Wrong.......she picked out the peace sign and Ryan picked the soccer ball. Now every year they can get me new charms, I'm sure within no time the necklace will weight about 50 pounds :-)
Here is Shelby in the blue scrim shirt, she was playing goalie for Lauren's Fusion team when they played each other and she rolled the ball out and ran with it all the way to the opposite goal while Lauren jumped into their goal to cover. Can you see that huge grin on her face? She has such a blast and almost made a goal. The game amongst themselves ended in a 2-2 tie, went into a 3 minute sudden death overtime and then in a 3 on 3 shoot out. After all that Fusion won by one point after the shoot out. The referee was having fun watching them play each other and couldn't believe we went to a shoot out.
Here is Lauren covering the goal when Shelby took off with the ball. She ended up jamming her finger in the first game so badly that she didn't play goalie for the remaining games. I even took her to the urgent care on Sunday because it was ver swollen and black & blue. Luckily no fractures just a really bad bruise. It's her left hand so it doesn't effect her writting but does hinder her a bit in doing the dishes, poor child.
In between games we all hung out under the easy ups. The girls all had swim suits on so lots of them worked on their tans.
Night,
Here is my lovely family. The kids got to ride (well sit on and walk around) on a horse a couple of times. The building in the background is a garage for a semi truck and motor home on the right half and one of the stables on the first floor of the left half and the second floor has 4 one bedroom apts and a 4 bedroom apt. We stayed in the 4 bedroom one on the far left end with a great balcony. Alan sat on the balcony and did lots of reading.
This is my dad...
Roman taught Ryan to drive the tractor and a Kobuto (which is some other type of little farm truck). Ryan loved it to say the least.
This is the apartment we stayed in looking into the living room from our bedroom. On the left side are three more bedrooms. This place is bigger than my house and it's an apt.
We hung out at the farm and visited the horses a bunch, there are lots there. The kids rode, got to know their Opa. We took a tour at the Jack Daniels Distillery, saw a show at the Grand Ole Opry which was amazing. The kids and me all got cowboy boots too.
and our three coaches had fun too. The beer was a flowing.....
Now onto Ryan. He has been busy with his first year in Cub Scouts. Here is a picture of him at the Irwindale Speedway for a Nascar evening. The boys had a great time. Lauren and I thought it was a bit cold and very loud, but still fun.
Here is Ryan as the Sun in his 3rd grade play. He sang beautifully and had some great moves to boot
Lastly, this is a picture of him getting his bobcat badge in his scout den. He has since earned his bear badge but that has not been presented yet. I think they only do the big "paint your face" ceremony for the bobcat badge so the rest should be a bit cleaner.
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.
Anywho, that's all for now.
Night all, Kim
