Silas In San Francisco

While we were up North, we took a little day trip to San Francisco to go to the Walt Disney Museum and have a picnic with Nick's aunt and uncle and cousins.  The museum was especially enjoyable after seeing Saving Mr. Banks (so good), and the picnic was especially enjoyable with the beautiful weather,  the excellent company, and a little bit of frisbee.   

The Forty Niners were playing in Arizona that day, so we dressed Silas up in his Forty Niner best.  He then proceeded to soil that outfit before we even got to San Francisco. (I will spare you the details…no poop stories on this blog).  But, I was determined that he would show his team spirit while we were in the city.  I rinsed it out in the sink, let it dry in the sun, and threw that outfit back on him.  And then, his grandfather joined him for a photo shoot.

While I was trying to get Silas to smile and everyone else was taking pictures, Nick decided to snap some photos of all of us looking like dorks.

And, just because it makes me smile, here is a little family photo outtake from the day.

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Football Champs

Our church had their annual football tournament last weekend, where the campuses all play each other. Of course, our campus won, because we are the BEST! Duh.

Esther wanted us to make love to the camera.  Only one of us did.

Nick has this thing about only making love to his wife.  It's weird.  I know.

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Super Bowl Sunday

Super Bowl Sunday started with church and baptisms.

Woot Woot!

And that would be Nick, doing the baptizing!

And then the party continued at our house.

I pulled out the Super Bowl decorations from last year's party and put them up around the house, including our fun little betting game.

I was not thrilled with the outcome of the game, but I wasn't really too excited about either of the teams anyways.  Unlike my sister, who is a bit Patriot obsessed.

Until next year...

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Orange Crush

Over Thanksgiving break, Rock Harbor had their annual football tournament.

Nick and a bunch of our friends played for the Orange campus team, which explains the orange shirts.

I found it ironic that Nick was out there playing while I was on the sidelines.  Afterall, I am the real football player in this family.  (See here for proof.)  But, Nick managed to make quite a name for himself with his sacking skills.  People are still talking about him.  Just remember, behind every great man is a great woman.  

Unfortunately, Nick's crazy skills were not enough to pull off a win in either game they played.  But come next year, they'll be ready.  And hopefully, there will be a game for the girls so people can see who Nick learned all his skills from.

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Memory #6

College Football

It may sound shocking, but I was a college football player.  It's true.  And I was pretty good.  I'd be lying if I didn't say I looked into going pro. They seriously do have women's professional football, and I seriously did look into it.

These intramural football games were some of my favorite memories from college.  I played all through college, and even into grad school.  I had SO MUCH FUN playing in these games with my best friends (and even my sisters one year).  Looking at these pictures makes me miss those days.

I was a linebacker and a receiver, but that linebacker position was my absolute favorite.  I loved grabbing flags.  My superior skills were even mentioned in the Chimes (Biola's newspaper), where I was called a Puma for my natural instincts....I'm not bragging or anything. But, that is me with a flag in my hand in the picture below. (My sister, Kristina, is holding the other flag...she was almost as good as me.  It runs in the family.)

 

There was this one time where the league suspended me.  Kristina was a lineman for our team, and during one of our games, she grabbed the flag of the runningback from the other team, causing the other team to lose some yardage.  The runningback retaliated by elbowing Kristina in the face on purpose.  My natural protective instincts kicked in, and I have no recollection of this, but apparently I ran up and shoved the girl and yelled at her.  Meanwhile, Amy was fired up and started running into the game from the sidelines to get in on the action.  But, our coach grabbed her and was holding her back.  So, I was kicked out of that game, as was Kristina and the runningback.  Our coach saved Amy from the same fate.  That runningback and I were then suspended for the next game as well.

Don't mess with my sisters!

We played through rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

Okay, we don't really have snow or sleet in Southern California (what is sleet?  I don't even know), and I can only think of a handful of times where it has hailed here, and we don't even get much rain, but there was one time we did have rain, and we played through it.

This picture of Bekka kills me every time I look at it.

And I bring my skills back out every Christmas for our family football game.

I LOVE Football!
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My Wish List Item:
Any of these prints by Katie Daisy from her Etsy shop.
(I especially love the last one)

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Super Bowl and Tim's Birthday

 Last Sunday, we headed straight from Santa Barbara to our house to have a little super bowl party.  Since I knew I would be arriving at my house later than some of the guests, I decorated the house before I left for Katie's Bachelorette weekend.

I cut out footballs on the cricut, then sewed them together the same way that I did these hearts. 

I cut little triangles out of fabric and sewed them together to make flags, then sewed them onto ribbon to hang them.

And check out the molding around our doorway!  Nick finished that the day before the party, and I LOVE it!  I will post more on that and other house updates later.

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Before the Super Bowl started, we headed down to the park to play some flag football.

Then, we headed back to the house for the big game.

Our house was packed.  I think half the people didn't even watch the game because we couldn't all fit in our living room (I don't think those people were too sad about it).

And then, there were others, who were completely engrossed in the game AND the commercials.

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We also celebrated Tim's 29th birthday while everyone was over.

Amy designed a Happy Birthday sign for him that I glued onto ribbon.

 Tim's girlfriend Jen enlisted our friend Tany to make Tim a gluten free cake.

It was magnificent!

(or so I was told by many people...I don't like chocolate cake, so I did not have any myself.)

Happy Birthday Tim!

And at the end of it all, I was thrilled that the Packers won!

Go Green Bay! 

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