Walking out onto the field at the start of the game brought back a flood of memories, for both of us. Once the game started, Jared turned to me and said, I forgot how brutal this was. I remembered.
Those were fun days. The team was, good, really good, they still are. It was fun to watch them blow away every team they played, and go on to win the National Championships his final year.
Hunter was impressed when the coach recognized Jared and called him by name. He turned to Linsey in amazement and she said, "Well, he was the best player on the team!"
He certainly was my favorite player, and he was pretty amazing!
We came prepared to cheer! It was cold, but the cougars played a good game and beat the Huskies 48-5.
We had so much fun we came out the next day to watch them play a club team from the Rugby Super League, OPSB. Coach Smyth likes to have the team play some good club teams while they are out so they have some experience playing hard teams before the National Championships. This was just what he ordered. It was a tough game. We were behind and with just 2 minutes left, BYU scored a try and took the lead 19-15. OPSB fought hard and was able to get within a meter of scoring before being dragged out of bounds. It was a crazy finish and the fans went wild! Go Cougars!
Linsey enjoyed some glory of her own as her soccer team was awarded 2nd place in their district.
Pretty cool! She had another great soccer season and is gearing up to start again this Spring!
Go Strykers!
And just because it's such a big deal to Emma, I have to add that she has finally lost that long awaited first tooth. My kids all seem to be the last of their friends, and their entire first grade classes to loose a tooth. It makes the day they finally loose their first tooth that much more exciting, and that day was yesterday for Emma.... finally!
She even let Jared pull it out for her, and he really had to pull. It wasn't one of those hanging by a thread situations. He told her it might hurt a little bit and she said, "I don't care." That's my girl! I love that toothless, proud smile.
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You know it is still a little bit amazing to me that you married a rugby player. Didn't see that one coming. But he is such a nice rugby player, of course I never saw the killer instict (which I am sure he does have) in action. And it was really nice of you to marry in some athletic ability to the family gene pool. Look at how it paid off-congrats Lindsey! Love her comment about her dad, glad you wrote that one down so it won't be forgotten! Seriously, I am still so impressed that Jared was so good at such a killer hard sport! Glad you family got to share it with him!
I have never actually seen a rugby match before, but it looks pretty intense. How fun to go watch as a family.
And congrats to Linsey and Emma! Carson is still waiting on that first loose tooth and is convinced he is the only six year old in the world who hasn't lost one yet. It's definitely going to be an exciting day around here when that first one finally decides to comes out. :)
How fun Camille. Ryan played college Rugby too... but for another team, up north, wearing red. :) I married him anyway. What a fun family outing... Ryan takes us up to the U's pitch at least once a year to cheer on the team, which I'm happy to do as long as they're not playing the Cougs. Ryan was a prop, what did Jared play?
The rugby game looks like so much fun, I wish we could've gone.
Congrats to Linsey! It's always fun to get a medal.
How fun for Emma to join the "Lost Tooth Club." I heard that the tooth fairy wasn't very on top of things at your house, though. I told her it must be something about our street because she's always forgetting our house, too. :)
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