Four seasons of tackle football.......

Look how much he has changed in the last 4 seasons!  He had just turned 7 the first year he played.....

LIONS WIN!

Last Saturday Travis' football team traveled to Fredricksburg to play the Spotyslvania Cougars for the 2nd time this season.  This game apparently was a must win for the Lions to get into the playoffs.  This was also the first "road game" for these kids---and it was a hot one!  Thankfully in the end Travis' team won and will be heading to the playoffs in November.  For the 1st time all season I was actually able to take a few action shots of a game!  For those that don't know---he's #54 and plays center on offense---on defense he plays a few different roles these days.

Pre game huddle

Travis as the center

Travis tackling #20

Travis helping Max (#28) take down #74

Injury #1 of 3 that day for Travis---taping his fingers together after they got caught in someone's helmet

Lining up on defense

Nice tackle Travis!

Waiting for the offense to be ready

Travis is on the right running to the play

Halftime cool down and snacks

School supplies on clearance!

Now is the time to print out the school supply shopping list (again) and get things for next year!  Travis moves to middle school next year which is apparently the year of the binder--LOL!  He needs 8 of them!  I have marked a lot of things off of his list already!  Here are the things I found this morning at Target:

Thin markers .47
Erasable pens .68 a pack
Baseball notebook--not needed but Travis will love it  :)  .74
2 inch binders .74 EACH
1 inch binders .44 EACH
Plastic 2 pocket folders with prongs .15 EACH

PLUS they have marked down the multi-packs of Puffs tissues---good to stock up on for cold season or your school supply list.  They were marked to $2.48 per 4 pack!

Beach 2014

I am a terrible blogger and got so behind this summer.  :(  Instead of trying to go back and post everything I missed blogging about I will just be going backwards into the summer for one thing---the beach.

This year we went further south to Avon. NC.  The advantage is there are few less people---the disadvantage of course is that it's roughly an hour farther south.  ;)

The kids all had a blast together as they have the past few years----even Brody had a great time with the big kids!  Robbie who is 14 was by far his best buddy that week!  ;)

Riley, Travis, Tommy and Robbie

Brody and Tommy

Too bad this pic is blurry  :(  The humidity caused issues with my camera.

Riley, Tommy, Travis and Robbie

Looking for ghost crabs!

Travis, Riley, Colleen and Kaylee

I know their eyes are closed but it's suck a cute pic otherwise!  lol

Crab

The kids kept digging holes in the sand to sit in and then would wait for the water to come up and fill the hole in---seemed weird but they did it over and over again!

In the pool

Sitting in the hole

Travis, Riley and Collen

Humidity and my camera didn't mix

Gymnastics on the beach

Cuties

"Be a Pilot Day"

On a total whim we went out to Udvar Hazy to their "Be a Pilot Day".  It was something Evan had thought about doing but when Travis' game got pushed back a few hours when we got to the field for his game we decided "what the heck--why not?".  This explains why Travis is in his baseball uniform in all of the pictures.  LOL  The kids had a great time climbing in some of the planes and going into the 777!

United 777

Under the wing

The traffic helicopter from Baltimore

Huge engine

They wanted to sit in all of the different sections of the plane---this was business class

Wings

Sitting in economy

1st class

In the cockpit

In a small plane---no idea what it was  :)

An old Navy plane for Poppa Sam

The 777 again

"flying" a plane inside

Brody was freaked out by this astronaut glove