David's First Home Game

A few pictures from David's first home game with his football team. Savannah was in the band. I'm really proud of both of them.

Work Day

It surprised me how many limbs were down in the yard due to Hurricane Ike. We loaded the wagon twice, but still didn't get them all.

First Football Game

David played in his first game Thursday night in Frankston. His team had never played together before, but they were up against a seasoned A team. The opponents were some big, corn-fed boys and I was really proud of how well David's team handled them. There were so few on David's team, he played offense (wide receiver), defense (line backer) and special teams.

Birthday Boy

There are two things here hard for me to believe. One is that my son is a football player; the other is that I have a 14 year old son! Here he is (number 32) on his birthday.

Hurricane Ike

This is the first time I've ever been in an actual hurricane. After all, we live 200 miles from the coast! Rita was a tropical storm before she got here three years ago, but they say Ike will still be a Cat 1 Hurricane when it moves over us in a couple of hours. I'll believe it when I see it. I'll post updated pictures. Right now (9:00am) it's just rainy and windy. Now, (2:30pm) the eye is directly over us and it's pretty dull. The winds were pretty spectacular for a while and our power went out for a couple of hours, but it seems to be all over now. We've seen on TV that some trees are down in Palestine, but all of our trees are still standing. The radar shows just "green" rain for the next several hours, so it I think the storm has passed. I was wondering about the birds during the height of the storm and they kept coming to the feeder! The pictures are not very exciting - it's hard to capture high winds and rain.