Football and a six pack! Yes!!!!

Saturday was a great day!

I did have to wake up and go to work, but that's just a minor detail.

After I got of work the fun began! The first thing I did was stop and register my son for his first year of.............wait for it...............wait for it.............FOOTBALL!!!!! It's flag, no hitting yet, but I'm so excited! I grew up helping out at one of the local Pee Wee teams, my little brother played, my dad coached, I worked in the concession stand(the year after a was a cheerleader, at 10 or so), and my mom, well she helped set up and clean up the field like we all did. I walked into the club house, which also doubles as the meeting room during games with a chalk board and benches and coaches and kids and chaos and I LOVE IT ALL!!!! I can't wait for practices to start and just the routine and drama that is football. They said they needed a coach still for Ty's team and my ears perked. When Ty was little I asked my dad if he would come out of football coaching retirement to catch Ty's team and he said yes. This year he is building a house and can't do it but I know he would love to do it next year, if he's not still building the house :) J/K mom, I'm sure you'll be done way before then. ~That was me assuming that my mom reads my blog, I'm actually pretty sure she doesn't~ Anyway back to my story. The one thought running around in my head is---Are moms allowed to coach football? I know that there isn't any rule that says no but you just really don't see that often, I never have. But in my head I just know that if my dad pointed me in the right direction I could do great! Or at least limp along and just be a body until he was available the next year.

So this is not my kid's but his team will actually have these colors! I grew up playing in North Kitsap Pee Wees whose colors were red and black. Chico is who my son is going to play for and they are red and white. It's the field we always used to call the dust bowl or the gavel pit because it's dirt, all dirt. I can see all the socks and dirt now.....and oh yeah, we live in Washington, mud, everywhere!!!!

Okay so the next awesome thing that happened Saturday....It was my Grandpa Heywood's 75th birthday!!!!!! AMAZING 75 years old and he's just the busiest guy I've ever seen, I know he's got me beat. He makes me look pretty bad and that is OKAY with me! Yea Grandpa! We went to one of my Grandpa's favorite restaurants, our local Mongolian BBQ. You know it, big bowls of meat and veggies piled high and then sauces drizzled over and then, yes, the sizzle of someone cooking it up right in front of you. Mmmmm, beef, pork, shrimp, crunchy noodles, cabbage, carrots, broccoli, green onions, soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger sauce, garlic sauce, and lemon water. Twice. with some white rice thrown in at the table and a little of the chili sauce on the side. TWICE!!! I ate so much and it was great goodness. My hubby doesn't take me there very often and Chinese is tied with Pasta as my all time favorite! I ate it up Saturday, literally, all of it! And then we got to go back to my Grandparent's house to celebrate Grandpa's birthday with cake and ice cream and cards. Since I am his favorite granddaughter(the oldest of the three girl grand kids with a total of 26 grand kids, AND the only gran child to have given him great-grand babies) I had to get him his favorite breakfast! Cinnabon! I got him a six pack for his birthday and a gift card loaded with a second pack once that one is done. Yeah, the perfect present, I know.

It was a great Saturday. Football, Chinese, and a birthday, oh and sunshine too! :)