such a bummer

so, jake played the best game of his football life on friday against woods cross.  i can't count the number of people who told me how well he did.  such a great game and a great win.  when we were watching his amazing performance, we didn't know that it would be the last time we watched jake play football. 

now he looks like this:

we took jake to an orthopedic sports specialist today and he was diagnosed with a fracture on the proximal edge of his foot.  this is where he got kicked during the indoor soccer activity after the dance on saturday night.  a whole piece of his bone broke off.  right now the piece is close and may just heal on its own.  if it doesn't, he will have to have the bone surgically pinned back together. 

we may only have a few games left, but it's still hard to be so abruptly done with football.  all that's left for jake is the family turkey bowls and throwing around the pigskin with friends.  in his wisdom, jake said to me today, "everything happens for a reason.  i'm just waiting to see what the reason is for this."  such a good boy!