Watching Trojan Football

Ty had a home game tonight! Yay!!! His team won and he played awesome! These were some of our funny faces.....

I Just Put My Face In The Dirt

Ty said football practice was insane tonight. He said he was so tired by the time they were doing push-ups that when they would stop he would just drop his face in the dirt! He said he didn't care, it actually smelled good! He was covered in dirt and was VERY stinky. But he sure does love Football!  Tonight after his shower he is memorizing the plays.....nights I wish his Daddy was here....I know I am saying and asking all the wrong things....but he is nice with the eye rolling when I don't understand this football language!

Football Camp

Ty has started conditioning for football season. Football Camp was first on the agenda. He was able to work with players from ECU fine tuning the basics and learning some new things. He totally loved it! He LOVES football!!!

Football On The Beach!

Life is good.....Ed and the kids had fun playing football on the beach today. I had fun taking pictures of them!!!

Ty Catching Footballs in the Air

Ed taught Ty first how to run the stairs, jump the wall, and catch the football in mid air.....i had fun taking the pictures....some of the failed attempts were painful to capture....the life of being a MOM!!!

Finally catching the football!!!!

Ryan Makes The Catch!

Ed was teaching the boys how to run down the stairs, jump the wall and catch a football in mid air!!! It took some practice, but they each were finally able to make a catch after a LOT of misses and sand eating!!! 

Trexler Football Season Is Over!

Football season is over for Ty! Just in time as it was starting to get pretty cold at those Tuesday Night Lights games! He is also VERY happy to no longer have to do homework late into the night on game nights! Here are just a few photos from the season....his games are covered in the blog 'School, Sports, & Work 2013-2014'  

Getting the equipment off the field after a winning game

Running with the ball on a play at practice

Coming off the field after a game

End of a game

Doing one of the things he does best, not letting whoever he is on
be able to do anything....

Falcons Football Finished!

Ryan had a fun football season.  He does great on the line and can fill in for any player when they go down injured.  His funnest moment this season was catching the ball from a kick return.  He didn't have really anywhere to go but he atleast ran forward instead of doing what so many other of his team mates do and run backwards!  Usually we loose a good 15 yards on kick returns with his team mates running backwards before getting tackled!  He caught it, paused to look or maybe just surprised the ball was in his arms, and than ran straight forward and actually gained some yards! Here are a few pictures from the season.  The rest are on the School, Sports, & Work 2013-2014 blog.

Always whistling....

  

Last Evening Colors With Youth Sports

As I stood for evening colors and the sound of the bugle began I realized this might be the last practice I'm ever at with my kids where we stop for the lowering of the flag....in just that tiny moment I remembered countless, like literally in the hundreds if not more beginning on Camp Pendleton in the 90's with Jorden and Miramar Air Station in the early 2000's with Jorden. and than with Ty, Victoria, and Ryan on Okinawa to here at New River Air Station.....watching Ed with all the many little ones he's coached gathered around him on the football, soccer, and baseball fields....all the friends I have stood with at practices all over the globe....and yes, I'm not going to lie, a little tear or two might have fallen....

Football Practice Tan Lines

Ty has got some serious tan lines from football practice!!!

First Weigh In

Ryan had his first weigh in for his first football game of the season. He is still a light weight in this league. One of his team mates didn't weigh enough and another was over, but all the rest were just fine!

Are Those Football Cleats?

They have served her well....

Vicki decided to go out for soccer this year.  She hasn’t played in awhile and she kept going back and forth on if she really wanted to play or not since none of her friends are soccer players.  There was also a lot of misunderstanding on when and where soccer tryouts were going to be and how many teams the school would have.  Two days before the so called try outs at Steeds park there is still absolutely NOTHING on the school website so I decide to shoot off an email to the people that were over the sports program for the High School.  I receive an email back the day before tryouts.  It is not a 5 mile run at Steeds park; the try outs will be at the school, after school.  Yay, don’t have to take a day off of work to get Vicki to her try outs!  Another Yay, they have decided to do a JV team!  The odds of Vicki getting on the team have jumped significantly!  Due to previous experiences with this school I am NOT buying soccer cleats to only possibly be worn a few times, Vicki can wear her old cleats which she is fine with.  Vicki goes to try outs each day and does very well for being out of the soccer loop for the last 4 years!  She switched over to just doing Softball and cheerleading our last couple of years on Oki and then football and swim team here.  On the last day of tryouts the coach hollers at her, “Are those football cleats?”   Vicki, “yes…..”  The coach, “well, that explains why you kick the way you do!  Are you going to get soccer cleats?”  Vicki, “if I make the team….”  Coach, “Go buy SOCCER cleats!!!!”  She came home quite happy!!!

Boys And Football

Ty used to always have a soccer ball at his feet.  Last year he dove into football, and there is always a football within arms reach away for him to talk someone into playing catch with him.  Even if we are on vacation, he will find one!  Lucky for him he had a cousin who was more than willing to play catch with him at any given moment!



Ty

 


John happy to play catch with Ty!



Boys & Football

I am not exactly sure when it happened but Ty and Ryan each acquired a favorite football team.  Ty picked the Panthers and Ryan the Falcons.  Ryan picked the Falcons because there is a player with the name Ryan on his jersey and Ryan of course had to have that jersey and it has been his team ever since.  Ty picked the Panthers.  Don't know why, and neither does Ty....Ed's team ever since he was a little boy has been the Steelers.  He likes the Saints and some other teams, but the Steelers are his die hard team.  It is hilarious to listen to Ed and the boys talk trash to each other about their teams and even more hysterical to listen to them when their teams are playing each other or just another team.  I am afraid for when they get older though....i think there might be broken furniture during games and i am going to wish they drank and i could just drop them off at a bar to go watch their games...but than that could end up scary too....tonight was Ed's team playing a non Ty and Ryan team, so the boys had fun trash talking anything the Steelers messed up on against the 49ers.  The power keeps going out in San Fran, so who knows when this game will ever end, good thing i have been baking because all three of them decided to watch it in mine and Ed's bed!  The picture was hilarious!  Maybe i will add it to this blog if i ever pull those pixs off the camera.... 

Football Photo Shoot

Picture time for the Panthers!



The Soul Taker

Ryan just barely made the cut off for Ty's division when we signed the boys up for tackle football summer of 2011.  The cut off was July 31st and that was Ryan's birthday, so he was able to play on Ty's team.  He was the youngest one out there and one of the smallest, but he is SOLID!  He outweighs his big brother by 1 1/2 pounds.  He was thrown around like a rag doll but nobody ever had to take a knee for this little guy.  If he sticks with this sport i think he is going to end up being a tank out on the field....

Ryan finally let me take a picture of him



Taking a break on the bench



He is solid!

Football 2011

Go Panthers!!!

Football season has come and gone for 2011.....but it was a fun season and the boys were the Air Station Champions!  Ty earned his latest nickname, Touch Down Ty and Ryan was fightfully called the Soul Taker. 

I am happy to be done with driving the 100 miles a day to get the boys to practices, but i do miss watching them play, the conversations we had driving back and forth, singing with them at the top of our lungs, and my cardios on the flightline....but i do NOT miss all the driving i did between driving to Lejeune for work every morning, to drive back to Richlands to pick up the boys, drive to the Air Station for practices, sometimes leave Air Station to zip to Camp Johnson if vicki wanted to swim laps, than back to Air Station to pick up boys to finally arrive home in Richlands around 8 pm.   

Here are just a few pictures from the season....


Ty & Ryan after their first Football Game



Ryan on the far right Ty on the far left, a Kretschmer on each side

Heading if for weigh in before a game.  Neither had any worries this season on being over weight!  Vicki could have even played in this league!



Heading out after a good game




After a rough game in the mud!




Love his grin when coming off the field after a win



Ty at the far left of pix taking on 3 guys!



He loves making touch downs!



Vicki gave her brothers the run down on what they did right and wrong after every game.  She moved all over the field so she could watch and holler at them 



Ty wasn't sure about tackeling at first, but once he got a good tackle in it became his favorite thing to do and lucky him, he played the entire game so he was able to tackle and make touch downs!



at the end of another hot game



Huddle...Ry, no socks on left Ty, no socks, on right