Sports Updates

Action shots of one of Alex's catches.

Alex blocking for his quarterback, who was running a kickoff back for a touchdown.

Hayley with her winning Hawks team.

Texas weather, hot one day...

...cold the next.

Hayley and one of her friends doing cartwheels down the track.

SMU

Each year SMU invites all Allen football players to wear their jersey and down on the field before the game. This year they played Navy, so the game ball was brought it by parachutes, and they had a fly by after the national anthem. Hayley thought this was the most exciting pregame ever. Also President George Bush Jr. and his wife came (I think his wife went to school there). They entered the stadium through the portal we were sitting at. It was a fun game, but very cold for us Texans.

5th Grade Camp

It is tradition for the Allen schools to take their 5th graders on a three day two night camp. They stay in assigned cabins, go to mini classes, canoe, shoot bows and arrows, hike and have a whole lot of fun. This year Alex's camp was from September 16-18. (Geoff was supposed to go with him as a chaperone, but a sudden and very unfortunate work trip left him stranded in Australia without a suitcase.) Here is a picture of Alex before he left. I should have got one when he returned too, it rained everyday, and he came back (and everything he took) covered in mud.