksheets for extra math practice for himself. It’s so cute. He also wants to do his math in pen I am not sure why he does this. Jeremy does it as well. Something with the challenge of getting it right the first time because they can’t erase it. Maybe.
His reading is so improving as well. Last year he was still reading kindergarten stuff in first grade. But this year he is reading on grade level and doing really well. In fact, he brought home a book that was a fourth grade level and was reading it so well. Words I was surprised he knew. Jeremy even noticed and said, “Man Brigam, you read really good.” You should have seen the look on Brigam’s face when Big Bro Jer gave him that compliment. Good job Jeremy!

Mike attended the funeral of a co-worker’s son yesterday. It was a difficult funeral as the boy died after being hit by a drunk driver. He and 3 others were traveling home and pulled over to the side of the road. They think that maybe they were changing drivers. As they were sitting there, a drunk driver hit them from behind at full speed. All four people in the car died. The drunk driver did not. This is the 5th DUI that was issued to this drunk driver. I don’t understand why he still has a license. What is up with that? Mike said that hardest part of the funeral was when the brother of the deceased got up to say the opening prayer and couldn’t do it because he was so emotional. Eventually the Father got up and said the prayer for him. What a difficult thing for all those families to go through.

I have been busy getting ready for two craft shows. One in November here in Kennewick and one in Richland at Badger Mtn. Elementary the first week in December. I have painted boards EVERYWHERE! On the washer and dryer, on the fridge, on the counter, on the craft table, on the dining room table and I have stuff loaded on the floor under the craft table. Thank goodness Mike is understanding. He did request a little counter space for Thursday morning so he could prepare his lunch and eat breakfast. I tried to comply. I just need to get stuff organized and Mike needs to help me on a display. Soon it will be upon me – I’ve got to get going!

I am off to get ready for Mykie's party! Party on!!!

You put WHAT on your face???

Today was a learning day for Jeremy. He went with me to go get all of his hairs cut by Sonja Knight. I was getting my hairs cut as well, but I needed something more.

As I have been looking closely at my beautiful face in the mirror, I have been noticing something there that I don't want to see. They are long, dark and stubborn and I just don't want to see them anymore. They mostly reside on my upper lip or in my brow line. I have my little ways to get rid of the unwanted growth and Sonja helps me.

Waxing

Yes, it's uncomfortable (not like you need an epidural or anything), but the end result is fabulous. Jeremy was the lucky child to see me taking such good care of myself.

I didn't scream or even let a small tear roll down my cheek, but Jeremy still thought it was crazy. It didn't take too much (just a comment about a "unibrow" Jeremy was supporting) and Jeremy was in the chair, head tipped back ready for his "treatment. As soon as she put it on Jeremy screamed like a little girl, then came the rub and rip - that was entertaining! Then he jumped up and looked in the mirror only to see a big red spot right between his brows. He wasn't too impressed and continued to whine about the sheer pain of it all. Even as we were leaving her house, he was still saying how excruciating it was and Sonja had to open the door and tell him that he was the biggest baby!!!!

But after a little while in the car and with him looking in the mirror, Jeremy said, "I need to get the rest of my eyebrows done." I said, "I can't wait to tell your dad!"

Beauty pinches!

The Birthday Girl Speaks

I had a terrific anniversary of my 28th birth year yesterday. Thank you to all who sent me well wishes!

I started the day at about 6:00 am when I have to get the precious angels up and at 'em for school time. I was greeted with a birthday message from my sweet hubby written on our bathroom mirror in my favorite lipstick color. Hopefully, I will be getting a new tube of lipstick for my birthday.

Next, Mykie gave me birthday love hugs and a cute I love you card she made herself along with some sun catchers she made.

Brigam gave me a magnificent framed piece of art that he himself made. He's really quite the artist in an abstract sort of way.

Birthday wishes were given by all my precious ones as they left for their institutes of higher learning for the day.

Then I went into work. Yes, I said work, what else would I do by myself on my birthday - stay home and eat bon bons on the couch all day? Really, does that sound like me? I did go to work and there waiting for me were balloons blown up from a co-worker from the night before. Peggy was also there blowing up balloons a being a bit upset because I spoiled her surprise by coming into work a little early! SORRY! But she gave me the coolest singing card with the song, "Do You Believe in Magic" which I thought was so cool because I had never gotten a singing card before, the cutest feet covers, some WW items worth less than 2 points each, and my very own birthday/princess crown. I was so excited about the crown and I was not afraid to wear it. Peggy knew that I was going to kickboxing as well and challenged me (or actually told me) that I was to wear it during class as well. I have no problem with that. It's my birthday and EVERYONE should be celebrating it and me!!!!!

So I wore it to class where I think it brought much giggles to my fellow kickers. The great thing about that class was that as my birthday gift, Tina (one of the instructors) played my favorite kickboxing song and told me to come on stage with her to do the routine! I was a little hesitant, but went up there and loved it!!! I just don't know how they get the routines into their heads and can talk to the class at the same time. I am breathless when I am doing it!!!

After that, I went back to work (thanks Sylvia for letting me break for my class) and enjoyed the rest of my day in my birthday crown.

When I got home, I took a nap (it was my birthday) and got up to attend Jeremy's game. This is the only picture I have of him. If you look closely you can see his cleat there in the middle of the shot. I would have had many more pictures in action, but to do that, your kid has to be in on the action. His coach didn't even play him for almost the entire game. He was put in at the end with only seconds left, the other team ahead by a touchdown and they (the opposition) had the ball. He was there for 3 downs where Enterprise's quarterback just kneed the ball 3 times. And on the sidelines his "super great wonderful coach" was yelling, "Number 41, get that ball!" (Jeremy being #41). Fat chance of that happening. Maybe they wouldn't have lost if they put Jeremy in MUCH earlier. But I digress from my lovely birthday.

After we came home and dropped the kids off, Mike took me to Olive Garden. We don't take the kids to Olive Garden because I can't stand to see the bill come after the kids have ordered pizza or spaghetti and they don't like the taste of it because it doesn't taste like moms so it is a big pile of waste on their plates. To spare the bad feelings that this would bring on - we left them home.

After a delicious dinner, Mike and I went to Dairy Queen to get an ice Cream cake to take home to the kids to celebrate my anniversary birthday. There were so many cakes to choose from. I love Oreo, and they had a chocolate lovers, what I really wanted was the Strawberry Cheesecake Cake, but I knew the kids would HATE that and I thought that I had left them out of the celebration enough so I went with one everyone would like. A regular ice cream cake with a picture of .........

Hannah Montana!

This one I knew everyone would love. Tyler thinks that Hannah is really pleasant to look at (he doesn't think Miley Cyrus is cute. I told him that he is missing the whole plot of the show), Jeremy uses many Hannah Montana episodes watched in a row to calm him down after watching a scary movie, Mykie giggles as she watches her show and Brigam loves ice cream cake so I knew that we had a winner.

In fact, Brigam and Jeremy show you just how lovely they think she is "Quick!! Take the picture before those kids make kissy lip marks in it!!!"

By the way, isn't my crown so cute??? As you can see from the background, one of my birthday presents WASN'T that someone did their dishes and cleaned up the kitchen on time. Thank goodness I could crop the rest of that photo out so you don't see what else wasn't done! And from that shot, we can clearly see that my hair and make-up people had already taken off for the evening.

After Tyler got home from his football dinner, he and Jeremy went out shopping (normal for a man child - the delay of the birthday gift purchase). Jeremy came back with a package of Oreos and introduced me to "Milk and Cookies" using an Oreo and real milk. Usually I eat my Oreos with water. No, I don't dip them in it, I just don't like soggy Oreos. I had two and they weren't too bad.

Tyler gave me a bag of my favorite candy bars (I did tell them both I couldn't eat anything that they bought. Don't give me food. Someday they will listen to me) and a card that said "You're almost TOO good to me! on the front. You open it up and it says, "Not that I'm complaining." and plays the song "Your Unbelievable". Yes, that was from my 17 year old son who signed the card "LOVE, TYLER" I'm so lucky. Two musical cards in one celebration!!!

I had a great birthday. Thanks again for all the well wishes.

The Football Report

As I informed all of you before, it’s football season. We’ve had 3 games since I announced the season. Two of them Tyler's and one of them Jeremy’s. Here’s some shots of Jeremy.

Jeremy is in the middle of this shot in the red uniform. He is number 41.

The kid that has finally hit the 100 lbs mark is on defense (truly the best place for my Bear at this time) and they’ve put him in as nose guard. For those of you who don’t know this position, it is the player on defense right across from the huge center who is hiking the ball to the quarterback on offense. Um, Jeremy better watch the center closely. If some of those centers were to get off balance and fall forward, it’d be curtains for my Bear. His determination is quite admirable. He really puts 110% into it on the field. Just like in about everything he does. You might wonder the training that has to happen to create such a focused player. I have photos of that too.

It's call the "X-Box trainnng." Thanks to Madden 2000-2008 my boys are more than ready for any football situation (especially their thumbs!)
His team lost the game, but he still looks so cute in his uniform. Yes, I am talking about a football player and I say cute. They just are. Even though he doesn’t resemble a bobble-head doll like he did when he had the uniform on and he was 6 and 7, I still think he is cute!
Jeremy’s team had their second game this past Thursday, but Jeremy was unable to play because of an earlier injury he sustained on the trampoline on Sunday. Now, I was trying to be the “teaching mother” again when this happened. I have told them that they shouldn’t be playing out there on a Sunday, that something bad was going to happen, and it finally did. Brigam was out there with him, Jeremy claims he was doing a regular flip and landed on his neck wrong, but I think he is covering up for the amazing Ninja in Brigam. I am sure that Jeremy thought he was going for a regular flip, but Brigam brought out his pinky and in one small “Skidoosh” …. Tisk, tisk, tisk – Jeremy never knew what hit him.
I told him (after the fact because that’s what moms do) that he should have been in reading scriptures like the rest of us. He claims that I was sleeping – not reading when it happened, but I set him straight. I told him that I was praying REALLY HARD about what I read. Maybe he’ll learn.
Anyway, he is fine and will be back on the field on Monday barring any inappropriate Sunday activities, that is. But here is a shot of him on the field at that first game.

Tyler’s team has also had two games since I last posted. We drove up to Wenatchee on the 19th (2 ½ hour drive with the rest of the kids and two of their friends with us. I am sure that the ticket takers thought we were Mormons for sure with all those kids. It just shows our dedication as parents and makes my birthday gift from the kids seem a little more needed for all I do for them. It’s two fold rewards, really.) By the way, the ride up there was very entertaining with those extra kids. I guess they got bored in the back so the girls decided to do Devin's hair with their extra pony tail holders. Jeremy would have been happy to comply, but his hair only raises off his head by about 1/2 inch. I thought I'd put in a pic of that too.

Back to the game, they won that game in over time – Pasco scored first on the Kansas City Tie-Breaker. I really wonder why they call it that. Whatever.

Here’s Tyler and his defensive line with their coach getting some last minute instruction. I can just imagine the pep-talk now, “Don’t let him get past you!” Great coaching, Coach! (By the way, Tyler's number is 17)

What is important is this little piece of viewing pleasure. This play was in the end of the fourth quarter. If Tyler had missed this defensive tackle – there would have been no overtime. Pasco would have gone home with their heads hanging low because that offensive player would have made it to the end zone for a touchdown.

But my magnificent Tyler made the tackle and saved the score!

Here's a video of that great play.

Then there's the one of the celebration afterwards in front of the crowd. Such pride!

Their game this last Friday against Moses Lake was a different story. They lost 3-14. Sad stuff. Pasco was in the red zone early two times in the game, but didn't get in the end zone. They should have taken advantage of that - and maybe tried NOT to get so many penalties. This is a pic of Tyler and teammate digesting what the score was telling them.

Sad, but maybe they will learn from it and maybe the pressure of being undefeated will be off! Then they can just relax and enjoy the game like it was just in their backyard - with big lights, AstroTurf, a huge crowd yelling - well it was a nice thought!

See you under the lights!