The Sporting Cousins

Sorry for not posting for a while, but the start of college football season for me leaves little time for sleep, let along blogging. I wanted to post some pictures of the cousins and their sports pursuits lately. While we are still in soccer, Brendan and Dad have been sneaking off to the golf range some and with fall beginning to arrive, Jonathan is deep into football. While Brendan will have to double in size before we let him on a football field (thus the whole golf thing), Jonathan looks like a natural and someday may be wearing that red for Nebraska, although baseball still seems to be his sport and where his natural athletic abilities lie, especially after hitting homer after homer against me with the wiffle ball over the house last year at Hilton Head (sad part was, I wasn't trying to take it easy on him). Anyways here are some pictures of the boys, hope the grandparents enjoy and glad to hear our friends from Indiana and North Carolina have been checking out. Will do a whole football summary tomorrow, although it is killing me that even I am starting to feel like ripping Notre Dame is piling on at this point

After seeing Nebraska's score against Ball State today, Jonathan may be getting a call from Callahan soon to see if he can start at safety. I mean, he already has the uniform ready to go and this proves he can make an interception which is probably one more than Nebraska has this year.

While the whole split hand grip thing is an interesting development and not something usually recommended, he does keep his head down much better than Dad. And also much better balance. Probably best he does it his way, rather than watching Dad which could really screw up his golf swing. Once again our hope and wish is that he gets bigger and more into golf so Dad finally has some reason to convince Mom to let him join the golf course. If Brendan ever wants to see the family car, he will play golf, but we'll leave those threats for later. Luckily, by living in the South, we will be able to send more golf pictures through December, although the bermuda will be a little brown by then which usually, finally brings out John's golf game (inside Nashville humor). As an overall update, Brendan is loving preschool, (Mom and Dad bore the heck out of him), he has been in a great mood ever since school started, although much more of a smart ass talk backer which repeated tickling sessions and tackles into the couch haven't cured. He seems to have taken the sarcasm and general enjoyment of irritating his parents to a new level. The whole turn off football, turn on Sprout and then running around the house with the clickie to keep it from Dad, has gotten especially annoying. I'll remember this next time he wants to go to a game. That's it for now, look for a football post soon.