U.S. Open Cup Champs!!!

Yeah! 

We won the U.S. Open Cup Again! 

 We won last year as a brand new expansion team.  We won again!  So Awesome! 

We love our Sounders team! 

We had a record amount of people at a US Open cup game 31,311!  We have a great fan base in Seattle. Most teams are very jealous of our crowd!

I love all the great energy from the fans at the game!  We have had a great time attending the games. 

We have a few more Sounders games to go to for the season. We are still in another cup tournament.

Congratulations Sounders!



 Teenager...does not want to be seen too close to me...ha ha...

 Andrew still likes being seen with me! I am living it up while it lasts. :-)



Family Night in the Hot Tub!

I love Monday Night!  We have no plans this night and are able to relax at home with the boys. We had great left overs from Gary's awesome pork dinner. Gary took the boys to the park and practiced some Soccer moves. He is finally feeling well enough to get out with the boys. No kicking yet.

After dinner HOT TUB!  It felt so good. Good idea Gary!  

Underwater camera's are so cool.

I think I will use this as my new facebook profile pic. :-)



Spokane Soccer Game

We went to Spokane this weekend for Vincents soccer game.

We had a great drive. Very pretty and warm. It was nice to get out of the rain. Game day of course it cooled off and we had a light rain. The forecast that morning was suppose to be rain and lightning. We just got sprinkled on. 

 Poor Vincent missed a shot early on. This seemed to be his theme for the game.

They ended up losing 2-4. Bummers. Along way to go to lose.

 A great cross to a team mate that made a goal.

 Our poor Goalie got kneed in the face. Poor guy. Out for the game.

Cool new laces. 

Better luck next time boys!

Spoiled Julie ??? Yes :-)

Please don't hate me.... My husband loves me so. He knows I love to take photos of the kids playing soccer. I did mention the other day that so and so's camera was so fast. And that he could take photos in low light better. So a few days later I had a new camera show up at my door!  I sure do love my Husband! He knows how to make me happy.

So here are some of my first photos with my new Cannon D7. Super cool camera. I read Dummies for Cannon D7 on the way to Spokane for Vincent's soccer game. I was glad I had 4 hours to read.



 The boys were nice enough to help me practice some action shots!

I let Andrew try out the camera. He told me where to sit and everything. 

Smokin Gary!

Mark and Catherine Westra were in town, and sister Janet. And whoops I forgot to take a photo of them. Sorry guys.  They spent the week end at our house. We spent a little time with them. But then we had to go out of town to Spokane for Vincent's soccer game.

I did take a photo of the dinner Gary cooked for us!  He smoked a Pork Shoulder. Let me tell you it was Yummy!  He smoked it for a bout 6 hours!  Oh My was it tasty!  I am so glad Gary is around to cook us a good meal once in a while! 



 You may have seen it already on Facebook as Gary is documenting it right now. We have tons of left overs. Lucky for me, so I don't have to start from scratch for dinner this week. :-)

 The finished product!  Gary stuffed it with tons of Garlic!



Great Dinner Gary!

Thank You!

Sounders coming to an end... :-(

One of the last Sounders Games. We are sitting in the disabled section. We find it is great as we don't have to stand for the whole game. We can all sit and enjoy!  Love it!  Too bad Gary won't be hurt for next years season. I would like to get these seats again. 

It is starting to get cold as you can tell. :-) 

Vincent Homecoming SHS 2010

Mom can you help? Oh O.K.....this is the moment I have waited for. I love to do this kind of thing.

So I made these posters for the boys. Again the Ernst poster skills come in handy. I even have a few pens and paper left over.

 This is stalker mom in the car. I delivered the posters to the boys and then waited in the car...or near by.

 They did not plan on wearing the same coats. But they are on the same soccer team. I think it looks great.

 I forgot to bring my camera with the super zoom. This is the boys waiting for the girls to be brought out to the field to read the posters.

 I did see one of the girls jump up and down. It was a success. They said "Yes".

One of the girls saw me taking photos. She was the friend that led the girls blindfolded to the field. I am now the Creepy Mom. Yikes...Oh well.  I can take it.

Now I just need to help them figure out what to do for dinner...ect.