WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

Many of you may not know that Brittany joined a 25 and older women's flag football team hosted by the recreation league this year. All of the players with exception of 1 were members of The Church, mostly from our ward. One of the counselors in the Bishopric asked Brittany upon our arriving to the ward if she played sports in high school, which we thought was a little odd at the time, but turns out he was the coach of the flag football team. Brittany had an amazing year! She was highly regarded by the QB and her teammates, and made some spectacular plays catching the ball as a receiver, and bouncing back and forth through defenders as a running back. Savannah, Jack and myself loved going to the games to root mommy on. She has been playing every Friday night since January.

We had a good team, but were going through some growing pains so lost several games. At the end of the year the 8 teams are split into an upper and lower bracket. In order to make the upper bracket we had to win our last game, and one of the other teams had to lose. As it happened we did win, and the other team lost, so we ended up as the number 4 seed in the upper bracket- set to play the number 1 team.

Last week we played the number 1 team, and Brittany was on fire. She caught two amazing over the shoulder passes in full stride and booked down field for TDs. It wasn't her highest TD night either (she scored 4 in one night- I know I am bragging, but she was awesome!) It was a close game though and we (the husbands) were nervous wrecks pacing on the sideline. They pulled out the win in a close game, but made the championship game.

Friday night they played the other 7-1 team (we were 5-3) that had beat us previously. We opened up with 4 straight touchdowns to their zilch! They came back and scored 2 TDs, but the game was over! The girls, I guess I should say women, were super excited, laughing and screaming. We went out to celebrate (as we had after all of the wins). We still don't know if the team gets anything, but it was certainly a fun time. Here are some pictures

Jack giving Mom a victory hug!

Brittany playing Cornerback- they were scared to throw her way!

Yes, she caught this ball! Diving in the air.

Here is Brittany and her teammates

Celebrating with teammate after the win

Here is Jack- He loved being around Mommy's football game. He kept me busy on the sideline