Snow in September

It's amazing how much one day makes in the weather here in Utah. Yesterday, as seen in Deni's birthday post, we were outside in short sleeve shirts laying on the grass. Today it snows.

Let it snow.

To contrast yesterday and today:

Sydney outside on Friday Sept 28th:


Sydney outside on Saturday Sept 29th:

Happy 30th Deni

Happy Birthday Deni! Deni turned 30 today.

I took off half a day of work and came home to spend some time with Deni and the kids. The kids happened to be out of school today for some school administration day. When I got home, Sydney wanted to go outside and play chalk. Sydney loves to go outside and play with chalk on the driveway. However today, she wanted someone to play with her. Deni was on the phone, so I went out and played chalk with her.

We decided to let the neighborhood know it was Deni's birthday.

After we finished it, Sydney went inside and got Deni. Sydney made Deni close her eyes and then she brought her out to show her our masterpiece.

Later on Ryan had a soccer game. When we got there, the other team didn't have enough players, so Ryan was chosen with a couple of others to play on the other team. I'm surprised he was happy playing on the other team. However his real team scored on him (I think it was their first score of the whole season). Of course, it had to be the game that Ryan got put on the other team. Somehow at the end of the game, he was excited that his real team won a game, even though he wasn't on the team at the time.

After Ryan's soccer game, we dropped the kids off at my sister, Teresa's, and Deni and I went out to eat at Red Lobster. We both had the All you can eat shrimp. We didn't get to eat until about 9pm, as there was about an hour wait. But it was worth the wait.

I'm glad Deni is finally 30 years old, as she has been giving me a hard time for the last 2 1/2 years that I'm in my 30's.

Real Salt Lake Soccer Game

A few months ago we won four Real Salk Lake Soccer tickets at an auction. We finally got around to redeeming them for tonights game.

Of course the night I picked to go to the game, it had to rain. Actually it was more than rain, it poured the whole time we were at the game, however we had a fun time.

It was the first time that any of us had attended a Professional Soccer game. Having grown up playing soccer, I looked forward to taking the family to the game. With Sydney playing soccer for the first time this year and with Ryan playing for his 2nd year, I had hoped that seeing a Professional soccer team play might make both Ryan and Sydney more interested in playing soccer.

We took rain poncho's because we didn't have enough umbrellas and it turned out to be the best decision we made as when we walked in, there was a huge box of umbrellas. The guard said no umbrellas were allowed, as it is impossible to watch a game with someone in front of you with an umbrella. Since it was already pouring, we were wearing our poncho's. I had a number of people stop me and ask me where I bought the poncho. I told them Wal-mart, but I'm sure they were thinking that someone at the game was selling them. It was pretty cool (in the 60's) as well, so I'm glad we were able to stay mostly dry for the 90 minute game.

We sat next to a group of people that were banging a drum and chanting all night. As Deni said, the game is a very fast paced game, unlike football. There aren't too many times that things stopped, even when someone was down injured.

Real Salt Lake beat the Colorodo Rapids 1 to 0. I think we all enjoyed tonight's outing.

Soccer, Soccer

We've been staying busy with bi-weekly soccer games for Ryan. It seems like we are always going to something. Monday night is family night, Tuesday is YM/YW's, Wed and Friday at soccer games and occasionally on Thursdays, I have meetings.

Ryan's soccer team is called the Charge. Ryan's team has struggled to win a game this year, but since they play 2 games a week, they don't practice. Some of the teams do practice and it makes a big difference. (the difference between winning and losing.) However if they practiced it would be more time away from home.

Most of the time Ryan plays defense and has learned to get his body in front of the ball and even sacrifice his body for the team.

It's been fun and frustrating to watch Ryan play soccer.

School Pictures

We got the kids pictures taken for school. They came out really well again this year.

Ryan just started 2nd grade

Sydney is attending a preschool a few times a week.

Never driven by a woman

We are trying to sell our van and replace it with an older Toyota 4Runner. While I was looking for a 4Runner for sale today, I came across a 2001 Toyota 4Runner with this description and it made me laugh.

It has low miles and has never been off road and driven by a woman.

I'm just taking a guess here, but my guess is the seller either isn't married, or is divorced, or will as soon be divorced (at least as soon as his wife sees the posting.)