Almost Like Home...

So you know the boys are playing sports.

R - Flag Football

J - Basketball

For the time being - the kids *have* to pick

ONE sport to play each season.

Yes - we make them,

much to J's chagrin!

He is not quite as aggressive

as R and doesn't seem to enjoy it

as much as R,

but then again - 

not many kids do!

Daddy is coaching both teams.

Team Names are:

Team 2

&

Team 4

Yeah - the Y got REALLY creative with those!

So, 

naturally,

coach took it upon

himself to name

the teams.

The flag football team, of 7-8 year olds, had no choice.

The basketball team, of 5 year olds, got to vote.

At the last practice,

J's basketball team

all got to bring to the table

their suggestions...

their jersey colors are

Duke Blue.

So the 5 year olds came up with:

Spurs 

(after the local pro basketball team)

Cowboys

(no explanation needed)

Blue Dragons

(no explanation available)

Blue Jays

(understandable)

They widdled it down to:

Blue Dragons

&

Blue Jays

then they got to vote.

Blue Jays won!

(there was one vote for Blue Jay Dragons)

So J's team is the Blue Jays.

R's team...

well

like I said

the kids had no say.

Why?

Because coach is an 

NC State grad

and has given way too much

of his money to the 

NC State Athletics dept

over the years.

Coach requested

red jerseys.

Then "TOLD"

the kids that we were the Wolfpack.

Figured there wouldn't be many

of those out here.

Our first flag football game,

I am sitting enjoying watching the 

boys in red and hollering 

for the Wolfpack

(quite a different experience than what we are used to - 

I have been to literally almost every single 

NC State Wolfpack  

home game in the last 

15 years!!!!!)

So here I am hollering for 

my replacement 

Wolfpack Football

team

when the parent beside me starts hollering

for 

the Devils...

then a few minutes later

he yells for...

the Blue Devils

I about jumped out of my skin

with excitement!

(I know, it doesn't take much!)

So here I am

in Texas

1500 miles away from 

MY

Wolfpack

and of

ALL

the team names these

kids on the other team

could have chosen...

they chose 

the Blue Devils.

So, of course,

I had to share my 

excitement

and 

explanation

with the parent hollering

for the Blue Devils.

Then today,

we were playing a different team

and I overheard a conversation behind

me.

The coach of the Blue Devils

was relaying the events of the previous week

to another parent and 

I heard him talking about

our "new"

Wolfpack team

and how he

had heard that 

the coach (my hubby)

had recently moved from 

NC and were grads of

North Carolina State 

(sounded weird when he said it like that)

And, yes, I spun around and said

"that's me!"

So even though

I am 1500 miles away

from 

my 

beloved

Wolfpack...

I still get a little piece of home

while hollering for my Wolfpack

as they play

the Blue Devils

twice this winter.

Flag Football Wolfpack

1-1

Basketball Blue Jays

2-0

Here is a picture of the Wolfpack in action last week.

I forgot the camera this morning so no pics of the Blue Jays yet.

4 kids and an 8am game - I am lucky I remembered all the kids!