A While

It might be awhile before I am up and posting again.  I had surgery on my hand and can't use it for a couple more weeks.  In the mean time  I will be working on editing pictures and hopefully getting those posted here.  I have lots to write about as soon as I can.

A Quick Post

We are having a great time and enjoying lots of great soccer.

Here is a picture from yesterday.


We are today for some more games and then home.  I will post more later.

Yes, More Soccer Pics

We are getting ready for the last full weekend of soccer.  This is Megans last weekend in Select Soccer and it has been a blast.  On to Summer Rec League and then high school.



Isn't her hair cute.  I love it pulled back like this.  Her coach insisted that she get it back and it caused some major drama.  But in the end, she did it and it looks great.  And best of all, she still loves this coach.  I am telling  you, no one else but this coach could have pulled it off.  Even better, this coach is next's years high school coach.



Getting ready to take the field.



I really wish this child's mother would make him get a hair cut.



I love to watch her face.





She is just really enjoying this season.  I have not seen the laughing and smiles for a very long time.



I really wanted to get a nice picture of these two coming off the field.  I really thought I had one until......



Bailey ate a bug.



That's it for now.  I am sure there will be lots to post after this weekend.

More Soccer Pics

Right now I have some funky music playing and doing some editing of pictures.  I have really been working on learning all the in's and out's of this new software.  Not to mention some new cool features on my camera.  Just in time, because I sense a new lens in my future.

Any way, here are some pictures of this weeks game.  I spent a lot of time talking to another mother so not a lot of pictures.

God Bless America

I have something I want to say.

I live in a small community.  I know that you see patriotism in larger cities but in a small town you see it and feel it all over.  In a bigger city you may see the star's in peoples windows or see the yellow ribbons.  But in a small town you know the names and the families.  Your kids are friends with the kids who's parents are over sees.  We stood in the streets and waved goodbye to the buses as they left our town with our neighbors on their way to Iraq and Afghanistan.  One of those on that bus was my sons baseball coach.

Right now, in this small town, we are celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden.  He was not just an ordinary murder.  He was personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent men, women and children.  I for one, am glad he is dead.

I normally won't post something like this.  I just felt I needed to say something.  A friend posted a list of the children who had died in one of those planes on September 11th on facebook, in response to someone else who was upset at the celebrating going on.  The upset person deleted those kids names because she didn't feel that it had anything to do with the conversation.  They have everything to do with the conversation.  The difference is, that those children were innocent.  Osama knew what he was doing.

While I won't be dancing in the streets, I will not be condemning those who are.  I am also proud of George W. Bush for starting this and for Barrack Obama for finishing the job.  Most of all, I am proud of those men and women in our armed forces.  God Bless you.

I am also proud of one 17 year old kid who has a list of colleges he is looking into:
Eastern Oregon
Norther Idaho
University of Oregon
US Army
US Navy