I Quit

 

I think this sums up my life right now. They are burnt on the outside, raw in the middle. What. The. Heck.

Idaho has been pushed back to stage 3.

Anchor cried almost all day. 

Anchor asked for cookies all day but wouldn't let me put him down long enough to make them. 

The results are pictured above.

I am super tired.

The rice soaked up all the broth in the soup so we had chicken and rice porridge for dinner.

Brevick still hates soup. And apparently porridge.

Anchor smeared his all over the table but he did eat his bread so I am glad for that. 

Ben's office is in total chaos so he is trying to regulate all of that. 

We kicked up our gas fireplace this weekend and Anchor keeps trying to blow it out or telling William and Emmerlyn to blow it out. 

Tomorrow is laundry day and I am currently hoping that it does itself because I am just not feelin' it. 

Grateful moment: I am grateful that school is currently in session because I think that they do so much better getting it from their teachers and I am NOT ready for homeschooling the littler two.

Winterize Weekend

 Saturday we prepped our yard/garage for the winter. It was a bit chilly so we had to be prepared. 

Anchor worked until the bitter end. He loves to be outside and doesn't mind the wind or rain. He was frozen when we came back in. We were hoping to get the downstairs garage ready for paint but we didn't quite get there.

(Anchor wanted to show you both gloves individually.

I went out to help Ben and the kids after I cleaned up inside. I must say I was a little surprised when I opened the sippy cabinet to discover these.

We don't normally keep our undies in the kitchen but I guess they fit great right there. (Thankfully, theses undies were fresh from the laundry so it's not as gross as it looks.)

By Saturday night Anchor had a fever and I was really not feeling all that great. 

He and I spent the whole night in the living room watching all of the movies on Disney+. By the time morning came, I was beat. So was he. He fell asleep at about 5 am and slept until 8 am. We both have a runny nose and some congestion. Anchor had a bad bout of diarrhea **funny story** and I have a killer headache, nausea, and sore throat. (I assume Anchor also has those things but he can't tell me. ) He is tugging at his left ear so I am adding ear infection to the list. The other people in our house have had varying pieces of this symptom list so we opted to stay home from church and rest/review conference. 

**Brevick came up on Saturday evening from the basement and announced that Anchor had a stinky diaper. "And I don't know how but somehow poop came up out of his diaper and is on the couch." I think those are some of the worst words a parent can hear.  Ben and I hurried to follow Brevick back down the stairs. As he lead the charge he turned back and mumbled "you guys are gonna need gas masks." Those would have been nice. Brevick was not exaggerating at all. As we quickly assessed the situation I asked Ben if he wanted the couch or the kid. He took the couch so I took Anchor to clean him up. Gross. We got it all taken care of and decided that we were done for that day.**

Anchor was so exhausted on Sunday and so miserable that we took him out for a drive so he could be sitting up a little more and hopefully sleep better. 

He was out by the time we got to the bottom of the hill.

Sunday was also our first snowy day of the year.

People were pretty excited. Side note, looks like we need to winterize the deck next week.

Anchor and I spent another rough night in the living room, he slept a little bit more, I did not. 

So Friday

 Friday was a bit of a re-group day. Ben had the day off (because they are converting all of their stuff to a new software program, so he will pay dearly for the break day in stress through the conversion.) We took William to therapy which went well and then we took a good rest time. 

When the kids got home from school we all went out to eat to celebrate all of the hard work that they have all put into their sports this fall. Everybody practiced hard, had fun, and learned a lot. So we felt like that deserved a celebration. 

I think we watched a movie when we got home. I'm not sure though, it is all a blur.

Nothing

 Tonight was our first evening in months that we had nothing on the schedule. 

Now we're going to bed.

They Won

 William's team won the championship game tonight against Snake River. This was the only team they had lost to all year but they pulled it together for this game and beat them 14-0. William froze watching from the sidelines. Poor kid, my heart hurts for him and what he must be feeling. 

Isn't he a cute lookin' dude? He said something really profound the other day "Although, (he starts all conversations with this word these days.) everyone keeps saying that differences don't matter and circumstances don't matter but if that was true then it wouldn't matter who you vote for as the President because all people are the same. So there are obviously some things that do matter and people are different in many ways. Appealing to some while irritating others." There was a lot of truth in that little statement. It is so interesting the things that kids pick up on.

We also did haircuts on William, Charley, and Anchor. I am going to have to run Brevick down a different day.

William really didn't want me to get a picture of the prep. 

I had enough hair to put up into 2 ponies. We got him all trimmed up and he looks nice. 

I didn't get any shots on Charley, I'm going to have to do that tomorrow. 

I did get a before shot on Anchor, 

He was not excited. (I am looking at this picture now and I think from this angle he looks a lot like Brevick. He leaned his head into me the whole time I was cutting. I wish I had an after shot because he looks smashing.)  *side note, he is not being potty trained we are just working up to it. Also, I had to change his diaper right before and didn't want to waste a diaper for just a short time because after the cut he went straight into the tub.*

Brevick had his flag football team dinner tonight at Pizza Pie Cafe (my very least favorite restaurant). He was so excited he has been counting down the days since he found out about it on Saturday. I loaded everyone up and we picked up Emmerlyn from gymnastics and headed for the party. 

As I looked back at Charley when he was getting in the car he looked a little off. Knowing him I asked if he was sick, "no", does your tummy hurt or feel weird? "no". Sore throat, runny nose, cough? "no". Headache "well, a little bit of a headache." Phew, we can work with that. Motrin was handed back and swallowed. As we rounded the corner to get to Pizza Pie he calmly said "well, maybe my stomach is sick." Are you going to throw up? "I don't know, it just hurts" 

We pulled in...

Thankfully we were early and Sallee and Allyn came to Brevick's rescue (Because Ben was in Snake River) and took him and Emmerlyn to the party and I took Charley and Anchor home. Anchor alternated asking for fries and pizza and telling me that Charley's tummy hurt. I had picked up a cheeseburger for Anchor (no fries, I didn't know he wanted them) so I passed that back. He ate half of it and then the top bun. 

Charley kept it together until we rounded the corner and the bottom of the hill where he started throwing up. We got home and Charley went in to brush his teeth while Brevick dawdled making barf sounds the whole way. 

Yum.

I am glad now ready for this day to be over.

Now We're on Track

 Tuesday morning came way earlier than we were ready for. We got the little kids off to the bus. Which we found out later broke-down up by the trails and they sat there long enough that they were late for school. Brevick didn't mind that but it really stressed Emmerlyn out. She doesn't like to be late.

William had PT at 8:45 so we had to hustle out the door. We dropped him off and headed to run some errands. 

At Fred Meyer we picked up a couple things and bought the pumpkins for the year. Anchor promised that he would stay holding on to the cart and walk with me so I let him down. He did pretty well until we were trying to select the correct hair mousse. He then felt the need to put 20 packages of false eyelashes into the cart. I had to fish them all out from all around the pumpkins. That was tough. 

Anchor got banished to the pumpkin patch.

To enjoy his cracker.

William's therapist is working hard with him to regain all his brain function. I really like the PT I think his is very knowledgeable and approachable AND William is now considering becoming a physical therapist which would be great!!

We got home and the boys set to work on their school stuff. Anchor joined them for snack time.

He was feeding Charley faster than he could swallow. Then he dipped his crackers in ketchup. I walked out of the room and heard Anchor yelling at them so I called back and told the boys to stop eating the crackers off of Anchor's plate. William replied, "We're not, Anchor is shoving crackers in our mouths and then while we are distracted he is taking our stuff."

I then called back to tell Anchor to stop taking their pencils. 

Anchor was ready for a nap at this time.

William had football practice and he was able to participate with helmets only. He was SO pumped to be back on the field. He only got 2 headaches while practicing so that was expected and ok. He won't be playing in their game tomorrow but at least they are making progress.

Emmerlyn and Brevick painted her spelling words on rocks today (just to help her review them in a variety of ways) they also painted some extra rocks. ginormous ones, from the rock garden. Some Acorn tops. And a few other things.

Charley spent the day working on a paper for his class. I could tell when he was ready for a break.

It was also laundry day. Emmerlyn attempted to get out of it by saying she wouldn't do it and "there was no reason why she should have to! Oh, wait, until I run out of clothes that is." Ha, she is learning.

Brevick jumped right into working on his laundry while jammin' out to Hamilton. I found him like this.

He is still like this plus a blanket to stay warm. I am not sure how it's going to play out. 

William has stopped talking. Ben has tried on his new clothes that are pushing his bubble a little bit. Anchor is sleeping, the wind is howling. I think it is time for me to go to sleep.

Monday Was Chaotic

 I just couldn't get to bed fast enough at the end of the day. 

William had his appointment with the Sports Medicine DR. That took 1.3 hrs. They talked about recover and the Dr says he is doing well. They also created a specialized education plan to help him stay caught up with his classes without putting too much strain on his brain or getting too overwhelmed. I think it will be good. Ben has one problem with it because it states "he should have preferrential seating away from bright lights, windows, or especially talkative students. William IS the talkative student and you can't take him away from himself!" 

William had game film watching practice that went until 9pm. He had fun eating lots of donuts and watching the games. 

We ran kids around, went through the usual and then put everyone to bed. Anchor lasted 6 minutes and was out again. He is really fighting this. 

I Can't Remember the Weekend

 Oh, it's coming back to me.

William had his first playoff game in which he performed solidly in the water-boy position. I think he really has that one down. 

We didn't  go to the game because #1 it was freezing cold and the wind was blowing 40 mph. Seriously. 

And  #2 after much deliberation and a hard assessment of our lives right now, we made the hard decision as a family to sell Sharpie.

She is a beautiful, sweet puppy and we miss her but it just isn't the right time for our family. She went to a good family with a little boy that she can love on and another Newfoundland to be friends with. 

In order to achieve this however, I had to meet them in Twin Falls. Which was fine, Sharpie does well in the car. The Toyota however has a problem with a 40mph headwind. After some panic on my part I turned around, got lost in the boondocks of Chubbuck before finally meeting Ben and William at Walmart coming home from the game. Ben could handle the Toyota's wily ways (aka he took the overdrive off so it could get up to speed without staying in the redline.) We enjoyed some Chic-fil-a on the way home because Ben and William met up with me before they had been fed. We also made a quick pit stop at Target. Why does Twin have a Target and Poky does not? Puzzle me that...

Ben made out with some new stylish pieces that I LOVE.

 We will work on his posing abilities later.

I also took a moment to see what I would look like with gray hair

Obviously colored hair wax is not the way to go but, I could maybe get on board with changing up my hair a little.

Emmerlyn received her first craft kit from her birthday. It was so fun and she did it all herself. (Even transferring the vinyl to the glass.)

It says spread Kindness like Confetti. 

This subscription was the perfect gift for her. She gets 2 crafts a month and is in heaven.

Anchor also wanted his picture. Which he deserved because he didn't try to get into her stuff and ruin it.

P.S. We look homeless on Saturdays if we aren't going anywhere. It's just better that way.

Sunday we had church. William woke up with a nasty little cold so no church for him. (Their crackin down on that stuff lately) We left Anchor home to keep him company.

When we told the kids to get their masks on so we could go Anchor put on Emmerlyn's hat, grabbed his blanket and headed for the door. I told him he was staying to watch shows with William and he turned himself around and walked away saying "crying, I crying." Turns out he was fine. He enjoyed picking cartoons and demanding that William watch them.

After church our ward decided to attempt a Zoom Sunday School meeting. There were 9 households represented. Ours was one of them.

Anchor joined us so we could feel like it was the real thing.

(He is in just his diaper because I didn't want him to drool M&M dye onto his clothes. It just got all over my blanket and pillows. AAAANNNDDD

Ben's shirt. *Might have to zoom in but it was on there I swear.*

 I Think that is the gist of the Weekend. The highlights anyway. 

And With That. The Season is Over

 Today was the playoff games for Friday Night Flag. Brevicks team couldn't control their energy and excitement . I think they were more excited to just play so they were distracted from playing the game (first grade is a tough life). Therefore, they lost. Brevick is definitely sad that the season is over but is already looking forward to the spring season. In like 6 months.

Charley's team did a great job. That game was neck and neck the whole time. Great passes, great interceptions, great flag pulls. Charley even did some excellent blocking (which isn't allowed in this league) giving his QB plenty of time to get set and make the pass. They lost the game in the last 30 seconds and that made for one sad bunch of boys. Their coach reminded them that they had 3 weeks of less practice time then all the other teams (because they couldn't find a coach) so no one thought that they would do well at all. He reminded all of the boys to sign up in the spring and put him down for their coach request. I asked Charley if he was planning to play in the spring "uh yeah of course, this is fun." 

I honestly had no idea.

So we will wait with baited breath for the spring to roll around.

The rest of the day went as usual. I called home at 8 and told William to put all the little kids to sleep. When we got home Anchor was running wild in the basement. I am not sure how he worked himself off the little kid list but he is now caught, pajama'd, rocked, and sleeping in his crib. Hopefully for the whole night.

TAX DAY!!!

 Yep, again. For real this time. Ben enjoyed getting home from work tonight at 7. It takes a big load off. He is celebrating with ice cream and testing out the new neck massager that he got on prime day. 

All of the kids went to school today so I got ready for the day while Anchor played in the sink then we went shopping. Today we didn't want to exercise so we went to an extra store "just to look" so we could get a good walk in. We only bought 4 things.

Then we went to Costco and bought the whole store.

Anchor said Hi and Bye to every single person he walked by and if they didn't acknowledge him he kept saying Hi until they did or until he could no longer see them. He was feeling brave because he had on a cute jacket and was chowin' on a Belvita aka "cookie cracker"

We got home and Anchor helped me to carry in all the groceries that he could lift. After that he wandered into the garage to play with the Foosball table. I left him in there with the door open while I went to put the groceries away in the kitchen. While I was doing that I hear a lot of banging and clanging coming from the garage and then Anchor yelling furiously.

He had found Allyn's longboard and NEEDED it inside. It got caught on the last step and he couldn't get it to come up. I helped him finish up and come into the house. He loved it. (I had no idea he even knew what a skateboard was?)

Brevick had practice tonight and William had therapy and practice. That worked out ok and Brevick was thrilled because it meant that he could stay after practice and play on the toys. There were some other kids there and Brevick and Anchor had fun playing with them. Tragically one kid showed Anchor how to pick up the dirt and throw it. So now Anchor's a pro at that and we are all dirty and miserable. We are trying to teach him that he can't throw it at people.

William was given the go-ahead to do light contact at football practice starting Monday as long as nothing comes up with his visit to the Sports Medicine Dr on Monday morning. If all stays on track then he will be able to play in the championship game a week from Saturday. Hopefully his team wins this weekend so he can play!!

Now onto Tomorrow. Tomorrows are always so full of promise.

Thankfully, I didin't need to be Flexible

 Wednesdays since the end of XC are better now. We just had gymnastics and football so that was definitely doable. 

Anchor wanted to go on a walk this morning so we bundled up and got the stroller out of the van and headed out into the manic winds of fall. Needless to say we only took a short walk because there was so much wind I could barely push the stroller and Anchor couldn't lift his face out of his blanket. Luckily I have left the stroller in the living room all day so Anchor can push it around to his hearts content.

Yesterday was laundry day and Charley went down to start his laundry he came right back up and asked which soap he needed to use. Confused, I told him the one in the yellow bottle like we always use.  "Uh, well that one is sitting upside down on Brevick's banana chair." 

FOR THE LOVE!!!!

I went down to asses the situation and sure enough it was. I pulled it off and stuck it in the bath tub and then carried the banana chair upstairs being careful not to let it drip and set it on the front porch. Because I didn't know what to do with it. *I am not sure if the bottle just waddled off the top of the washer or if there was fowl play involved... it could really go either way.*

Today I sent Brevick out to rise the chair to see if he could get the soap out. He came back in to inform me that he couldn't get the soap out but it was making a big mountain of bubbles.

He then decided that he needed to have appropriate protective gear to work in "the facility" with Anchor. 

He came back out prepared. Aka the rubber gloves had been applied. 

Eventually he gave up and decided that the chair would never recover and he would like it to be replaced with a bean bag. Allyn is strongly voting for a lovesack. 

I put everyone to bed so Brevick could come up and sit on my shoulder while I write this. 

I CANNOT be flexible

 I had a system and it was working to get my kids where they needed to be. All of them settled in and on time. But then they keep CHANGING the practice time!!!!!!! For the love stop doing that!

Today Charley had practice today from 5:30-7:00, William's practice time was changed from 5:45 to 5:30 and it was being held at a kids house for their team dinner and to watch game film aka I couldn't drop him off ridiculously early. It was supposed to end at 7:30. Emmerlyn had gymnastics from 6-7. I just can't be everywhere at once. I had to drop Charley off super early which I hate doing and then run William to the other side of town. William was 4 minutes late. I hate being late and he has inherited that from me so he was stressed about getting there. 

Then I ran home and picked up Emmerlyn and the little boys, I called her on the way and as soon as I pulled in they came running out. I am so proud of her. She is such a great kid. We got her there just on time. 

William was late getting out so the natives were losing their minds in the car.

In the end we made it through the night. Thanks Taco Bell for supporting us when I didn't get the soup on. 

The laundry is done though.

Everyone went nicely to bed. 

Then Brevick came flying up the stairs saying that Charley had a bloody nose and it was bleeding all over the shoe box. I went down and since they were still trying to find a tissue (they eventually decided to go for the toilet paper) I just stopped it with a towel that has been molding on the floor *or so I thought. Apparently it was William's towel and he had used this morning. Now he has no towel. My bad.* Turns out William had hit him with a hanger and the bloody nose was caused by injury. We had a long talk about how we keep our hands, feet, and objects to ourselves.* I also tacked on a good reminder to hang up the hangers, not drop them on the floor. I'm thinking that tomorrow might be a deep clean your bedroom day. That's going to be a fun thing.

Worst mom ever award right here.

Monday Came Next

 Today all of the kids had school so we sent them off. I wanted to go back to sleep but had too much to get done so that got nixed. Anchor and I spent some time getting ready for the day. 

At least when we do it this way I don't have to worry about him destroying the house. He does not like it when I use the blow dryer though so he goes running out when I get to that point. We did the dishes, started some laundry, played with the dog and then headed to play with Montgomery for a bit. 

William had PT and then football practice so I ran him around while the other kids stayed home and chilled. Anchor snuck away from his babysitters and found Sallee working on her homework so he hopped into bed with her so he could do his homework too.

When it was bedtime he took off down the stairs as fast as his little belly could slide and was running into the boys room when William caught him and returned him. Anchor informed me that he was crying. he just said in a pitiful voice "cry, I cry, waaa, waa" 

I put him in his pajamas and put him to bed anyway. He is sound asleep now. Thankfully.

As for the Weekend

 On Saturday William had a football game and I tell you what if there ever was a water-boy all-star MVP  it would be William. He was right with the team, ready with the water as soon as they needed it. The team did great and won their game so they are in the playoffs. With their first game on Wednesday. William will still be the water boy but therapy is going well. He is actually enjoying it because the therapist chats with him and teaches him as he goes along so now it is a social outing for William. That's a win for all of us, right up until we get the bill...

While we were waiting for the game to start I wanted to go shopping which they agreed to but only long enough to pick out some snacks for the game and then they were SOOO over it. We headed to a playground because playing at the park is fun for them and easy for me. They did have tons of fun so I am glad that we choose that route.

Because October is breast cancer awareness month the team decided to go the pink route for their game. William put in a little pink hair extension. Emmerlyn also found him a pink bandanna and he said that was all he could handle. (Which was good because we had NOTHING else pink that he could wear. I need to invest in some tall pink socks for next time.) 

Emmerlyn got her pigtails in seahawks colors and was super pumped to cheer them on. Brevick looked smashing in his Saints sway. Charley and Anchor were running around like crazy and were unavailable for pictures. 

We had a lot of fun at the game and I am sad that William couldn't play. I am also glad that football season is winding up just because we have been so busy.

Sunday dawned with what felt like fridged hurricane strength winds. We put ourselves together and blew ourselves into the car. Church was the usual but now it will be every week for and hour which is nice and hard all in one.. Anchor did pretty well sitting on the floor unzipping and untying Ben's shoes. Brevick on the other hand just couldn't handle it. After attempts from every possible angle I ended up carrying him out of the chapel (Which is NOT an easy feat considering he is the size of a small third grader and he was livid). When we got outside I decided that we were going to start walking home. I opened the van and since I didn't have my phone with me I left a note for Ben on the seat put my jacket on Brevick over his suit coat so he wouldn't get cold and I stole Anchors blanket (please don't tell him, he would not be understanding of my desperate plight) and we headed out. We started with the easy part of the walk but with each turn the walk got steeper until we were trudging up the hill. Brevick asked when we would stop and I said that we would when Dad picked us up. So we walked on. We approached the spot where we could take a short cut. Up the Stairway to Heaven. We paused and Brevick asked if we were going to cross the street and I thought for a minute and said, Yep. We crossed the street and looked up from the bottom. Brevick informed me repeatedly that those stairs were hard and that it would be better to just take the hill. "I know" I responded, "but since we aren't going to get to heaven by feeling the Spirit in church, we were going to have to get their somehow. This was the best option for us at the time." Up we went. We got halfway and paused to sit and look at the view for a minute. Brevick noticed that we could not see the church from there and I said that since we couldn't see our starting point we were unable to appreciate how far we had come. We got up and finished the climb. The view from the top was beautiful. I pointed out that now that the worst of our journey was over we could see the church where we had started. We talked about being reverent and remember to measure our progress from the beginning not just from what we can see at the time. We finished the little bit of the walk that was left and went inside. "Well, at least we beat them home" Brevick sighed as he hung up my jacket. Aka dropped it on the floor in the mudroom. 

I texted Ben from the house phone and then called him. He hadn't left the church yet. He was searching high and low for us and was livid. Apparently my note had blown off when he opened his door.

I think it was a great learning experience for both of us and even as I am typing this I see more in it. I paid a high price though, my legs and arms were fine, the hike itself wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. My ears and head however did not fair so well. I don't do well with cold wind on my ears, they just ache. Well with the prolonged exposure my ears were aching and my head ached like relief would never come. (It actually still hurts today.) I laid down in my bed and wrapped my head in a heating pad and stayed there for hours. It was excruciating. I truly hope that Brevick has learned his lesson well, at least until the warm weather comes back!!

Later in the evening we went through our Come Follow Me. I have been having people write down their thoughts on a piece of paper each day during the week and putting them in a bowl and then on Sunday we pull them out and talk about why that touched them or they ask questions about things they didn't understand. We usually have good discussions and it was a good way to change things up a bit. Because Brevick is not quite ready to write by himself he is tasked with drawing a picture of what we read that day in the scriptures or something he learned. 

I found this little picture in the bowl. When I asked him to explain it he said "oh, Jesus will protect us when we need him." I asked if that was Jesus in the front guarding us? "No, he is the one behind holding us." 

I think that there innocent perspective of a child can be so profound.

We also did our family fire escape plan so Emmerlyn could turn it into school. We even poked the fire alarm so the kids knew what it would sound like and what to do when it went off. Hopefully we have it down and hopefully we never have to enact it.

Busy Friday

 Morning came to soon today. I think it was because the power was out for a few hours in the middle of the night. Nobody can sleep well in that eery silence. 

Everybody just wanted to go back to bed. Except Brevick. He was the first one up here and eat his food so he could get ready for the day. Because he had a new Saints HOODIE that he was dying to wear to school.

One of the Dads on his team put these together for all of the kids and the coaches. He did a great job and it is so sweet to see Brevick light up when he wears it. The are having so much fun as a team. I hope we can be on this team again next year.

After everyone was ready we were having Anchor give high fives. He has been in a super silly mood today so when they asked for one he would blow on their hands and then laugh and laugh.

The silliness continued all day and this was his pre-bedtime shot running around in the new shoes he scored while we were out shopping. (because his summer shoes were too small and his other shoes fit fine but had a snag in them that bothered him. All, the time.)

William had his first outside the home babysitting gig. He got to go watch baby Montgomery. (Emmerlyn was livid that I wouldn't let her go. so I let her stay home and babysit Anchor.) William did a great job and had fun playing with him. "he is such a happy baby, he doesn't even cry when he wakes up, he just starts talking." I am proud of him and all of the parents in this new situation.

William had an appointment come up with PT so during that time Ben took William and I took Montgomery with me to Brevick's football game.

He's a natural he didn't even twitch at the whistle blowing right next to him

He just looked at him like he had lost his marbles.

He didn't even swallow any grass while he was down playing so go me!

We met back up with William at Dora Jean's house but since we got there first we had time to chill and torment the cat. 

Although I will say, we were not the only ones tormenting the cat. Montgomery would sneak up and pull his tail and that cat would bolt leaving a giggling baby in his wake.

We snuggled the dog

After noticing that the dog licked EVERYTHING, the couch, the pillows, itself, Brevick's finger, the WALL. Charley remarked "the fuzzy beast has a dark side doesn't it?"

Montgomery was trying to get Charley to release him from his tiny prison. Charley is well versed in the ways of babies and was able to get through the gate without Montgomery falling or getting through. He has the touch. 

Both the boys did great in their games. Both the boys lost their games. Charley was super aggressive as the rusher and really challenged the QB and effectively ruining the throw. 

Brevick had a blast running and did awesome at center. I am super proud of both of them. They were fun games to watch.

Emmerlyn did great with Anchor, she is such a great big sister. I don't know what I would do without her. 

Ben worked, ran William, watched Charley's game, and is now... back at work.

I think that about covers our day.

Go me for remembering to blog it.