Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Thanksgiving Weekend

November 27-29, 2014

The Sokol Family came to visit us for the Thanksgiving weekend, giving us the chance to meet our newest cousin, Matthew. The girls stayed with us. We spent Thanksgiving morning with Jac and the kids at Sunset Park, while Jeff went to find deals with the Tatums. We took bread to feed the ducks. Anna and Juliet found this terrifying.


We met up with Jeff and the Tatums and headed over to the faux wood playground. Everyone loved the giant swings.



Then we found a "tighrope" and most us us gave walking across a try.  Only Jeff made it all the way across.




While we played, Dave slaved over a hot turkey fryer, preparing our oddly timed, mid-afternoon dinner. Everyone brought tons of food.  We had been worried about having enough. Silly!


We had 25 people here!




After dinner, we went Black Friday shopping.  Lex hit Walmart with me, then Cam joined me for a Target run.


Lex wasn't feeling well and spent pretty much the rest of the weekend in my bed, making weird whimpering noises.  She was so sick, she didn't argue when I did all her laundry and cleaned out her drawers and closet. It made me so happy for that short time it was clean.


With Lex in bed, missing her tournament games, we were free to go to the adult only dinner at Komex.  It is a Korean-Mexican fusion restaurant and we even tried a frankurito - a burrito filled with hot dogs. The rest of the food was delicious.


By Saturday, Lex was finally well enough to play.  They won their morning game, but lost the evening game.  


It was a long, busy weekend.  I loved spending it with family.

Monday, December 22, 2014

Dark Knights

Fall 2014

Fall baseball has always had games on Tuesday nights. Now that Seth is in Scouts, we decided he needed to try another sport so he wouldn't miss out.  Lex talked him into soccer.  His team was called The Dark Knights. Lex went to a lot of his games, and was very frustrated watching.  She tried to give him pointers.


The coaches were nice guys, but with pretty limited understanding of soccer.  Anytime our team got the ball, they would scream, "Shoot, Shoot!"


Seth was pretty good for being so new to the game.  He was a very aggressive, defensive player and was one of the top scorers.


The Dark Knights



Seth probably would need to work on conditioning to keep playing soccer. He was often out of breath and always left tired from playing his hardest.  He liked soccer, but Seth till thinks that baseball is better.

Varsity Soccer

Fall 2014

Lex played left wing on the Varisty Soccer team again this year.  With our earlier school times, we were able to see all of her games.  Ryan's family usually caught the 2nd half and Jo and Jude came to watch too.




The goalie had to sit out one game and Lex played goalie for a while.  She had one good save but then got scored on once.


The team had shirts made to honor a teacher at their school who had died of cancer.


The team had an awesome season, only losing 1 game and they made it to the playoffs and won their first game but lost the second.  Lex played at her best both nights.


They had a Soccer banquet this year to honor the team and the seniors who are moving on.




2014 Silverado HS Women's Soccer Team


Lex