Country, country, country - music that is

We had a wonderful weekend, how about you?
Alan and I went out on Sunday night. We had a great dinner at Maggiano's restaurant and then went to Universal City Walk to the Gibson Amphitheater to see a Brooks & Dunn concert.

It was an amazing concert, the first non Jonas Brothers concert I have been to. Prior to my three Jonas Brothers concerts in 2008 I hadn't been to a concert since Neil Diamond pre-Lauren. Now that was a long time ago.

Here's a great shot of the guys......they sounded perfect live. I will say they're getting a tad old but boy can they sing.

REBA WAS THERE. What a shock that was. She sings a verse on their song "Cowgirls Don't Cry" and she was there to do it live. She was great, but I wish she would have come out at the end to sing a song. Guess we'll have to buy tickets to her concert some day.
Here's the goofy "I'm taking my own picture" shot. But what else is there to do when it's just the two of us. Look how happy we are, and this was before the concert started. Just imagine what we looked like afterwards. It was so late by the time we got home that we felt bad for Ruth and Ernie since they stayed with the kids. Suprisingly they were awake when we got home, I thought for sure they'd be out. I recorded some of the songs on my phone and Lauren has been having fun listening to them. She likes country music, it's hard not to when you grow up listening to it, though she won't admit it to any of her friends. She was mad when I bought the tickets for Alan for Christmas, since she wasn't going with us. She also didn't like it when I commented about it everytime one of their songs came on the radio......gee I wonder why.

You know I can't have a blog entry without soccer. Without further ado, here is the soccer blurb...

High school season has come and gone but never fear, tournament season is here. There was a soccer banquet for the high school teams and Lauren got an award for most improved player on her frosh team. Well yeah, of course she's most improved. When you're the goalie and you get shot on 20+++++ times per game of course you're going to get better. :-) This picture has all three of the teams in it (a few people were missing but most are there). The second from the right in the back row is Mariam, Lauren's coach, and Lauren is laying in front (what a silly girl she is)

Anywho, that's all for now.

Night all, Kim

Yeah-We WON......

Hello all, happy valentine's day.

Here is Lauren's school soccer team after their first win at the last game on Thursday. What an exciting last game they had. The parents went nuts after they scored and I must say that the other teams spectators looked at us a bit funny, it was only a goal after all. We had to explain that not only had we not won a game all season (we tied two though), we had only had 2 goals the entire season so this was huge for us. They held onto the one goal lead for the entire second half and won their first game, it happened to be the last game of the season too. Way to go Lauren!!!!!!!! (Lauren is on the left of Sarah who is in the red jacket)

We had the memorial service for Aunt Honey last weekend, though it was sad it was a day to celebrate the amazingly wonderful life she had. What an amazing woman she was.Here's an old picture of her in a tree, imagine that....

Here she is getting the Florence Nightingale award in Nicaragua.

We had three cousins come in from out of town, Jimmy on the left is from Colorado, he had been out before so it was great to see him again. Ryan is holding little Owen (Erin's son).

Here are the girls, Meghann in green and Erin on the right end. We had never met them before and feel very blessed to have them in our lives now. It was wonderful to spend time getting to know each other. The girls both live in Washington state.

Of course the kids had a great time with baby Owen, who latched onto Ryan big time. They had a great time playing at Grandma and Grandpas house.

That's all for now. Hope everyone is well.

Hugs to all, Kim

Soccer, soccer, soccer...............

Lauren is my soccer star...........................
She has played in AYSO soccer for 10 years, she was asked to play on an AYSO Tournament team this year which will start in a couple of weeks and run through June plus she made it onto her high school Freshman/Sophmore soccer team. Not bad for a 9th grader.

The high school season is coming to a close, next week Thursday is the last game. Ryan and I have been at every game, rain or shine. Yes they do play in the rain, I think the only thing that will stop the game is lightning. The weather man calls for rain tomorrow so we might be huddled under the umbrella once more to watch and take pictures.

I am VERY proud of Lauren, though her team has not won a game but we finally tied at yesterdays game, Lauren has gotten better with each game. She plays goalie and has only been taken out of one game for about 10 minutes, other than that she has played full time in goal. She can't help but get better when she gets shot on 10-20 times or more per game.

Here are some pictures of her games. In this first picture (the goalie is in the blue shirt) she is diving to save a goal and she was successful (in the rain no less)

Walking up to meet us after the game. Ryan went running up to meet her!!

Practice before a game. The girls take lots of shots on goal for her to practice. This is one of MANY for practice.

This was at yesterdays game, she is the one wearing the yellow scrim shirt (it was too hot for the long sleeve blue goalie shirt). You can see the ball in the air and she is starting to jump to block it from a corner kick, with her knee up the way Alan taught her to protect herself from a player trying to get in her way. She had 3 or 4 corner kicks in a row here and saved everyone of them.

Here she is with one of the defenders, Rachel.

Hugs to all,

Kim