A Football Player???

Since moving our kids to Lincoln High School, Christian decided he wanted to play football again.  He played in 3rd grade and then in grades 7th and 8th.  Christian is not an enormous fellow but he wanted to play and we didn't stop him.  He absolutely loved it, he stunk really bad after practice, and endured two concussions.  Dr said that's it after concussion number 2, much to my delight.  Now, I really love watching football but it's too distracting worrying about your kid getting hurt during a game to really enjoy it to the fullest extent.  Since he's a senior, he was a team captain, now that was fun...he walked out to the middle of the field with three other seniors, no risk of injury ;).  Lincoln only started a football program a couple years ago so they were still getting into the swing of things, this year was a year of firsts.  They won their first game ever and won many more after that.  It was a great season.  Cameron has no interest in football whatsoever...I suppose that's okay.

"I love you, Nurse Nancy"

Christian had to have a tonsillectomy this summer. 

He was so brave...

looked a little silly...

and woke up a little loopy...

 

He told his nurse, "Nurse Nancy" that he loved her and when asked if he was in any pain, he said he couldn't tell if he had pain or not.

 

It took him a good couple weeks to recover completely but hopefully we won't have any more problems with strep, at least not 4 times in 2 months again.

Epic Hoagland Family Vacation - Part 4

After we had exhausted all the fun Bennett Springs and the surrounding area had to offer, we decided to go to Springfield to enjoy the rest of our trip.  We got a fabulous deal (Priceline!) at an amazing hotel right next to Hammonds Field (Springfield Cardinals play there), we could see the fireworks from our window that Friday night.  We started with the zoo, went to a Springfield Cardinals game, played a couple disc golf courses in Springfield, and played a little tennis.

From inside our lovely hotel...with free breakfast ;)

Disc Golf at Evangel University

 Springfield Cardinals!

 

A disc golf course in a shady neighborhood...we came upon some bullet casings and small liquor bottles.  I also threw my disc into peoples yard, I'm really terrible at this game.

 

Epic Hoagland Family Vacation - Part 3

Some of the odd things we found to do were go to the largest puzzle store, they really had a lot, see the largest root beer bottle, go to an antique mall/flea market, and we spontaneously stopped by the Home of the Tornado Turtle.  Nothing was there, it was abandoned, I don't know what the tornado turtle did or was but it was a fun sign to take a picture in front of.

The antique mall had cheese...don't they all?

Laclede county was also having its annual fair....this is one part of the trip I could have done without.  We watched a ridiculously long horse pull thing...

The boys didn't ride anything at the carnival but they did play some of the carnie games, Christian won this eagle on his first game, Cameron played two or three different things, blew all his wad and only came away with this tiny little duck.  Quite comical or devastating...

depends on how you look at it.

Epic Hoagland Family Vacation - Part 2

Float Trip!!!  This was a part of our vaca that we were all really looking forward to.  We let the boys get ride-on kayaks and James and I shared a canoe, I paddled, he fished, we ran into trees, banks, rocks, he fished, hee, I love to paddle and I sometimes steer, hee hee.

 

Cameron had this brilliant idea to make the Superman logo on his chest and then apply sunscreen.

The tape ended coming off right away and his "Superman" logo ended up pink instead of just untanned.

 

They jumped off logs and fallen trees...

 

 

James caught his first fish...

 

 

 

I even jumped off...once.

 

This was a very long float trip...seriously, we were so exhausted and

ready for it to be over but it was a blast.