Kiwanis Cup

I think football is going to send me to an early grave. Last night was the last game of the regular season and what made it all the more exciting is that it was against Mt Carmel. For those who may not recognize the significance of that, the community where we live has two high schools. The older high school is called Mt Carmel and it was the only high school here when Kira, Brandon and Ben went to high school. That means that those three graduated from Mt Carmel so Lisa and I have several Mt Carmel shirts and we have some allegiance to the school. About the time Alycia was going to head off to high school they had built a new high school called Westview High School. The two schools are about two miles apart and we actually lived in the Westview school boundaries but because she had a sibling going to Mt Carmel Alycia could have gone to either school. If Ben had not been a senior she would have gone to Mt Carmel but since all her friends were going to Westview and she would only have the one year with Ben she chose to go to Westview. That year we had Sarah in Sundance Elementary school, Alex in Mesa Verde Middle School, Alycia in Westview High School, Ben in Mt Carmel High School, Brandon at BYU and Kira and the University of Florida. Maybe Brandon was actually on his mission, I'm not so sure now. It's late.

So as you can imagine, there is significant rivalry between the two High Schools and the local Kiwanis club has a trophy for the school that wins the football game between the two schools. Back when Ben played for Mt Carmel the cup was for the winner between Poway and Mt Carmel but now it is Westview and Mt Carmel. Ben won it his senior year and Alex actually won it last year and as you can guess from the picture, Alex won it his senior year but the score was 21 - 20. What a nail biter. The game wasn't as close as the score suggests because we really did dominate them but we would occasionally mess up and Mt Carmel would get a touchdown out of it. My heart rate was much too high during the last few minutes of the game. We had some added excitement during the game as well. Take a look at the video clip.

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Yes, that is a couple of streakers. I would have video taped them out on the field jumping around trying to swing from the goal posts but I was in a state of shock and it took me a minute to remember I had a video camera in my hand. There was actually a third kid but he chickened out and stayed behind the stands. We had one very fast security guard and when these kids headed out of the field this guard was right behind them and they actually caught them. They will be expelled from school and have to finish up their year at Abraxis High School which is the school for all the trouble makers. It was a very exciting night.

Today I put drywall up in my garage. I was working too hard to take a picture, sorry. Now I have to mud it and then paint. I have no idea why they wouldn't just finish the garage when they built the house. Oh well. It looks nice.