Pine Creek HS Football Game

Friday night was an absolute blast. One of the senior football players at the local high school (the one our kids will attend when they are older) wanted to do a service project to add to his college application. He called the oncology clinic and told them he wanted to have one of the cancer kids be a part of one of their football games. The clinic thought of Carter... because he's so darn cute, I'm sure. ;)

Before the game there was a dinner for all the football players that Bryan took Carter to. The boys gave him a jersey and he got to spend the meal chatting with them. He also got to meet the very beautiful team managers. (His words... not mine. :))

The game we went to was Senior Night so they made Carter an "Honorary Senior". We got to walk onto the field with balloons while they announced "Number 45, Carter Wyeth". The announcer then announced that he was fighting cancer and that Pine Creek HS had his back. The crown cheered and Carter felt like a super star. There were strangers taking pictures of him. It was kind of funny. It was probably the Yoda hat. :)

The team also gave Carter a signed football. It may as well be signed by the Cardinals. He absolutely LOVES it.
When it was time for the coin toss one of the senior boys came and asked Carter if he wanted to come onto the field and do the coin toss with them. (Guess what Carter's response was?) This cute senior took Carter's hand and took him onto the field for the toss, held his hand while he was out there, and then gave him a fist bump before they all came trotting back. There's a better picture of it on the high school's website this week. You can see it here. Throughout the game, the players kept coming up to Carter and telling him that they were playing the game for him, that they were going to win it for him, that he was their good luck charm. It made him feel so special!!

The team managers all wanted their pictures taken with Carter. They took Carter around with them while the guys were out playing. He gave the players water and went onto the field when he was allowed to with the girls. (He'll LOVE this picture in a few years.)
This is Cub Olsen. He's the senior that put all this together. It was a dream come true for Carter and I could just kiss this sweet kid for doing it. He will never know how much it meant to Carter and long after Cub has forgotten all about that night, Carter will still be telling his own kids about it. Cub kept coming up to Carter through out the game to make sure he was having fun.(Heading onto the field between quarters to give the players water.)
At 1/2 time all the cheerleaders headed over to meet the kids. They thought they were totally adorable (duh) and wanted to take pictures with them and give them hugs. Addilyn thought they were so beautiful too. :) That colorful hat in the middle of that picture is Addilyn... being smothered by all the cheerleaders.
Carter with all the cheerleaders.
There is a darling boy in our ward that plays for PCHS as well. I seriously adore this kid. I don't know him that well but I'd be a liar if I said I hadn't done the math to see if he's too old for Addilyn... I think he is. :( That's him on the right with Cub. My kids thought they were suppose to kneel down as well. Goofs. :)One of the cheerleaders taught Addilyn (we use the term loosely) a cheer and said whenever she was ready for me to bring her over and they would do the cheer for the crowd. Of course we headed over as soon as 1/2 time was over. They gave her pompoms to use and she did the entire cheer with them... which turned into the entire second half of the game. She shook her booty and her pom poms until the game was over. She also took off her jacket despite the chilly weather because she wanted everyone to see her Pine Creek shirt the team had given her (they game us all shirts).
They even did a lift with her. Addilyn has since declared, "Mom, I want to be a pom pom girl when I grown up!" (Sorry, Uncle Bradley...)

She became particularly attached to this cheerleader, Sarah. She even asked me Saturday morning if we could call her. :)After the game the cheer coach gave Addilyn some roses for being such a good cheerleader.

Here are the souvenirs from the night. he also got a water bottle from the team managers.

The night could not have been more fun for all of us and more magical for my kids. They had so so SO much fun and I'm so glad that Cub put all this together for our cute little fighter. Major blessings in heaven for that kid!!