FOOTBALL!

As most of you know Football season is here! And that makes the Eby family quite happy! Chris grew up in Cleveland and is a huge Browns fan and I of course grew up in Ann Arbor and am a huge Michigan fan. We are both very happy when fall rolls around and we're able to watch football all weekend long.

This year Chris was given tickets to the Browns/Lions preseason game from a customer. Since kids of all ages need a ticket to go to an NFL game none of the kids has been to a Browns game. Since Chris was given two tickets and it was a preseason game Chris decided to take Jake to his first Browns game. Of course Jake was very excited and Brenden was very disappointed. Brenden was assured though that he would get to go to a game when he as a little older. Jake and Chris had a good time at the game, but Jake was very displeased with the amount of noise. Apparently he yelled at everyone around him to be quiet, which seems odd to me since he's very loud most of the time :-) Here's a picture of Jake in his Browns jersey, he was ready to go by 10am and the game wasn't until 5pm!

So with the Michigan opener scheduled for September 4th and Rylan's due date September 5th we had been hoping that she would come early so that we could all as a family go to the Michigan opener which was also the Rededication of the Stadium with the construction complete. I was so happy that we were able to make it work and all go to the game. Somehow we all made it down to the stadium and we some how were able to get to our seats right as the game kicked off. The boys even got to see the jets fly over before the game started - very cool for them! Unfortunately I was unable to stay for the whole game, but I was able to get home in time to watch the entire second half. Jake also came home with me, he was very upset with all of the noise, he even started cheering for UConn because "their fans aren't loud". Brenden and Chris stayed through about 3/4 of the game and had a great time. I was unable to get a group just because Jake wouldn't cooperate, but my mom did get a few shots of Rylan in her Michigan gear and one of Brenden at the the game:

So that's been some of our excitement over the past month. I headed back to coaching about 2 weeks after Rylan was born and have had one meet. She's been doing great so far being at the pool everyday, she sleeps the whole time:-) The boys are busy with school. Chris has been busy working and keeping the boys out of my hair so I'm not too crazed all the time. He has also been able to have a break and he's playing Ultimate Frisbee a couple of nights a week since I haven't gone back to coaching at Legacy just yet. Overall we all seem to be adjusting well to being a family of five!