Bradon's football season and birthday.

This was Bradon's second year as a CAVEMAN and the only thing
that comes to mind is this little cheer that goes something like this...
First is the worst, second's the same, last is the best of all the game!
But in reality, second was really worst than the first!

My heart goes out to Bradon.
He finally gets drafted to a really good team and then gets traded.
Not that he was against the trade, it just equaled
another tough year of loss after loss.

They ended their season with ZERO wins!

And it's not like they don't have some really great players on their team either. And we love the head coach. But Bradon has reached an age where games aren't won with just part of the package. You have to have the whole package to win! And unfortunately this team just didn't have it!

This is a picture of their first touchdown of the year!
I don't remember how many games into the season it was
but it was against our rival, the other American Fork 6th grade A team.
{The team Bradon was originally on this year.}

Cute #7 on the sidelines watching his defense play.

Man, if halftime banners counted for something, we would have won some games! This banner was awesome! The caveman was drawn by Coach Best. It's like the Incredible Caveman!

He made this big HUGE club too!
All the kids loved it and wanted the privilege of holding it.

Now those are two Football Fanatic Fathers!
{A little preoccupied with their cell phones at the moment but fanatics nonetheless!}

Our friend Tom and his son Max made it a point to come to as many of Ethan's games as they could which was really nice! Tom coaches one of the 8th grade A teams. Ethan and Bradon played on fields side by side on this day which made it really nice for us.

Talan enjoys messing around with Max.
And I'm pretty sure that Max loves every minute of it!
{Wink Wink!}

Bradon's team lost the game, BUT SCORED!

Since it was Bradon's 12th birthday
we brought Krispy Kream doughnuts to celebrate!

The team sang Happy Birthday, we passed out doughnuts,
and then headed to Logan for a Utah State Aggies football game!

Eric got us tickets to the game and so we made a family vacation out of it. We stayed at the Marriott, we went swimming, and went to the game!

Eric is #66.
He starts on the offensive line.
He plays right tackle.

The family and friend's of the players section is right behind the band. When we got to our seats someone was already sitting there. They told us, "In this section you just sit anywhere!" So we found some empty seats and sat down. Little did we know, the tubas stand up to play! So anytime the band played this became our view... TOTALLY AWESOME!
I have to admit though, sitting behind the band is totally entertaining. They have all these little dances they do to different songs. They have apple eating contests. And this year one of the tuba players was having a heart attack or something! Never a dull moment sitting behind the band!

I love this picture of Eric protecting his QB!
What a great shot and I'm pretty sure that it was one of the kids who took it!

The Aggies ended up loosing 34-35 in double overtime to Colorado State.

After the game we took the kids back to the hotel and then took Bradon out to dinner with Eric for his birthday. I seriously think it was the highlight of his birthday!

It's not everyday that one of your cousins plays division 1 football and you not only get to go to the game, but you get to go out to eat with him too!

Thanks Eric for the special birthday treat!
Your the best!

The next morning we woke up and hurried back home
for church so that Bradon could receive the Priesthood!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRADON!
WE LOVE YOU!