Football Has Finally Returned

Ches anxiously awaits the beginning of each new season of football. This year, not only was he interested to see the style of play from the new coaches at University of Florida, he was eager to introduce his daughters to his world of football. From the college to professional to sometimes even arena, his passion for football runs deep. I am honestly surprised he did not already sign them up for fantasy football (I know as soon as he reads that, he is going to think of how good of an idea that would have been).

We had a very busy morning on the day of the Gator season opener. As to be explained further in a later post, we all packed up in the car to catch the 5:20 AM ferry - it is truly impressive how we managed to get everyone ready and in the car on time - to wish Robyn farewell at the airport. The girls were completely off schedule. After the goodbye, we dropped our car off at the dealer for an oil change, had to find a place to feed Alina & Avery, and then were planning on shopping around, and possibly doing, professional photographs of the girls before picking up our car again. Our Subaru place has a great, free loaner car program.

After attempting and failing to feed the twins, we received the call telling us about the severity of our car problems. We spent some time calling around and going over options. Luckily, we were already closer to home than the dealership (hour away from our apartment), since we would be keeping our loaner car for a whole week! It was getting late and we wanted to make sure we would be home in time for the game.

We got prepped & pumped for the game (see video below). Avery was in the swing digging the movement on the screen and Chesley was holding Alina on his lap. As Ches posted on facebook, "Exactly one play into the Gators' football season and I had the girls crying. Thanks Demps.... Guess I need to adjust my TV yelling." Let me explain...

The first play of the game was Demps returning the kickoff. Ches was so excited that by the time Demps was on the fifty yard line, he was standing with Alina held in front of him, bouncing her up and down screaming very loudly. Alina was not very happy about this celebration. As a token of her sympathy, Avery chimed in on the crying. So there were two wailing babies, an angry mommy, and a very apologetic daddy.

Our friend, Curt, said that the girls must have been unhappy about the holding call that overturned the touchdown. Regardless, it was definitely a memorable event!