Josiah's turn for a "Daddy trip"

As most of you know, Michael has for a number of years now taken the boys each on a weekend trip away alone wherever they want to go. Generally the rule has been that when as soon as someone writes a report about the destination of their choice, they are good to go. Michael's taken Jonathan to Colorado Springs and Key West, Jeffrey to Horseshoe Canyon Ranch (in
Arkansas) and Miami and Jeremy to Washington, D.C. Fun trips all, to be sure!

Well, finally Josiah's old enough to go! He's thrown around such exciting locations as Lincoln, Nebraska (!)-don't ask why!!- and Atlanta, GA. But all that went by the wayside when his BFFTNAB (Best friend forever that's not a brother....because after all, shouldn't your brothers be your best friends??!!) Jack said that he and his dad wanted to come down from Memphis and take a trip to College Station to watch the Aggies play. This was going to be Josiah's weekend. We never go to see Aggie games! We are TV fans. Michael takes the boys to watch the band practice (with Shipley's donuts in hand, of course) and watch the corp march in and to the Fan Zone where there are lots of games and things to do near Kyle field before the game starts. But we're not ABOUT to pay the insane amount of money it would take to get into the gate. So, they head home and watch on TV or the computer.

Not THIS weekend, though. Michael "paid in" (as Josiah likes to say) and bought four tickets and a parking pass for the big weekend. A&M vs. Utah State....a game they even had a chance to win! Josiah lost sleep for nights in a row out of excitement thinking about the weekend. Josiah is a boy who LOVES football, and who loves Jack even more. He was so cute. He would just get a smile on his face thinking about it. The countdown started something like 15 days ahead. But then about 10 days before THE weekend, we got a bad phone call, Jack's dad had to have emergency surgery and may not be able to be well in time. Lemme tell ya, prayers went up early and often for Jack's dad. And still in the end, he wasn't able to make the trip. I was bracing myself for tears, tears and more tears. But dear Josiah didn't cry even once. Sure he was disappointed! No doubt about it, but he took it like a champ. Michael gave him the choice to skip the weekend and do something else, but he decided that he wanted to go ahead and make the trip.

So, last Friday afternoon, Michael and Josiah headed over to B/CS. Friday evening, they saw Allen Academy (a local private school) play 6-man football and then headed over to watch the Rudder Rangers (the NEW high school in Bryan) play a game. It was an evening full of football! That evening, Josiah called me with the funniest question. They were at the Rudder game watching the half time show. He called and said (with awe in his voice)"Mom, YOU were one of the girls who twirled the flags??!! " When I said I was he said "Wow, how long did you have to practice?" I told him we practiced a couple of hours ever day after school (I know dad, NOT as long as the football team....I get it, I get it! :-)) Well, he was just in awe. Michael said Josiah enjoyed the football game, but was awed by the flags!

So after the Friday evening full of football, they got up early on Saturday morning, got Shipley's and went to watch the band practice.
Isn't he cute!! Notice the Dallas Cowboy's football...he rarely leaves home without it! This is one ball-loving boy!

After the band, they went back to mom and dad's, ate some hot wings at Wings And More, and Michael TRIED to get Josiah to rest. It had been a late night on Friday and with a 6:30 start time on the Aggie game, it promised to be another late night. But Josiah was just TOO excited.

They headed to the Fan Zone and played around....

Lots of junk, I mean treasures, to be purchased! Thankfully, Josiah came home with NONE of it!

They headed off to the game and had a wonderful time. Josiah got really tired by half time, but Michael made him stay. I think they made it to the 4th quarter. I'm STILL hearing about great plays and all the fun they had. I know he loved having daddy to himself all weekend long!! On Sunday, I took the other boys up to New Braunfels and Michael and Josiah met us for the last day of the season at Schlitterbahn. It was a great weekend!