Oklahoma is football country. I'm sure other parts of the country are too, but in Oklahoma it's particularly strong. We do have a certain college football team that annually sends the state into an uproar, so maybe that is the reason, but that's how things go in Okie-land. Josh's hometown is no exception, and maybe has a stronger football heritage than most small towns. When Josh was in high school, he played football with a certain OU Sooner who went on to win the Heisman trophy, so there's some serious hometown pride when it comes to football.
Nick, the oldest of Josh's adopted brothers, is in 7th grade and this year was eligible to play football for the 7th grade team. They don't actually play on Friday nights, like the title of my post indicated, but that's besides the point.
One Thursday evening - the last football game of their season - we all loaded up into the car to make the one-mile drive down to the town's football field to watch Nick's game. Let's just say, Fall + Football = a really good time. Even if it is 7th grade football.
Nick is #40 - you can't see him in this picture, but he's in there! =)
These two girls took in all the action - everything was interesting to them.
PawPaw Al comes to almost all the games, I think. Even all the ones that dont' have family members playing. Maybe in a small town, everyone is family.
Cheerleaders captured Emma's attention for most of the night:
And she LOVED it when they threw plastic footballs into the crowd! She caught one too! (but then Dallas, being ever so considerate, realized that Samantha didn't have one, so he went up to the cheerleaders and asked for another one!)
We had a great time going to Nick's football game, and it was even better because they won! I totally remember junior high days and all the drama that goes along with football games and passing notes and guys that you have crushes on and being somewhere without your parents...nostalgia, that's for sure.
These two girls took in all the action - everything was interesting to them. 
PawPaw Al comes to almost all the games, I think. Even all the ones that dont' have family members playing. Maybe in a small town, everyone is family. 
Cheerleaders captured Emma's attention for most of the night:And she LOVED it when they threw plastic footballs into the crowd! She caught one too! (but then Dallas, being ever so considerate, realized that Samantha didn't have one, so he went up to the cheerleaders and asked for another one!)We had a great time going to Nick's football game, and it was even better because they won! I totally remember junior high days and all the drama that goes along with football games and passing notes and guys that you have crushes on and being somewhere without your parents...nostalgia, that's for sure. The next day, Dallas had asked his teacher if Josh could come to his class at talk about life in Asia. In fact, our whole family went and had a great time. The girls got to see an American school (quite different from those in our part of the world!) and they thought it was really interesting that all the students were so curious about our life. They asked thoughtful and intelligent questions, and were truly interested in our life.
My linguist husband also taught them some Asianese and gave out local money as prizes for the best speakers...!
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