Coyote Football -A Night of Firsts

The night had it’s ups and downs.  I decided not to dwell on the confrontation with people who insist on standing in large groups in front of the people in the bleachers blocking everyone’s view, or the kid, after hearing the announcer advertising hot dogs for sale, grabs himself in front of Trey and screams, “HOT DOG”, or the fact that the quilt got lost and finally returned, the super HOT temperature and humidity and how our back sides sweated and melted into the bleachers, or the boy who decided to turn one of the VERY powerful sprinklers that came on after the game and point it directly at Crystal who was carrying a very sleepy Jayden, and soaked her from head to toe even filling her purse with water and how Royal had to come to her defense, how RaLee was left to gather up banners, equipment, posters and even clean up all the bleacher garbage all by herself, the long hike to the car with our arms full of stuff (now we know which parking lot to use) or how, sadly, we lost our first game.  Nope were not going to think about that but instead we will forgive and forget and move on to the positive.

The morning started early getting ready for game day.  Emily came by so they could get ready together…Who knew “Cheer Hair” was so important?  These two girls are so fun I always enjoy them…

Posters, Banners, Poms, Bags, Bows, Uniform, socks, Spanky’s, 1 fence, 1 giant “D”, quilt, money bag, tickets, change, duck tape, sharpies, pencils, and 1 giant run through banner…check…check…check!

“Cheer Hair” – Check…Check…

 

And two happy cheerleaders…Check…Check 

It was a very exciting night for everyone and it was so awesome, yes I cried when the team and cheerleaders took the field for the very first time… Such a beautiful green field… Our girls

 The American Flag few at half mass in honor of Senator Ted Kennedy… First Line up for the Pledge of Allegiance… First this-What do they call it?  “Helmut Huddle”  You would think I would know but after 4 year of Royal playing football… First time the captains took the field… They also played a team that was brand new this year too,  The Poston Butte Broncos.

Our first crowd and the bleachers were FULL.  I didn’t get a picture of the entire bleacher stand just part of it.  But trust me it was full! The squad did an awesome job and looked so good in their new uniforms with their sparkly poms!  Their half time performance was so awesome.  Amanda recorded it for me and she is working on figuring out how to get it to me so I can download it and share…

 Our little Jayden stole the show!  She was so cute and loved her new uniform and was so happy to “be like Aunt RaLee”.  She was so excited when Aunt RaLee motioned for her to come down and join the cheerleaders on the field.  She gave everybody “high fives” and even shook her pom poms and cheered.  So here is Jayden…

 Kisses from Aunt RaLee She wasn’t too sure about being that high up! 

 All the family came.  I wish I had pictures of all of them (sorry) and we were so thankful they braved the heat to show RaLee support.  Payten got a little hot and tired as we all did.

I know I always come back to missing Sage but that’s a huge part of our life right now.  It was so hard not remembering him sitting on our laps watching RaLee at last years football games.  He is always there in the back of our minds.  I couldn’t help but think as I took this picture that there should be one more boy in a red T-shirt sitting on mommy’s lap.

In Memory of Sage….At Last year’s Game

 

Amanda spent hours and hours hanging her head upside down off my lap when she was little.  So I got a huge kick out of seeing Izzy having the time of her life doing the same thing…

I was so glad that I didn’t forget to take a picture of this sign.  We will never see this posted again…

It was a fun night despite a few glitches.  I can’t wait for the weather to cool down!  I’m so thankful the quilt was finally found and we were able to get some tickets sold.