When Things Come Full Circle

So yesterday my dad and brother drove to Houston, and karlee and I used alan’s seats and took them to the Texans game….which was a really good game and they won with 3 of their starters out and a 3^rd string quarter back first NFL game ever. However, it warmed my heart to be able to give to my dad in such a profound way, a gift that has become so ordinary to anyone else. A man who’s life has been  football, and was recruited way back when by the seattle seahawks himself. He married my mother and had to live off campus so was no longer on the meal ticket at school. They couldn’t afford to feed  dad what he needed to stay at that weight the recruiter said he must still weigh by next year when he came back for him…..so when the seahawks came back for him the following year, he didn’t weigh enough. He told me this story over thanksgiving……we had always believed my father had walked away from it, when in fact it was the other way around. He had never brought it up in my life, and never lived a day out of resentment of it either. So I am sharing this because sometimes life moves you to humility and beyond a gratitude  that you can even fully understand in this world. I am sure you guys know how much I adore my father and all the sacrifices he has made not only for my mother, but our family.

Yesterday was his first NFL game ever! Alan’s seats are club level which are really nice and the bathrooms have tenants and all that smelly good stuff, they had a jazz band performing during warm ups you could sit from couches and listen to……and with all that luxury (that I have grown immune to) and my 8^th nfl game experience in my 4^th location in this country. My dad had spent the whole day with a smile on his face at everything he saw….even the coffee bar. As we sat down and right before they sang the opening song……….my dad leaned over and told me “tell alan thanks for making a old man feel like a kid again” ……..and after the star spangled banner he took his hat off and waved it around his head like a true redneck from Alabama, and there was no other place is in this world I would have rather been. It was truly a day I will never forget, watching 50 something year old man go back in time as if it was him on that field……..and my heart will forever be changed by the memory. I just wanted to share.

I mean with Christmas coming and life flying by with each passing year, that’s what it is about

Also here is my iphone dump of photos....