Football and College

Jacob's football season came to an end today. With the Junior Patriot Pee Wee's loss to South Siskiyou Pee Wee team, our hope for a league championship was ended. The boys had a great year and were first in our division. I look forward to next year as Jacob moves up to the Junior Midget team with all his friends.

Mark is at Humboldt State University this weekend. He applied there earlier this month and found out today that he was accepted. Wow, my little Markie is going to college. He will be there all weekend on different tours and checking out the dorms, going to a jazz concert, and finding out all kinds of information.

Mark's football team lost to Inderkum last night, but I was very proud of the boys, they really showed up to play last night and didn't get dominated by a team that has been doing much better than them.

Here is a picture from Mark's game, I will post some from Jacob's game later.

NorCalFed Div 2 Pee Wee Champs

I am so proud of our boys!

Photo by Roger Long

Patriot Pee Wees overwhelm Wheatland
By Democrat sports staff
Article Created: 10/22/2007 08:22:07 AM PDT


The Junior Patriot pee-wees hammered Wheatland on Saturday, 38-0 at home.
The Patriots (6-3, 5-1) buckled down on defense behind cornerbacks Anthony Lopez, Jacob Barker and Matthew Clark, who shut down the run to the outside. In all, their defense only allowed one touchdown during six league games.
Jose Guittierez scored three touchdowns and Junior Cardenas, Anthony Bosser and Alex Zaragoza each scored a touchdown.
The Patriots finished in first place in the NorCal Div. II and open the playoffs at noon on Saturday at Woodland Community Stadium.

Patriot Pride

Another weekend is here. Mark was cleared by his doctor to play tonight. We are playing against Natomas, and Maxpreps.com has predicted that they will win. I hope they do. We need some Patriot Pride! Jacob and the Pee Wee Junior Patriots play against Wheatland tomorrow, they should win, as Wheatland is 0-5. This is their last regular season game, playoffs start next weekend.

The annual Dixon Fire Department Prawn Feed is tomorrow night. I am looking forward to see my Dixon friends, especially the Draytons. Jason really misses Chief Drayton at work. Jason said that Frank was the heart of Dixon Fire. I hope they find someone to replace him and Chief Dorris soon, things are not as wonderful for Jason as they once were. Transition time is hard. I know I really missed my boss Bebe when she left. Sherri has done a great job though, and I am glad to be working for her.

P.S. I prayed that both team will make it through the game injury free.

Praying for Football

Sometimes you never know what you are going to get when you pray for something. Tonight before Mark's football game, I prayed that God would protect his knee. Some of you may know that Mark had a knee injury at football camp and has been trying to nurse it through the season. Well, in the second quarter, after a play that I really couldn't see what happened, Mark came stumbling out, and fell, I thought "Oh, crap, his knee gave out on him!" Then he got up and stumbled around again, and fell again. I knew right then that he had a head injury. The doctors went out there and after a very long couple of minutes they helped him up and off the field. I went to the sidelines and sat with Mark. He seemed almost drunk, his speech slow and didn't make much sense. Amanda and I sat with him awhile, and he seemed to improve so we went back in the stands. After the game (we lost by the way), I took Mark home, instead of him driving. He seems much better now.
I guess you have to be careful what you ask for....his knee is fine.

Growing up...

My Markie is growing up. We filled out his first college application today. He really wants to go to Humboldt. Jason went there, he still has some family up there. It would be a very nice place for Mark to go. He also was able to practice a little bit today. His knee is feeling ok. I hope he can play this week. We start playing league games this week. Everything starts counting NOW! By the way, go to kcra.com and vote for Pioneer to be one of the games of the week. We are hecka losing right now, we need all the votes we can get!

Amanda has started her job. Aaron was offered a job today. I hope things start improving for them. They have to grow up sometime. They have to realize...you get married...you are considered a grown up...get used to it!!!

Amanda works here at the front desk!

Jacob is gone for the whole week. He went to Sly Park with his class. I am really having a hard time (it has only been since this morning). I do everything with this kid! The other two are self sufficient and don't need me. Jacob has been my buddy for a long time now, especially with Jason gone a lot. I think this will be good for both of us. He will have to be self sufficient, and I will be able to break the cycle of doing everything for him!

40

One of my very good friends turned 40 today. We graduated the same year... 1985! We have a good time talking about the music, the clothing styles, and things we did as teenagers. It doesn't matter that she was in Oklahoma and I was here in California. The stories are pretty much the same. I am turning 40 this December. Everyone asks me how I feel about turning 40. I guess because it is the time that you are officially middle aged. I don't feel bad about hitting this milestone. I am very content with my life. I have a husband that I love so very much and I feel very loved. For the most part the kids are turning out OK. Our family is very supportive. We have a wonderful place to lay our head every night. Jason has reached his goal to be a firefighter and I work in a wonderful place. I am looking forward to starting nursing school in January. I am a bit nervous, I will have to cut way back at work, and I will miss that security. Not just financially, but emotionally too. All of my best friends are there at work with me. They are my sounding board, they know all of my worries. I thank God for all of these things.