RockTheDesert

Football Season Is Here!

This is Michael putting away a huge nylon bag full of NFL-quality footballs. These get locked up in the equipment room after practices and games. Phoenix Christian played their first regular season game last night. They won - it was definitely an ugly win. They were losing the game until 3 minutes before the end of the game. Then they had a spectacular run for a score. Then the defense held the other team back from scoring. Then we had the ball with less than a minute on the clock. Then we started playing the game by micro-milli-seconds. Throw in a few timeouts from us and the other team. Then we finally punted the ball on 4th down with 7 seconds to go. The ball sailed high into the air then the clock ran out before it hit the ground. I could hardly watch. But we did it. Success & victory came at last. We sat in the front row, near the middle of the bleachers. I watched Michael out of the corner of my eye the entire time. He was always in motion, filling the water bottles, offering them to players, taking them out on the field when there was a time-out. He must have walked five miles by the end of the 2 hr game. He said he had fun. I'm really glad. It had to be at least 100 degrees in the stands. But it was fun to cheer on a team. Mike's team. Our team!

School Registration

I know it might be hard to believe, but TODAY I registered Michael for school. He's all in. All 4 pages of info. The notarized signatures. The $250 fee. The physical exam. Everything. I'm still not totally clear on what day he starts school, but I'm pretty sure it's Aug 13 or 14. I'm absolutely clueless about what day Steven starts school. I looked on his school's website. Not a 2007/08 calendar posted yet.

Now I've got to notify the schools that Michael and Steven will be in Rwanda with us in Sept. That probably won't go over so well. But they will have some long travel days and might be able to squeeze in some homework on the way there and back. If they're not too busy listening to their ipods or messing around with a football or sleeping, that is!!

This pic was taken on our way back from LA on Saturday - - we had Andrew Cottrill with us (nephew - David & Lynda's son).