(ha ha)Well, since it seems that soccer takes up a majority of our time, I'll start there.
Raegan's team has progressed so much this year. We went to a tournament in Benicia back in September. They only won one game, but had a chance to get to know each other outside of soccer, which was good. Although, I don't think the hotel that we all stayed at appreciated their bonding as well as we did. In October, we traveled down to Sunnyvale for an all U-11 tournament. This one was great because our team finally got to play against other teams that were all the same age. In our local league, we are the youngest team. There were 12 teams in the girl's division for the Sunnyvale tournament. Our team made it to the championship game against the Sunnyvale team and WON!!! It was so exciting! I wish I had a picture to share, but Casey didn't make it to that tournament and I didn't bring a camera. The girls all got championship t-shirts and first place medals.
The next weekend, we had a special visitor to our local soccer park. His name is Julian Valentin and he plays professional soccer with the Los Angeles Galaxy. (Yes, that is the same team that David Beckham plays for!) He was nice enough to come out and talk to our team and even warmed up the girls before the game. We've never seen them so enthusiastic about a warm up before! I'm thinking of buying a Galaxy jersey and finding random young, good-looking guys to come warm up our team.
Last weekend we had another local tournament. There were only 4 teams entered in our age division and they were all other local teams. Again, we were the youngest team. However, our "little team that could" went out and kicked some butt and took second place! It's so cool because the youngest team is never expected to do much their first year and we've already taken a first, second, and third place in tournaments this year.
Let's see...what else have we been up to? Both kids are doing music this year. Riley is playing the piano and the clarinet and Raegan is playing the viola. Both of them are enjoying their instruments, and they both have gotten their mother's musical abilities (wink). Raegan was asked by a group of musicians at her school to join a quartet. The other kids are all in 7th grade, but they couldn't find a viola player, so they asked the music teacher. The teacher said she had a student who was a beginner, but was picking up on it quickly (Raegan), and recommended her. Raegan auditioned for them and they asked her to join. I guess they plan to play at local venues and weddings and stuff. Riley also enjoys performing and has no problem giving on the spot concerts to anyone who will listen. His piano teacher has been giving him Christmas songs to learn and that has inspired him. I told his teacher that we should let him play Christmas songs all year long! I'm also still playing my flute in the local Shasta College Community Band and still loving it.
Casey has been a busy beaver too. Between working, school, and teaching, he doesn't get much free time.
Our third child, the hairy one (Drake), had to have a toe amputated last week. Poor baby! He's doing ok and manages to hobble around quite well. It certainly hasn't slowed him down much. The vets office cracks up whenever he comes in because they can't believe he's 9 years old because he's such a spaz. We love him though. He makes us laugh daily.
Ok, I've babbled on enough for now. As usual, I will try to be better about posting here, but you know the routine...
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