High School Soccer Done!

Vincent had a great season with his High School soccer team. He started playing on the Junior Varsity team and loved it. He got lots of playing time and they won a lot of games.  All of the boys on the team are great. It was a lot of fun to watch them play.

Toward the end of the season he was asked if he wanted to join the Varsity team. He decided to finish playing with the JV team and also move up to Varsity. He was able to play half a game with JV that way he stayed eligible for Varsity. The Varsity team was doing really well and that was great, but it meant a lot of time for Vincent on the bench. Oh Well....it is fun to be on a winning team, and play with the big boys.

SHS JV Team

They had a fun time playing with the SHS Alumni. 

This is a fun shot of the boys when they knew they had won Kingco and beat Mercer Island!

Vincent making a goal and the Goalie is very upset. Poor guy! 

Dad and Andrew trying to stay warm at a very wet game.  We had a few of those for sure. 

 SHS Varsity won Kingco Conference!  Very exciting for the boys. Yeah!

Off to a quarter final game in Camas Washington. It is right next to Vancouver WA. About a 3 hour drive. The boys left early on Friday and spent the night in town so they would be ready for the big game. I drove a group of boys down and then Gary came down later after work. 

They have a really nice stadium for the High School. 

  

I had never heard of Camas before. But it is a very small town with really good sports teams. And the whole town shows up for the game. I don't think there is a whole lot to do there. :-) 

The boys ready to go. 

It is hard to watch on the side lines when you know you have no chance of playing. 

SHS gave it a good try. But they could not get a goal in the net. It was a very physical and fast paced game. They ended up losing the game. It was very hard on the boys. I felt so bad for them. They really tried hard and work so hard to get here. 

But I am proud of them. They won Kingco and will be there again to beat them next year. :-) 

They ended up wining the State Championship this year. 

My Birthday Trip!

This year for my birthday I was invited to attend a scrap-booking retreat. 

I usually only go once a year in February. There is a group of women that go 4 times a year. If they have a cancelation they open it up for others to join. I was lucky to be invited and it worked out that the timing was right for me to go. My Awesome Husband gave me a great present of being able to attend this trip again. My boys also let me leave them again. Hard to do, but it was so much fun. I even got a little exercise in while I was there this time. Thanks Jen and Julie for pushing me up that huge hill!  I thought I was going to die.

First stop is getting to the Ferry Boat to take you to Whidbey Island. It just happens to have and Ivars next to the boat launch. It is so great to grab a quick fish and chips to go and enjoy it on the short Ferry ride in the car! Yum!

A crazy neighbor has these signs on her fence. She is in a dispute with another neighbor. I liked this one "You Cant Fix Stupid"!

The group shot - not the best photo- but I did not take it. I think there is a better one out there somewhere. 

 My group had a Theme as Joni's Subs after her families Subway shop that she grew up in. Of course our meal was the best! 

One of the groups had the Royal Wedding as a theme for dinner. They dressed up as part of the royal family. 

One of our Moon Light Ladies (MLL) is currently going thru chemo treatments for cancer. She has been having friends that come and sit with her during treatments make pieces of a quilt. So while I was there we all made some pieces and started to put them together for her. It will be her survivors quilt when it is all done. We are happy to hear that her last scan came out clear!  The prayers for her have been working! We love you Deb! 

That darn board struck again!

Vincent so loves his longboard that he wanted to share his love with his little brother.  Well the love was not enough to keep his little brother safe. Andrew also fell off the board and got pretty scraped up.

Poor Andrew, he was doing ok until he saw the blood getting worse not he arm, then it really set him off when he saw that his side had gotten scraped up also. All of a sudden he got really pale and his face started to bead up with sweat and he said " I think I need to sit down".  We quickly got him sitting down, then got him bandaged up quickly.  He felt much better when he could lay down with a cold cloth to his head. What a cute boy.

He is usually much more cautious than his older brother. But every once in a while Vincent rubs off on him.

The Royal Wedding

What kind of person gets up at 2am to watch a wedding on TV? 

A wedding for people you have never met, and likely will never meet in the future.   

Me!  

Call me crazy, but I was so excited to watch the Royal Wedding on TV. I would have loved to have gone to see it in person. But it was not good timing. Gary had just gotten back from a trip to England a few weeks before the wedding. Andrew and Gary went to see his parents.

While Gary was in England I had him search out for Wedding memorabilia.  He said he could not find too much. I think it was still a little early for all of the stuff to hit the stores, or they were sold out. Denise helped Gary find some fun stuff. Some banners to hang up, flags with Will and Kate on it. I asked Gary to find me an english hat to wear. But he came home with a hat that looks like a mini flag/umbrella. Very fun, but not quite what I was looking for.  I am sure I will use it one of these days.
He did find a very nice crystal glass that was made for the wedding. So nice...I have it on display next to my wedding photos of my ancestors.

I took these photos of my self dressed up in my best bathrobe for the big event. Silly I know, but it was fun. I loved the Wedding dress and all of the fancy hats. Seeing all the people arrive for the wedding. The Abbey looked great with the trees inside. Ok I really loved everything about this wedding. I could go on and on, but then I would sound even crazier that I look right now. I still have it saved on my DVR. Not sure when I will have time to watch it again. But I would love to curl up some time on the couch and see everything over again. Maybe one day...that is if Gary does not delete it.

I remember staying up to watch Princess Diana and Prince Charles get married. I had been babysitting and they got home really late. I was able to watch the beginning of it while at the house waiting for them to come home. It was Awesome also. I told my mom about this and she said she remembers watching the wedding when Queen Elizabeth got married. That is so cool!  I guess it runs in the family! And I also think that every girl thinks about being a princess in a royal wedding. The ultimate wedding fantasy! So I am glad that they had such great coverage of the event for all of us romantics to watch. 

Ok Enough is Enough I know. Gary has stopped reading this blog along time ago. Sorry Babe!