Oh, the places we will go

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

spring soccer has started!!!

Here are a couple of pictures from his first games of the season. They played 2 games against teams from Savannah. As usual, they played older teams - U10 girls and U9 boys - and did really well. They lost the 1st game (against the girls) 0 - 2 and the 2nd game (against the boys) 1-2. That might not sounds so great but they lost their first games in the fall 0 - 12!

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Carson played goalie for a game and a half and stopped a lot of shots. He just "knows" how to dive into a crowd of players and not get stepped on, how to close off the opponents shots on goal, and to use his whole body to stop the ball -- he must have been born with some kind of goalie gene (on his dad's side, of course).

Thursday, February 4, 2010

snowy wedding

Jeff's cousin - Van - married a beautiful girl - Nicole - at the end of January. Our plans were to head up on Friday so we could go to the rehearsal dinner and then to the wedding on Saturday morning. But that all changed with the SNOW that was forecasted for the weekend. So...the rehearsal turned into the wedding and the rehearsal dinner turned into the reception.

While others were changing their travel plans and cancelling hotel reservations...Jeff firmly said we were going no matter what the weather was going to be. We had not seen his cousin since our wedding (many, many years ago) or his aunts and uncles since the kids were little.

So, we picked the kids up from school (a little earlier than originally planned) and hit the road. We got to the hotel in Wilson, NC in time to visit with family and get ready for the wedding. It was a beautiful wedding and a lovely reception!

It started snowing while we were at the reception and we woke up to a couple of inches on the ground. It was a "white-knuckle" drive for the first couple of hours but, with Jeff at the helm, we had no problems whatsoever on the snow covered roads. And it only took us about 45 extra minutes on the return trip.

We had a whirl-wind of a great time but wish there had been more time to visit with family.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Cataloochee

We went skiing in NC over the weekend...and I think it had been almost 20 years since I skied there last. We decided to go because of all the recent cold weather and were pleasantly surprised by the conditions (snow not slush or ice). It was REALLY cold (7 degrees when we got there) but there weren't too many complaints about the temperature once we got all of our layers on. And I am happy to say that the kids didn't forget what they learned out in Park City. With a few reminders, they were making lots of nice turns, controlling their speed and stopping beautifully. We all had a great time. And are looking forward to going again sometime soon!