Senior Night Under the Lights

Wedding week started off at a straight sprint! After experiencing the professional football game and welcoming Grandma J, we packed on our layers of fabric (still no time to get to the shed for our winter clothes) to celebrate the boys' Friday Night Lights game. As we walked onto the windy, aggressively misting football field while the sun sank--taking the day's only warmth with it--I asked aloud, "Why do we live here?!" Several parents laughed, then invited us to huddle in the plastic half-shelter that they'd camped out under. It was pretty amazing what that windbreak did for the temperature and level of soddenness we were experiencing! Grandma J huddled in the corner with at least five layers of clothing and a blanket and was almost not miserable! Buck, meanwhile, stood on the field, helping with line crew and making friends with the refs (they called him by name the next weekend, "Hey Buck, second down." lol :) His jeans were soaked through by the end of the first quarter.

Can you see the mist falling when the building provides a backdrop? And how about that tackle by G$?!

Super cool that Rylan, Chase, and Josh showed up to support the boys! At first Rylan was just wearing a short-sleeved t-shirt which seemed an unlikely choice given the weather conditions (he was right, the weather app did say it was in the mid-50s--it definitely was NOT!) The trio went to grab coffee in an attempt to warm up. Buck told Chase, "Just for future reference, when you are out getting coffee and know that I'll be around, think, 'I wonder if Buck would like some coffee.' And the answer will be, 'Yes, he would!'" Ha! There was hot chocolate provided by some thoughtful parent; that was nice. (Brennen is 21, btw :)

For some reason the lights went out before the second half of the second game . . . but they were restored pretty quickly. Playing on turf was a fairly new experience for the teams, but they didn't seem bothered by it--although I'm sure it was just as slippery as the ball was with all that moisture falling from the sky (even though the weather app said it was HIGHLY unlikely any such thing might happen).

We had Graysen's giant speaker (with new microphone) along for the half-time senior line-up with parents. I got a rose from Brennen (which he got from the team managers, but it was still really sweet :) They read each guys' biography, and we took pictures with our seniors. Wow, Brennen is a senior!

They won! After the Varsity game it was laaaaate. And we were cold and hungry. Rylan suggested Raising Cane's, and we all agreed (they stay open past 11 p.m., which is what we needed!) Ahhh, hot chicken and fries!

I'm going to tack Saturday morning in the mist onto this post, too. We were barely home and in our warm beds when we had to eject ourselves from such comfort to head back out into the cold for more football :) It was an adventure, and we already knew to pack warmer than we thought we should! So, let's see . . . we were on the road by 8 a.m. and were home around 5 p.m. Still no time to get the real coats out of the shed!

We ate concessions at the football field, and gas station pizza when we arrived home. Then the boys went to stay at Chase's apartment--they've done that a lot recently! :) I feel like I should have more details to share, but we've had a lot of football games in the past few weeks, and they are starting to blur together. Both of the boys played, no one got hurt, yay football!