This weekend we traveled to Norman to attend the season opener of the OU game. Will normally goes with us to several games a season. Owen has yet to attend with us (since he was in my belly). He is just now at the point where we felt he could handle a 3-4 hour football experience. Saturday's game was actually closer to 7 hours since we got there extra early to walk around, buy and sell tickets, and mingle with friends before the game even begun. Did I mention it was close to 100 degrees? Oh, I must be trying to block that part out. Usually the first few games of the season can be pretty smoking hot. Saturday was no exception.
We had quite the crowd of people that came to this game. No, we weren't able to sit with anyone other than us 4 together (and that was difficult in itself). We had our neighbors and friends, Olen and Tanya (along with their 3 kids), Steven's parents, brother and nephew, brother in law and nephew, my parents, our friend Chris, and my aunt and uncle with my two cousins there too. See why we couldn't all stay together or even sit together? That was a huge crowd for an opening game.
After much buying and selling and people giving Steven free tickets (that happens almost every time) we were able to enter the game with 4 seats together ON THE SHADE SIDE for $45 total. Not too shabby! I was happy that OU was able to wake up the 2nd half and give Owen a fun game for his first college football experience. Will and OU games go together like peanut butter and jelly so it was funny to see him attempting to teach him the cheers, the moves, and what chants and claps you do when and where:)
Iwelcome college football with open arms. Now that school is in session and I can't really do anything summer related I will gladly trade in the 102 September heat indexes for Fall temperatures and pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks. College football is my favorite sport (by a landslide). I guess God knew what he was doing when He made me a boy mom. I'm fine with that:)
BOOMER!!!!!!
We have survived school starting! It has almost been 3 weeks now. We are back into the routine of homework, backpacks, projects, early bedtimes, and early mornings. I can't be honest and say I totally love it again but I do realize we can't live in a constant state of "summer" so I knew the good was bound to come to an end! You know something else that I am totally glad came to an end? My migraine!
bergeez....those are so painful! I have only gotten 2 my whole life but they have both been within the last 9 months. It makes me so heartbroken for people that suffer with these types of debilitating headaches on a regular basis. I can not function, drive, or take care of myself (let alone my children). I can not drive, barely walk, no eating, I lose peripheral vision, my fingers go numb, and I feel as if my brain matter is oozing out of my ears. Sooooo.....all that to say it is SUPER awesome when I get one of these and my husband is out of town. Major bummer! I know no one knew I would get one but my that made it harder. Thankfully, I have some good friends that helped out with picking my kids up from school. Other than that, my children were pretty much on their own for 30 hours. I got them out the door for school and then I crawled back to my bed. I had someone bring them home from school, I showed them food in the fridge and pantry, told them to do homework and shower and I watched from the couch. I am thankful they are older now to take care of themselves if and when one of their parents is gone and the other is completely out of commission.
In order to say "thank you" to my children for keeping themselves alive this past weekend I took them for a round of Mini Golf once I felt good enough to stand and open my eyes. They were such sweet boys to me all weekend and tried to be really good and take care of me. Love those hearts! Don't they look so handsome for their school picture day? They hate pictures so hopefully I can get some sort of smile out of them on this day!
Will did a great job with 2 touchdowns in the game. Owen didn't have any TD's but he did have 2 completions playing quarterback. Will's team won, Owen's team didn't but thankfully Owen cares more about the after game snack than he does the scoreboard.
The rest of our weekend was spent mowing, running, doing laundry, and catching up with things around the house. Does everyone else have weekends like that or is it just us??!
Owen and I swung by two different grocery stores this week. Earlier we went to Walmart because he was home with a fever and I was out of Tylenol. This is how he decided to go to the store and I wasn't gonna fight it. It became "Pick your outfit Wednesday" around here real quick! 
And the last 20 minutes of our trip home he was speaking in a British accent. For no reason at all...just practicing it. It was hilarious and he was actually pretty good at it. Owen does things on his own time table willingly and well. I've just learned that when he wants to do something he will do it. We are still working on the "doing something on Mom's timetable." Hopefully we will get there. 
