Fall 2011

Our fall was pretty much filled up with football. Mostly Payton, but Justin and I managed to make a very quick trip to Iowa City to catch a Hawkeye game! (By very quick, I mean we left at 10, right after Paytons morning flag football game. Drove 5 hours to Iowa City, checked into the hotel, changed, and walked up to the stadium with enough time to walk around a bit before the 6pm game. Then drove back the next morning!) That’s okay though, we had a great time!
The rest of our Fridays were filled with practice for Payton and games on Saturdays. We were actually really sad when the season was over. The boys got along great and we really enjoyed the other families. (It was nice though to have Saturday mornings back!) At the end of the season, Paytons team made it to the Championship game. They ended up getting second place! We were so proud of them! None of the boys had ever played before and they improved dramatically from the beginning of the season. Payton usually played quarterback so he didn’t get to score that much, but he did make a couple of touchdowns the last few games. And, yes, I cried! Football also carried through to Halloween! Easton dressed up like an Iowa football player and Payton was a referee! Payton also wanted to be a vampire though, so he did that one for trick or treating! (I wasn’t so sure about that one for school, so we played it safe at school and did the ref costume there!)