Football Season

If you live in the Southeast, you know its football season. We've always enjoyed watching football, but with our cheerleader and football player this year, its a new experience. Virginia LOVES cheering and since there is no trying out until high school, we may have found her "sport," (besides tennis, she still loves that, but that is outside of school). The problem with sports is it is hard to get a good action shot (unless you have a much better camera than my Kodak), but at least they are in their uniforms. Bret enjoyed his first game and there were no life threatening hits. I discovered its a lot harder to find your child on the football field than on a soccer field. Those helmets and pads cover them up. Plus, in soccer, they are spread out across the whole field instead of clustered on top of each other. Bret told me he played well, that he successfully blocked his guy everytime. Brantley, like me, has just been a spectator this weekend, but he wented to the high school away game - a big deal for someone whose X-box name is footballsuks. To follow up to the last post, he did not get elected VP - job went to a woman, but he says that he is trying again next year. Pictures will have to be posted tomorrow - it won't let me tonight.

Vote Arata

It has always been my intent to use this as a brag board - that is why I have only given out the address to family so far. We are having a very political week at our house. Last week, both Brantley and Bret informed us of their plans to run for offices in their class. Bret planned to run for Class Representative (there are two 6th grade classes, so I guess there are 2 reps) and Brantley said he was going to run for Class V.P. Well, today Bret gave his speech, which we hear had the class "rolling" and was elected Class Rep - beating out some very popular girls. We had Open House tonight and met his teachers, who told us that one of the girls running thought he should have been disqualified because everyone laughed so much (the teacher had told them they had to give a real speech) - well, Bret had given a real speech, but ad libbed enough to win the audience. Yesterday, Brantley ran for Class V.P. - this meant giving a speech in front of the entire Freshman class (over 300 people) - elections were today and he gets results tomorrow. I'm just so impressed that he gave a speech in front of 300 students, of whom he only knew 50! I'll have results tomorrow.

Hurricane Gustav

As you can see, we were fortunately spared from Hurricane Gustav - this is what we woke up to and other than wind and occasional bands or rain it has not been bad. Don't know yet about the pier at the Bayhouse - we've built two in four years, really don't want to build another one - especially since we decided last week to try to go to Disney World and Universl Studios after Christmas (Dec 30 - Jan 3 if anyone wants to join us). We have had a nice day getting things done around that house that have been on the to-do list since we moved in. I planned a family Scrabble tournament but could only get Brantley and Vincent to play - Virginia's at a friends and Bret hates Scrabble. More pictures soon of Cheerleading and football!