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.

8 20 2016

Lisa's All Star team had an end of season party at Barnes Park.
Tons of pizza
Tons of Drinks
I told Lisa she had to play outfield.  She Looked like she was having fun hanging out with Sienna in left field the whole night.

                                       David batting at parents vs kids  8/20/2016

                                       Lisa hitting a single at parents vs kids.  That morning I took her to to meet up with two of her teammates and they had Ash from Weber State University come teach them how to play catcher.  She was really good with the kids and taught them footwork that none of them knew how to do.  Lisa asserted herself as the best catcher.  She was the only one that could make the throws to second.  Now what do we do?  Chuck told us to go buy catchers gear, but she has never played and I don't want her pigeon holed at catcher.  She has enough on her plate practicing for pitcher.

                                                          8/20/2016

                                                                     8/20/2016

                                           Nice view of Eric playing center in warmups

                                        Getting advice from coach Judkins

                                       Farmington throttled Brigham City 28-8

                                                          Eric and Jett

Celebrating after the game - I let the kids buy a drink.  I usually don't let them drink a lot of pop, so this was a big deal and they were having fun.  David kept trying to get me to taste his suicide drink that he did not like but he described as "refreshing".

Summer 2016

  Below are some of  the activities we did when I had a camera.   Lisa is such a good little player and she has been so fun to watch. 

Of course Eric's favorite sport is football and he gets an obscene amount of attention for playing it.  I know I did not post a lot of football pictures on here last year, but I will starting next week. 

At the school play all the kids had to dress up in these ridiculous ponchos.  Somehow Eric and his friend received the main part and wore their football uniforms.

                               Eric 2016 All-Stars.  I coached Eric's team and it was fun.

Lisa performed a solo to the song "Footloose" in her 80's program with the glee club.  She did great and I thought was the best performance that night.  She is so awesome!

                                             Lisa- wax museum as Sybil Ludington.  If I can find the video I will post it.

                                                           Lisa vs West Valley July 2016

                                                         Lisa in the Zone!

                                                    Coin toss July 2016

                                                               Lisa July 2016

                                               Lisa playing third versus Vernal July 2016
                               

Lisa and Eric helped me put together this grill.  Half way through I got stuck for a moment and asked Lisa to take a look at the instructions.  She successfully read through the steps, so I had her read 1 step ahead of me and we put the grill together in record time!

                                               Logan temple 7/30/2016

                                             David and Dad, Idaho Falls 7/30/2016

                                                  Rasmussen Reunion Tolgate Canyon 8/5/2016

                             Heather made a game of BINGO that was a big hit with the kids.

                          Wendy was keeping score- Lisa checking in.

                                                     Lisa getting ready to bat.  8/13/2016

                                   Lisa after hitting a triple against Taylorsvsille 8/12/2016

                                                                       8/12/2016

                                                                    8/12/2016

                                                           Lisa scoring   8/11/2016

                                                    Garth talking with Lisa 8/12/2016

                                                 Lisa after making a play 8/11/2016

                                                     Lisa getting ready to smash it.  Yes you can see me all over her stance and her bat swing.

                                                Team meeting after final game of 2016

                                                             Miller Sports Park 2016.  This was such a fun year.  I'm sad that is over.  This was our first spring and summer for doing softball and it was fun.  We met a lot of new people and made a lot of friends.  They improved so much over the season.  I always get sad when one of the kid's seasons is over.  But then in the blink of an eye, a new season starts.  Hello Farmington Eagles! and Hello Sting!

                                                       Lisa's biggest Fan!