The Excitement is in the Air!

Today we had to drop the Honda off for some warranty work and an oil change so we decided to take the other van and run errands so no one had to sit and wait for the Honda. Our errands included getting the rest of the football pads/equipment. We tried Play It Again first and ended up deciding to come back (it was on the end of town that the van was on) after looking at Dick's Sporting Goods (where we had coupons for). They are having a special deal on Saturday that BKM Youth Football gets 15% off their purchase on Saturday (in addition to the regular football coupons), but since we were in town today, Chris wanted me to call and see if they would honor that pricing today ~ of course they would! So we picked out some items at Dick's (pants ~ 2 prs, one with pads in it and one you had to buy the pads separate and a helmet) only to get to the register to have them tell me they don't know who I spoke to (a whole hour may have passed from when I called to when we were there. . .) but they would only honor this price today and I was not to tell anyone. Well, geez, of course I couldn't remember the name of who I spoke to on the phone ~ "let that be a lesson!" So, we did end up going back to PIAS and bought another helmet (used) that Taite said fit better, a chin strap and we even found Chris a set of pads for $15! He was quite excited. So, the too large helmet we ended up with last night, will be put to good use! The only problem is that we have one very disappointed little boy who would LOVE to put on the pads too and practice ~ we have bets on if Bray could take Taite down and Taite is the only one who thinks he couldn't. hehe So, the search for some used small pads is on. Of course they have all kinds of them in the cities, but that would kind of defeat the purpose of finding "cheap" pads! So, here are some pictures and a video of today's goings on. Oh, and I forgot to mention, this all took way longer than we had anticipated, so when we finally picked up the Honda, Chris was furious to find out they didn't do half of what they were supposed to and after they rotated the tires, they didn't balance them, so it drives terribly and I have to take it back again tomorrow! I tell you what, that place must have file on us about a mile long. . . It was only last fall that the service mgr. was a jerk to me and Chris called in to chew some butt and that ended that!

Trying to get the mouth guard fitted ~ PLEASE disregard the mess in the back ground! Remember, we were in town all day!

Chris got to dig out his practice jersey from high school. Brayton is wearing it with the cheap pads that need to be cleaned TERRIBLY! Chris said they smell bad and we'll need to soak them good and pressure wash them ~ should do the trick!

Proud as a peacock!

Here are the stinky pads. . .

My Football boys. . .

The first padded "practice" ~ just a quick one tonight.

Chris showing Taite to work on his tackling form.

Here is a video of the first big hit. I had to record it because Chris said he was going to lay Taite out as hard as he could :~) He did take Taite down and Taite's response was "That was fun!" (just in case you can't hear the "mouth guard" talk hehe)

* * * *Please note, the video was taking too long to process ~ like hours! so I will try that again separately.