Let It Be Christmas Everywhere

Well, finals are done, I'm back at home, and Christmas is just around the corner! I've been spending my days at the bank as "Teller #3" and enoying my 'working vacation'. (It'll be nice to replenish the checking account after the Fall Semester took a toll on it.) I enjoy seeing old faces*, listening to the radio play the same Christmas songs over and over, doing something over break instead of sleeping it away, and of course, having an income again. I am excited for this upcomming Christmas as well! I was thinking about all the traditions I have with family, friends and at church over the last 18 Christmases, and it is hard to believe that time is upon us again.
They're calling for about 6 inches of snow tomorrow (Christmas Eve) so that will be great, not so much for travelers, but for people like us who will stay home all day (and hunters, like myself). A short post this time, but hey, it's Christmas. Can't spend all my time on the computer..
Remember the reason for the season.


*Old Faces - 1. People I have not seen in a long time. 2. The elderly.

We are the champions, my friend.

This year, like last, a group of friends went down to Florence, Alabama to watch Northwest play in the NCAA Division II Championship Football game.

Of course, we left a little later than expected, but our destination on Friday night was Jackson, TN. We stayed in the Courtyard Mariott there and got up to drive the final 2.5 hours Saturday morning before the game. It's good to have connections, too. The parents of one of the girls that went with us were employees of hotels, and therefore got us a great discount on this Mariott, which was one of the nicest hotels any of us 'poor college kids' had stayed in.

When we arrived at the stadium about 10:15 the next morning, it was already packed! Tons of people everywhere! We got in line to enter the gates, waited, and finally got in and found our seats.

The first half went very well, with NWMSU scoring 3 touchdowns while holding Grand Valley State to just 3 points. The second half is where it got interesting though. GVSU came back to bring our lead to only 3 points, but the Bearcats managed to pull off a victory (the first in the 5 consecutive years they have made it to the championship game).

We held 3 signs in our group: "Shake and Bake with Blake and Jake" was the crowd favorite (referring to Blake Bolles, the QB and Jake Soy, the go-to receiver.) My personal favorite, "At least it's not raining!" was another. Tyler held one that simply said "?". We thought that was pretty funny too, just because it was different.

We all had a wonderful time and we were fortunate enough to see the Bearcats' victory this year in person. God protected our vehicles on the way from fender-benders, although we did have a closer than preferred run-in with a city bus. But the brakes on the bus were working and it didn't end up inside either of our vehicles.

Posted is a video of one of two HUGE hits that Northwest had during the game. We could literally feel the pain as we heard the crack in the audience, right before the crowd erupted in cheering!