Purple and Gold Scrimmage

Blue Springs High School held their Annual Purple and Gold Football intersquad scrimmage tonight at Peve Stadium.  It amazes me how a school can produce such talented players year after year, it's no wonder they are one of the best teams in the midwest.  The Freshman team started the evening by showing their stuff for about 30 minutes.  After they were done they announced all of the players from the Freshman through Varsity Football teams. Before the Varsity team took the field, they also announced all of the Cheerleaders from the JV, Varsity and Coed Squads along with the Glitter Girls Dance Team.

Showing off for the crowd

Pumping up the Crowd

Next Friday night will be the Jamboree with several other teams from the area and then August 26th will open the regular season with a big rival - Rockhurst High School comes to town.

Doing what she does the best.....  Making some noise!

What a Base - You should see those muscles (Gun Show).

Although it was only a scrimmage - we were very proud of our superstar.  I know for one, I had a proud Daddy's smile on my face from the time she left the house to the time she walked off the sidelines tonight.  I have no doubt she is going to be a leader at anything she is involved with.

Are you ready for some football?

Kendall has started football practice getting ready for another season but there will be some changes.  We have switched leagues and will be playing in the Grain Valley Athletic Association Youth Football League this year. Luckily, we had a few friends from his former team in Blue Springs join us in going to the new league and all ended up on the same team.  I have been super impressed with everything so far from the organization and facilities to the coaches, etc.  I think our boys have learned more about the fundamentals of football in the first three weeks of practice this year than they learned the first few seasons with our previous team.

Originally I was concerned that our new boys wouldn't get as much playing time since the team was mostly comprised of players that played for this coach for a couple of years already.  After the first few practices I learned differently as our boys were showing them how hard they can work and what talented athletes they are.  If fact I think all three boys will be in the starting lineup come opening day. 

This week in practice they boys were treated to a fun event where coach made a mud pit and they got to tackle and chase a loose ball in the mud.  As some of the boys really enjoyed that - Kendall was not a huge fan - he doesn't like to get all dirty like most boys.  He still had fun and joined in.

 After the parents spent the night cleaning up their muddy gear, the next practice was spent in a preseason scrimmage with the Storm football team from Blue Springs.  It was an eye opener as we found out where our strengths and weaknesses are and we will have a couple of weeks to improve and build on those before our first game. 

Quarterback Sack

Carrying the ball up the middle

Getting loose on the outside

I have designed a website for the team if you want to check it out on occasion to see what they are up to.  You can check it out at http://eagleswhite.shutterfly.com/ and use the password "eagles" to view the pictures, schedule, etc. Go EAGLES!!!

Family Vacation

What a busy year! We stopped long enough to notice that the summer was almost gone and the kids were scheduled to go back to school in a couple of weeks and we haven't even done anything as a family this summer.  Looking ahead at the next couple of weeks we decided that we had to make something happen right away or we were not going to get it done this year at all. 

Grandma Marge has been wanting to take the grandkids to see the Noah's Ark Musical at Sight and Sound Theatre in Branson for over a year, so we decided that since the show ends in October that it was now or never.  We packed up and headed to Branson on Thursday afternoon and took Grandma and Grandpa and Kaiya with us.  We spent all day on Friday at Silver Dollar City riding everything in the park several times.  The kids had a blast but you could tell after 12 hours of walking the hills and standing in lines they (we) were starting to get tired.  We headed back to the hotel where John and Mona came down to meet us for the show the following day.  Saturday morning we got up and went to the outlet mall for a while to fight the crowds, forgetting it was the tax-free sales weekend in Missouri.  We were able to find some great deals and picked up a few things for the kids to start back to school.   After lunch we arrived at the theatre for an incredible show that amazed everyone.  The live animals and set were amazing to see in person.  After the show we started the trek back home for a day of catching up before everyone had to go back to work.  It was a very nice trip and was something that we all will remember for a long time.

Wildcat Cheer

I think I have mentioned it before, but Lizzy started her Freshman year by making the Blue Springs High School Varsity Cheerleading Team and has really enjoyed meeting some new friends this year. They have been practicing at least a couple of days a week since back in April when they had tryouts.

Her team attended a three day Cheer Camp at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville back in June and competed at the Kansas City Regionals where they qualified for the Missouri High School State Championships that will be held at the University of Missouri - Columbia Campus in October.

The "Cats" waiting for the awards presentation

The High School Football season begins tonight with the annual Purple & Gold Scrimmage.  Next week will be the Jamboree and then August 26th starts the regular season with a big home game against rivals Rockhurst High School.  GO CATS!!!