Parental Game Rage

At Saturday's game I experienced my first instance of parental game rage when a big kid from the opposing team pushed Hailey down twice. I had to hold myself back from "speaking" with the coach. I just told her when she got subbed out of the game for a rest that she wasn't to push him back no matter how many times he pushed her. I secretly wanted to go in there and whack his legs out from under him. :-)

Hailey the Soccer Girl

Hailey's Sleepover

Hailey had a sleepover with one of her friends, Kiara, last night. Kiara is Hailey's soccer coach, Casey's, daughter. They were in kindergarten together last year.

Hailey had all sorts of things planned, but the funnest (is that a word?) was a trip to Adam's Mill.

Here a video of them splashing in the creek.

There's a secret message at the end of this next video for the Mom~sters CB. We can hardly wait to take the Mom~ster and all the kiddos to Adam's Mill the next time they visit.

Here's the covered bridge over the creek.


Here's the giant hollowed out tree. Can you believe how huge it is? We love having a place like this only 5 minutes from our house. It makes me not miss Pennsylvania so much.


Here's Shelby finally getting to get in on the sleepover action. She and Daddy went on a daddy date while we went to Adam's Mill, and she was distraught over not being able to participate with the big girls. In the end she got to play with Kiara's hair.

Notice the bug house Kiara's holding. They caught three caterpillars and played with them all night. Then they slept with them. Then they played with them this morning. Then they made them dance to music on the way to the soccer game. Then they got them out and played with them during the soccer game. I'm surprised they haven't died yet.

Cuddling Time

We decided it was time for Ozzy to become an inside dog. He's had a lot of baths this week. After one of them we decided to have cuddling time with him. I don't know how long that's going to last.

Isn't he getting big?

Game Two

This post is from last week's game. I forgot I hadn't posted it yet.

Hailey had a great Game Two. Shelby was really into it.

After the game we got a little jungle gym action in.

Picnic

Today I walked out of work and was shocked to see Brian's truck next to mine. I reached for my cell phone to call him to see if something was wrong when I noticed he and Shelby hanging out by the pond. It turns out Brian and Shelby decided to surprise us with a picnic supper by the pond after work today. It was so fun, and the weather was beautiful. What a beautiful surprise!

Why I can never support Obama

http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2007/09/stanek_on_the_o.html

http://www.illinoisrighttolife.org/newpage36.htm

http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000007034.cfm

No matter who Obama's opponent was, no matter how horrible, no matter how ineffective - I will always support him / her just because it means I won't be supporting Obama.