Football has taken over my life!

 

A little bit of running, a little bit of fall weather, and some football plus Oztoberfest.  Let's get to it shall we?

Three runs this week.  Two, two milers with the girls and then 2 three milers with boom boom after football practice, plus a longish run.  I count this as success with our crazy busy life lately.  Not sure if I will be running my 25K in November or not thanks to a football tournament but I am going to attempt to get some sort of training in just in case, just won't be on technical trails like where I will be running.  

Lots of football both Friday night and Saturday morning.  Wins for both the Raider High School team and all Junior Raider football teams.  

Love this photo that one of the football moms got even if Andrew is off in LaLa land.  

Post football we needed to head to the track to help with our bi annual fundraiser.  We had had very low sign up rate and very low volunteerism, but the board decided to proceed anyway and hope for the best.  Most of our club families like us had football or soccer in the morning preventing them with helping.  By the time we got done with playing and then helping with the 6th grade game, they were wrapping up, so we were able to head down to downtown and enjoy Oztoberfest!

I didn't get many pictures this year because the boys were too cool for school and did their own thing, but Tony and I had fun sitting in the beer garden watching the different acts take the stage.  It's hard to explain to those who aren't from here, but here goes nothing.  Oztoberfest is a celebration of all things Oz.  We have the Oz museum downtown, which is the largest collection of Oz memorabilia in the world and in previous years we had munchkins and other assorted people from the movie come and celebrate with us.  The city shuts down the main street and they have vendors and car shows and all kinds of fun things.  

Above is a pic from many years ago when there were still people living from the movie.  While most actors and actresses have passed, our town still does a great job of celebrating all things Oz.  

#68 on the line

We started the week with me being sick and throwing up all night/morning and ended the week with Tony being sick with the same thing.  Andrew and I ended up heading to the pumpkin patch to give Tony time to be sick without us in his hair.  Can you believe how much he has grown?

I wanted to end on a somber note.  We found out this week that we lost a mom in our mom group.  We are still not sure of the details other than she had some sort of health crisis while driving and her daughter was in the car.  Luckily, she was not driving fast and they both were wearing their seatbelts.  Many had seen her pre wreck at volley ball practice with her amazing daughter and she was totally fine.  She was 42, 2 years younger than I am.  My heart is devastated with the loss.  She was part of our wrestling family and probably Andrew's number one fan.  Her kiddos are amazing and some of the best, well raised kiddos I know.   I have spent many hours in the wrestling room talking or chatting on Facebook about raising a late blooming boy.  Her daughter is one of my most favorite kids in the whole wide world and I have coached her for three years in Girls on the Run.  This loss hit me and others very hard as we are at a loss as to what to do for the family.  They have headed back to where she is from originally, and all funeral/visitation is three hours away.  We are planning on doing as much as we can here but we are all so upset and broken hearted for the family.  Please keep the Turner family in your thoughts and prayers.