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Happy Halloween!

We had a fun Halloween evening tonight!  The boys were so excited to go out, they were ready as soon as they got home from school!  They looked so cute in their pirate costumes! We went out around 4:30 to start the candy scavenging, and were out for about 3 hours!  The boys were not […]

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Dirty Football Game, VIP Tours, and B-Day Party!

Today was an insanely busy day!  We had our next to last football game and it was REALLY wet and muddy!  The kids were totally filthy by the time they got done. It just happened to be the day that one of the team moms decided to take family pictures of everyone!  🙂  Because it

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Scrimmage and Band Performance

Tonight was a pretty busy night.  Football practice was moved from last night to tonight and Zach and his team scrimmaged against the Steelers at their park.  Zach did well.  He was very excited to play a game with his cast and club off!  🙂  Everybody was excited to see him “castless” as well.  🙂

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Happy 18th Birthday Sarah!

Happy 18th birthday today, Sarah!  Where has the time gone!  I don’t think that it’s really sunk in yet for Sarah either that she is now officially an “adult.”  🙂  We had a fun day today.  Sarah opened her presents and per her request, we had cheesecake.  🙂 Today we just hung out and celebrated

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Sarah Senior Photo Shoot!

Today, Sarah had her senior photo shoot!  The pictures turned out SO cute!  We are going to have a hard time picking out the ones we want for the package.  Here are just a couple… Fortunately, we are going to get all of the pictures on a CD that we can then use for our

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NIU Marching Band Performance & Club Football

Welcome to October!  🙂  Today was a pretty busy day for everybody in the family.  In addition to General Conference and watching all the sessions, we had Zach’s football game and Metea’s Marching Band went to Northern Illinois University to perform an exhibition performance. Zach had a lot of fun during his game.  We “clubbed”

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Zach New Cast!

Aaaarrrrgh!  Zach went to the doctor today and the guy put a new cast on him for another 2 WEEKS! He “didn’t” say anything about not playing football, so we’re not going to ask…  🙂 Zach was pretty bummed (although laughing in the picture above with his old cast on his other arm), but we

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Zach Football Game and Tailgate

Today, Zach’s team played the Falcons.  They were undefeated and still are.  🙂  Our guys played hard and Zach wished he could play.  In less than a week, he will have his cast off and be able to get out and hit someone!  🙂 After the game, we had our team tailgate party!  It was

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Ward Temple Night

Tonight, Angela and I went up to the temple for our monthly Ward Temple Night.  We took some more of Tracy Raketic’s family names and did work for them.  We’re really excited, because in a couple of weeks, the youth are going up to do baptisms and we have about 360 names to do (including

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Zach Night Game

Tonight, Zach’s football team had their only night game and they played the Cowboys.  Zach was there, wearing his jersey and hard hat, and cheering his team on! They played really hard and had a great time, but in the end, we lost by one touchdown (I think).  🙂  That’s OK though.  In this league

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Zach’s First Football Game of Season

Today was Zach’s first football game of the season.  Unfortunately, he couldn’t play because of his broken thumb (still not sure I agree with the Doctor).  🙁  He dressed up in full uniform, however because before the game, they had pictures.  I’ll post the team and individual picture when we get them. Although he didn’t

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Zach Broken Thumb & Metea Curriculum Night

Well, unfortunately, it turns out Zach’s thumb is broken!  🙁  He will be in a cast for 3 weeks and can’t play football.  He is really bummed and sad that he can’t play with his team.  He decided he is still going to go to all the practices, help out where he can, and support

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