Football!

Well, we have officially closed the chapter of pee wee football! Next year it's off to middle school where the teams are huge, the practices are after school and the games are during the week. The jury is still out on if the boys will even continue with football or not and as sad as the idea of them quitting now is for Jack, I have to say I'm completely ok with it. We shall see...

This season their team did quite well. Their new team had coaches who were more organized but unfortunately they didn't get to play both sides like they had last year and they moved around a lot in their positions. I'm sure being on vacation for 10 days a week into practice and taking a week off in October during playoffs for a cruise didn't help matters but we're not to the point of sacrificing family vacations for football yet! Between the two of them they covered the positions of lineman, linebacker, tight end, defensive end and fullback. The team made it all the way to the semi finals before losing to the championship winners for the past five years, which happened to be one of the other four Mason teams. It was probably a good thing we were on the cruise for that blood bath... but it was still quite an accomplishment for them to get that far.

Sadly, I didn't take many photos and as it turned out we also missed the beginning of the season jamboree and team photo so these few shots will have to sum up the season...




The end of season party was once again a highlight for the boys. They love hearing their coaches compliment them and receiving all their goodies! We'll sure miss the camaraderie of the football family but will look forward to continuing some of those friendships beyond the football season!