11 11 2016 11 12 2016

Time is going super fast and I'm not able to post everything. Oh well.  I will post a couple of things and keep moving forward.

Lisa getting ready to catch.

Lisa is the starting catcher, but the back up catcher was injured on the first day.  Lisa was exhausted by day two.

Lisa getting ready to score on third.

Lisa, Emily, and Sophie hanging out between games.  All of her teammates are the nicest girls. The girls have been doing some things together off the field and it's funny to hear Lisa say things like " I have never seen Molly in Jeans", or "Hannah looks nice wearing a dress"  She also was commenting the other day that a couple of her teammates are high energy-out of control-hooligans when off the field.  One of them surprised me because on the field she is so shy.

One funny thing- Heather and Peter were telling us this funny story of how they attended a wedding in Southern California and they stayed at a Motel-6.  All of their Dr. friends stayed at $600 a night hotels.  Well at this tournement we were the only ones that stayed at the Super 8.  I guess I'm frugal.  It's a Rasmussen thing.  The coach said next time he wants us all to stay in the same condo complex to promote team unity.  So much for our cheap (but spacious) $100 a night hotel room.

Lisa was a team captain, Kylie came over from UNLV, and Monte in red.

Lisa after hitting a single

Lisa after stealing second base.

Eric (thought I was asleep) getting caught throwing something over the balcony into the pool.

Ice Cream

 Sunday night Lisa's Sunday school teachers took their kids to one of their ice cream facilities in Ogden.  It was a big deal and Lisa said everyone had a lot of fun. She said they all tried six different flavors.  I don't know, I just think it is cool of the Farr's to do that.  When I was growing up I had few teachers that were so fun and did that kind of stuff.

Lisa on third base at Brigham City.

Lisa catching.  She did average the first inning and then did fantastic the 2nd inning.

I don't have any pictures but she also played third base and made some amazing plays.  She tagged a girl out, and fielded a really hard hit ball and threw it to first.  She made the play look easy.

Before

After

                                                                           Football

This football game did not go over so well.  It turned out the team we played was good, but not that good.  However, the league brought in a hot-shot high school reffing crew; two of them were jerks, the other two were fine.   We lost the game because of this crew and as you can imagine  a lot of people were pissed.  Everything that is wrong with sports- it happened during this game.  And it all happened on the Farmington side.  They did not call the other team on any penalties, just us.  Multiple people were ejected throughout the game.  Even the umpire got in it with a parent towards the end.  I like the way our head coach handled the situation.  He is such a good coach and a good example to the kids.  He also commands great respect.  A couple of times parents started swearing so the flags started to fly.  After the refs made the call John just turned around and said "who said that!" and the parents immediately took responsibility and left the facilities.  I think everyone respects John so much they will do what ever he says.  That is a huge compliment to our coach considering how high emotions tend to run at these things.  I think it is a good example to have a coach that gets fired up in the right way.  He is kind of like Kyle Whittingham- gets fired up and yells a lot but cares about the kids and puts a lot of thought into the kids.  It's a wonder we only lost by 6 points with this crew.

Eric made all his plays at center.  He only had one bad hike out of the shotgun but it was good enough that the quarter back got it and made a play.

One thing that I really like about football is the camaraderie between the players is the highest of any sport.  The families too. We often would go out out eat and hang out with the other families which is common from everyone I talk to who has a child that played football.  It is pretty cool that Eric has his football family and that they all look out for each other.  It was a great year!

Playoffs

Eric played well in his first playoff game.   His team is good.  But they are undersized.  We only have one X-man;  the other team had the whole line of X-men and they had a full back that was huge.  They kept handing off to the big full back and he would gain 3-4 yards every play.  They could never break a play because our guys were too fast.  It was a fun game.  Jett hits so hard.  This next game we are supposed to get creamed, but you never know because we have a lot of good athletes.

Eric in shotgun formation.

Eric hiking the ball.

Travis scoring one of his many touchdowns.  I know his family pretty well and they are the nicest people.  

Lisa catching in the Kaysville super league.

So today Lisa was catching for Reagan again.  It makes me nervous.  But they all think it's fun.  They are all fun to hang out with in all, but Reagan throws hard.  They were all asking how old Lisa is and they think it is fun that she can catch.

Two or three weeks ago against Kaysville.  I found it interesting that we absolutely blew them out considering Davis High is the dominant player around here.  One thing is for certain, Davis High will not be dominant without the Farmington kids.  Will be interesting to see how the new high school shakes things up.  It was nice of Mom to put her arm around Eric after the game- he was a ball of sweat.

Smithfield

The kids wanted to barbecue really bad on labor day and it was a busy weekend, so we ended up roasting hot dogs in the back yard.

                                          Daisey was laser focused on David's hot dog. 

                                           Kids playing trac ball after eating

Today was a fun day.  I was up at 6:30 AM to take Lisa to Softball.  After practice we drove up to Smithfield for Eric's football game.  He had a good game.  He has some real chemistry going with his teammates.  They all like him and he likes them.

                          Eric getting ready to hike the ball.  Eric likes to talk about football.  He will talk for hours about the different schemes and where he is supposed to be based on the play.

Eric hiking ball against Smithfield Bobcats.  The game was never close.  We blew them out.

                                                      Eric at Defensive tackle

This is the game all the parents became restless and started yelling at the refs.  It started to become obvious the were on the side of the home town team.  

                                          Leaving after the game.

                                       Coach John talking to the team

                                        David taking a picture of Eric and I after the game

We were not sure if David took a good picture so we had someone take a picture of the three of us.  Notice how I'm wearing my ASU shirt shirt is more than 20 years old.  Yes I like my wardrobe.  At the family reunion my sisters and Wendy were giving me a really hard time when Katie dug out these old pictures and Wendy says "Those are the same clothes you wear today"

Logan

Eric had a great game today.  2 hurries on the quarterback, 3 tackles, and 1 QB sack.  He was pretty excited.  He was all over the field.  He did a great job blocking on offense.

I asked Eric who he eats lunch with.  I guess five of his football buddies save a table for each other and he eats lunch with them.  Then he has the neighborhood friends that just loves and he plays with them during the afternoon recess.

                               Eric was team captian along with three others

                                                      Eric lining up at defensive tackle

                                                        Lisa playing catcher on Utah Sting

Syracuse

The team had a rough game versus Syracuse but  Eric is still having a lot of fun.