Las Vegas Mayor's Cup

Our last Tournament of the year (I think!)! This is a different team than the one we played with this past summer. According to AYSO regulations, an AYSO tournament team does NOT do a try-out/elimination-in AYSO EVERYONE plays. So, we took all of the U12 girls that showed up to practice. We weren't too worried, as half of our regular season team wanted to play in the tournament, & we did fairly well in the Winnemucca AYSO Tournament with our regular team.

We took 18 girls, ages 9-11 years old. The tournament was NOT an AYSO sponsored tournament (makes no difference other than the teams we played have been playing together for the past 6 years!) There were teams from Canada, California, Colorado, Idaho, Arizona, even as far as Massachusetts!

The girls played 3 games, 2 on Saturday and one Sunday morning. Sadly, the girls didn't win.

But, we were going to Disneyland!!!

Denny's $$ Shot!

Denny's so proud of this shot. I did NOT crop to suit-he took this photo All by himself! The Important aspects of VP!!

Sarah Palin stops in Elko!

VOTE

Last night, LATE, last night, Sarah Palin made a stop in Elko! She was Great to listen to, and Boy is she skinny!! I guess stumping all over the US and the stress of campaigning/running for VP can be a 'great' weight loss program!

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

Vacation Time!!

Can you GUESS where we went?

We have has a Very BUSY week and a half! We drove south-to Las Vegas for a 2 day soccer tournament (Katy's!) then we headed West--to California!

We had TONS of fun, saw LOTS of characters and rode nearly EVERY ride (willingly and unwillingly)!!

Well, it seems that I've been Tagged! TWICE!!

So, before anyone Else tags me, here you go:
6 TV shows I like to watch: DVR/TIVO is Great!

• CSI-Miami
• CSI-New York
• CSI-Las Vegas
• Survivor
• Amazing Race
• ER

6 Restaurants I like to eat at:

• The Star
• the Indian Restaurant
• Outback
• Red Lobster
• Olive Garden
• Chef Cheng's

6 Things that Happened today:

• I got up in time to make breakfast and take the kids to school, WITHOUT yelling!
• Laundry
• Grocery Shopping
• Changed my blog background-since there is Only 2 weeks left until Halloween!
• Baked ANOTHER cake for the Cub Scout Cake Auction tonight!
• Finally got my Diet Coke!!

6 Things I am looking forward to:

• Disneyland
• oh, and Las Vegas
• Our Cruise with a BUNCH of Friends
• Visiting Family in Arizona
• Getting our House Permit Signed Off COMPLETELY (it's been 2.5 yrs since we started the rebuild!!)
• Presidential election to be over-and our peace of minds & country to be SAFE---Heaven help us!!!

6 Thinks on my wish list:

• Safe and happy Family
• Vacation and Money to spend WITHOUT thought or worry!!
• More time in the day to do everything we need, and then More time to wind down with the kids!
• Getting the House Permit signed off and closed
• To win the Lottery! Oh, wait, I don't PLAY the lottery!!
• A Safe Country to live in after the elections

6 People to tag:

• Kelsey
• Steve
• can I tag people Back! April, Vicki
• Trulee-get your blog going again!
• Lori-get your blog Started!!
• (who else has a blog?) Your tagged!!!

Thanks Alot!

It's Over!

Well, the AYSO regular fall season is FINALLY over! No more practices from 5:30-7pm Monday through Friday (Yes-we had practices 5 nights a week--4 kids playing on 4 different teams, 3 of those kids/teams practicing 2 nights a week! All of this interspersed with Basketball practice 3 nights a week, Basketball games 2 nights a week, scouts, and dance. Oh, and don't forget Homework!!)

But, it's over! The kids/teams tuffed out the FREEZING, WINDY, Threats of SNOW Saturday to play their last games. Poor Mom, she had to work, stuck all day in the climate controlled, 72 degrees, and NO wind, hospital with tiny little babies!

Now, there is just soccer practice for Katy (& Coach Denny) 3 nights a week, and only for an hour for the next 2 weeks. Then we get to go to Las Vegas, Baby!! Denny and Coach Kevin have gathered 18 U12 girls to take to the Las Vegas Mayor's Cup Soccer Tournament on the 25-26th of October!

Soccer, Soccer, Soccer (the season is almost Over!)

Saturday, we spent the day in Winnemucca, Nv! Of course, it was for SOCCER!!!

Katy's team played in the U12 Tournament, playing against 9 other AYSO teams from Winnemucca, Elko and Fallon. The day started out a little grey, a bit breezy, and kinda cold. The wind picked up here and there, never comeletely dying off. Thankfully, the rain held off until the very last game at 4! Then, it got CoLd and a little wet!

They played 3 games to determine who would go to 'finals'. The Hot Chilly Peppers (Katy's team) won their first 2 games and lost their 3rd. But, they played well enough to make it to the playoffs for 3/4th place! They played hard, and held their own, placing 4th!

It is still amazing to see the skills and improvements from last year (U10), through the summer tournaments and through their regular season of AYSO Soccer. We are very proud of Katy and her teammates. They played some awesome games!