August Misc

Here are a few miscellaneous things from August.  I enjoyed a girls lunch outing one day after the kids were in school.  

We went to an Eagle Court of Honor for Jared's friend Jay.  They've known each other since elementary school.  Jared introduced Jay to cub scouts, but then when we came back from England, Jared didn't continue with scouts.  We're glad that Jay stuck with it and became an Eagle Scout.  It was good to see him and his family again.  We hadn't seen them much since Jared and Jay went to different high schools.  

Owen played not only basketball this summer but also football practices Monday-Friday.  Freshman football started right away with the start of school.  Owen played linebacker and punter, but he was also a back-up quarterback.  The very first day, during try-outs, they asked who wanted to play quarterback.  One guy stepped up.  So then the coaches re-phrased it to "Who can throw the ball?"  Owen's friends nudged him, and he and one other guy stepped up.  The coach then said, "You three are the quarterbacks."  He trained during practice for quarterback, but then he never got a chance to play that position during the games.  

We had a ton of apples falling off our tree in August, so it was pie-making time.  We made several pies to give away.