first game of the season

Last night started weekly road trips and the last year of basketball games at sterling, for Erin. It is a bit bittersweet to think this is the last year we will drive up there. We enjoy watching them play so much. They looked great last night...pretty much like another conference winning, national tournament attending team :). It all went off quite well despite a blow to the nose which GUSHED for about 3o minutes. It continued to bleed after that but just not gushing. Oh and yes, that would be injury #1 for Erin this year and we know it will be the last! She always has to be the center of attention :) ha ha. She has a nice swollen and bruised nose to show for it. They do not think it is broken.

Liam's first basketball game went very well. He was very entertained watching the girls run up and down the court. All the attention he got from all the girls afterward probably didn't hurt any either :). After he got used to the buzzer, he wasn't quite as jumpy. He really enjoyed the game, but Jeremy and I didn't enjoy the night that was to follow. He slept horrible, waking up twice and not falling asleep well. So he might not be going to all the games we go to, but I'm sure we won't have a problem finding a babysitter :). Oh...and we would not have gotten as late as we did, but Liam had a HUGE blowout that required a new diaper (which we didn't pack...stupid, I know), which was hard to find in Sterling, since everything closes by 8. I got to practice how to put on a cloth diaper. Thank goodness that was only on for about 30 minutes before dad and Jeremy came back with diapers from a gas station, because I'm pretty sure that cloth contraption would not have held anything.