Rival Game

Tonight is our game against Westwood, our rivals. After a loss against Round Rock, we've had 2 big wins against Cedar Park and Vista Ridge. We lost last week to the district front-runner, Stony Point. So, this game, as well as the rest of our schedule, has playoff implications for us. I really want to go to the playoffs this year, as I've never been in my time as a coach. We have some work to do over the next few weeks.

The Freshman "B" team won a crazy one last night, with a Hail Mary pass with 8 seconds left and an ensuing 2-point conversion. Final score was 14-13, McNeil. The "A" team had a chance to win, but ended up losing in the end.

We are still experimenting with Caleb this 6-weeks. We are trying not to "prod" him about his homework, grades, band-practice, etc. Hopefully this will give him a safe place to "fail" early in the year. I hope he will begin to see and understand the need to take responsibility for his work and set a standard of good habits to come. I'd rather him fail early on and then learn to do well, then to hand-hold him all the way to high school and then wonder why he hasn't learned to do things on his own. I'm seeing a little bit of maturity arising in him, but he is at that weird age of 6th grade, where he still is holding on to childish behavior and things. Work in progress. :-)

Next Friday is Halloween, but for the first year, I won't be able to go with Dina and the kids. I have a football game against Leander that night. Caleb will be at his first sleepover party that night. So, Dina will be taking the other three on their own. I think they are just going to "trick-or-treat" in our new neighborhood. I'll miss it. :-(

Not a whole lot else going on. We just got paid and I'm going to go pay off my car next week. Yay! But, we accumulated more debt last month and it will take a few months to get back on track. :-(

Majestic For A Day

Well, today is a Monday. Pretty good weekend. Although we lost to Round Rock a week and a half ago, we beat Cedar Park this last Friday. We were really rusty after not playing for 20 days and had 9 turnovers against Round Rock. We actually picked it up and played better against Cedar Park. I still think we can play better. We have a Thursday game this week against Vista Ridge.

We got my nephew's old captain's bed for Jonah this weekend. It is still in the garage, as I haven't had time to put it together yet. We still have a lot of things we want to do to our new house, but we have to wait another month or two, until money is a little better. We're just happy to have a roof over our heads and money going back into our pocket each month, rather than rent going into someone else's pockets.

My Dad's surgery went well and he is having some more tests this week. But, it looks like the pacemaker was really good for him, as he has a lot more energy. Robert Reagan is out of the hospital after his surgery and he finds out this week if any of the cells in the tumor were malignant or not.

Not a whole lot else going on. Rachel was a "Majestic For A Day" at the game this last Friday. She got to hang out with a Majestic in the stands, learn a dance, and then go out on the field with them at halftime. She had a blast and can't wait to do it again next year.