Fall Sports 2010

  Boys, we are having so much fun playing fall sports this year.  Jay and Cody are playing football, and Riley is playing baseball.  Jay and Cody's teams are both called the Red Panthers, and Riley is playing for the Braves.  We are having to either go to a practice or a game just about every night....sometimes more than one.  But, it is so much fun seeing you boys playing ball and having fun.
  Jay is playing offensive line...either right guard or left tackle.  You are just about the biggest boy on your team, so you can really open up some holes for your running backs to run through.  Your coach, Chris Giroux, has commented many times about how good of a blocker that you are.  This is your 3rd year of playing tackle football, and you have really came a long way from where you were last year.  You have made tremendous improvement.  Mom and I are so proud of you!

  Cody is playing linebacker for his team, and he is also the backup center.  This is your first year of ever playing football, but you have caught on really well.  You are making tackles and bringing the other team's runners down to the ground.  You have some very intense coaches, Barry Vickery and Butch Wilson, and they don't take no slack from any of you boys.  Your team is really good!  Mom and I are very proud of you, too!

  Riley is playing pitcher for his team.  He is one of the youngest players on the team, but he can hold his own with most of them.  You are hitting and fielding the ball very well.  You LOVE to play ball....doesn't really matter what kind of ball it is, you just love it, and EVERYBODY sees it.  You are by far our most competitive little boy.  You just don't love to play, you love to win!  We are so proud of you, too!

Labor Day "Camping" Trip

Boys, every Labor Day, Grammy's family goes camping for 3 days up in the mountains between Hayesville, NC and Franklin, NC.  This year, we went up for a few hours on Saturday.  I guess that this was our first "camping" trip....even though we didn't stay overnight.  They had about 7 or 8 tents set up at their campsite, and they had a big fire pit going.  They were right on the riverbank as well.  The water was so cold that I put one foot in it and got right back out, but it wasn't too cold for you boys!  You guys went right in it and had a blast.  You skipped rocks, floated in tubes, and did all kinds of crazy stuff in the river.  You put marshmallows on the ends of some long sticks and roasted them over the fire.

I was talking to Grammy's daddy...everybody calls him Paw Paw.  He said that his family used to own the land that they were camping on, and he told me a lot of the stories about how they used to run around and play on it when he was a boy.  He said that there was an old mine up there right beside the land and that there were said to be someone's body buried up in that mine.  I think that he's told that story before to scare the younger kids.  He told me about seeing bears and cougars roaming around that area before, too.

We had a good time for the few hours that we spent up there...especially Cody, I think.  Maybe we will do the "camping" thing again one day soon.