Gametime for Coleman

Coleman has gone football crazy this fall.  It all started with the first Utah homegame of the year.  Bud and Coleman watched the game together on TV, and Bud explained every play to Coleman.  Coleman watched the entire game and has been hooked every since.

Hanging in Coleman's locker at home is a Utah Football poster.  After every game Coleman marks it as a win or loss.  Unfortunately, we have had many losses!  He noticed that the game on October 27 was a Black-out game and Coleman was determined to go.  We told him he could go, unless the game started too late at night.    (Gametimes are not announced until a week before the game.)  In the meantime, Coleman told anyone who would listen that he was going to the Black-Out game and that he was wearing his black Star jersey.

Then we had to deliver the bad news to Coleman; gametime was 8:30 pm.  Too late for him!  We promised if the next game was at an earlier time he could go.  The next home game was Washington State and it started at the perfect time of one in the afternoon-- Coleman could go!  Grandpa told Coleman the good news and Coleman was so excited!

Jono was out of town on a business trip, so Bud, Grandpa, Coleman and I went to the game.  It was a beautiful fall afternoon, a perfect day for college football!  We stopped at Hires on the way to eat lunch.  Coleman couldn't believe how fun it was to get car service.  He kept putting his seatbelt on, and we kept telling him to take it off.  (It was ironic because he doesn't like to wear his seatbelt when the car is moving!)  He enjoyed his hamburger and frosty rootbeer.

We got to the game in plenty of time to watch the teams warm up.  Coleman cannot sit by an adult without crawling into their lap to sit, so he sat on Grandpa's lap the first half and my lap the second half.  His favorite play of the game was Reggie Dunn returning the second half kick-off for a touchdown!  Utah played well and we were up 45 to 6.  With 30 seconds to go in the game, Grandpa was ready to leave.  Coleman was horrified-- can't we stay until it's over?  We stayed, of course, and then Coleman wanted to rush the field! 

It was very fun to be with Coleman at the Utah game!  (and Grandpa and Bud!!)

At our recent family football games, Coleman always has to receive the ball on kickoffs.  Bud asked if he could be the kickoff return man one time and Coleman yelled!  He said, "I'm Reggie Dunn, you're not Reggie Dunn!"

Also this month, we cooked our first turkey dinner for the season and had Grammy and Grandpa over to eat with us.  It was delicious!  You might notice in the picture from the Utah game Bud's long hair.  Ever since he turned 13, his hair has gotten very coarse and curly.  We blame it on puberty!  We saw a little boy with curly hair and Coleman whispered to me, "Look that boy looks like he's only 6 years old and he's already gone through puberty!"  Bud has had a little bit longer hair all summer and fall, but he was finally ready for a shorter hair cut.  Jono recently cut it with the flobee and it fillled the vacuum space right up with his coarse hair!

We had more snow in two days than we did all last winter.  Jono loves to shovel the driveway and walk way to the front door.  This kids loved playing in the snow!  Coleman refuses to wear his coat to recess and comes home sopping wet from the knees down because he still plays football at recess.  He is very forgetful (so is Rosie) and in the same week forgot his jacket, gloves, hat and football at school.  I am constantly checking the school's lost and found!