Friday 5 - Happy Thanksgiving!!!

It seems like it was just Halloween! I can't believe that it's Thanksgiving already! The year is just flying by... This Thanksgiving weekend starts with my birthday. Yep! 50yrs this weekend! I doesn't bother me... 50 is just a number, and I don't feel 50. I don't think I look it either and my very wonderful family supports me on that, hehehe... thanks, guys!

We had a great dinner at one of my very favorite places, TODAI! I got some wonderful presents too... lots of GCs for GAP (my favorite store). Cheryl and I braved the crowds at the mall and went shopping today! The kids got me a giant tootsie roll, lol! Not really, but you've got to admire the wrapping job. They got me a foam roller (Hey, Mara, I have a foam roller now! YIPEE!!) Jim surprised me with tickets to see Jeff Dunham at the POND! It's for tomorrow night, and I'm so excited!

Here is a photo of Chris giving his Thanksgiving toast (it's for extra credit in Spanish class). My cousin held Thanksgiving at her house this year. She just finished some major remodeling. Her house is gorgeous! I especially LOVE her kitchen. Hopefully, I will get the chance to do mine next year.

Before heading to my cousin's for Thanksgiving, Chris and I ran the 10K Turkey Trot in Dana Point. It was clear and COLD! We both PR'd... I wanted to finish in 53 minutes, and ended up finishing in 51! YAHOO! Chris left me in the dust, finishing in 43 minutes and this was without even trying. He said that he was going at cruising speed instead of race pace. I'll add more about the Turkey Trot in a future post.

I finished the Cross Country photo albums! 78 albums and just over 2000 photos! I still need to finish the frames for the seniors, hopefully by the end of this weekend. I've got to get moving on them... the banquet is coming up next week!

On the way to the mall, Cheryl and I stopped for our first RED CUP of the season! Now the season is offically underway! Here comes Santa Claus...

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Weekly Sports Report

Here is the LAST sports report of the year. Cross country is over and now so is soccer. Cheryl ended the season with a BANG as she scored the tying goal in the very last game of the season! She said that the ball bounced off the goalie, then the goalie charged out to get it. Cheryl had her back to the goal, reach out, just managed to get her toe on it, and volley-ed it back towards the goal... just at the goalie crashed into her. As Cheryl was laying on the ground with the goalie on top of her, she was thinking, "I wonder if that went in..." IT DID! Saddleback finishes the season with a TIE! Here's the story from the Saddleback website:
http://www.saddleback.edu/athletics/Soccer/2009.html

... and the good news is... SADDLEBACK DID NOT FINISH IN LAST PLACE!

On to other good news... the Quakes last game was another WIN! They finished their BRONZE season in FIRST PLACE and will move on to SILVER next year! Congratulations Quakes!

Friday-5: Good-bye Kayle...

Tonight, Kayle was outside when she yelped and started to whimper. She couldn't lay down and her stomach was bloated. We took her right away to Animal Urgent Care. They did x-rays and told us that her stomach detached from the wall of her abdomen and twisted... because of her age (she's 16yrs), they recommended that we have her put down. Poor Kayle is gone in doggie heaven...

It's Milkbone time! Every morning at 7am! How in the world can a dog tell time? I don't know, but she definitely knew when it was 7am!

Her luxury in life... sleeping wrapped in a blanket on a cold night!

She loved to go for car rides! Anytime she hears car keys, she's running for the door! ... AND yep, that's Chris. You can imagine how long she's been in our family.

She had a very non-dog-like personality. Instead of being eager to please and starved for attention. Queen Kayle has her own mind. She's stubborn and gets moody when she doesn't get her way. She may grace us with her presence when we call, or maybe not (depends if she's feeling gracious). But she was a GOOD dog and she was so darn CUTE!

Kayle's greatest joy in life was licking the dregs at the bottom of an ice cream cup!

Good-bye, Kayle. We LOVE you, and we'll MISS you!

Weekly Sports Report

I had a crazy crazy week at work... It was a 50 hour week, but I still made time to get to Cheryl's game. This may be the only game I see this season. Uhmmm... they lost... Nothing new there... BUT I got some photos of Cheryl playing! She was playing striker again and took some shots on goal. The keeper on the other team stopped them all this time. Poor Cheryl, with sore feet, a pulled hamstring and hip flexor, she's just managing to limp through the rest of the season. No rest for Cheryl... she plays the whole game. Two more games this week and the season is OVER! Cheryl is very happy! After she takes some time to heal, she said that she will start running with Chris and me.

The last Cross Country meet of the season (for non-Varsity) and Chris is sick. At least his fever was gone, but he was still very congested. Poor guy... he really wanted to PR at his last race. It didn't happen. I think he fell to 8th. The good news is that CAPO is going to CIF for the second year in a row, YAHOO!!!







Coach Cheryl was under pressure this weekend! She was tasked to not break the Quakes undefeated streak while Coach Monica is recovering from knee surgery. And she did it!!! The Quakes win 1-0 on a PK! It sounds like it was an exciting game.

Galaxy went into their second playoff game against Chivas, tied on aggregate! We got tickets, because it was a game NOT to MISS!!! Here's the funny part... we got tickets through Chivas because they cost less than the exact same tickets through Galaxy. We sat between the two Chivas cheering squads. I wish I had my camera... we were given confetti and streamers... they were beating HUGE drums and chanting, waving flags and banners... BIG TIME PARTY!!! Things got rowdy when a couple of guys set off a smoke bomb. The Security people were chasing them through the stands, cornered them under the drum, and hauled them away. Oh, and the game! Very exciting! Galaxy won on a PK (just like Cheryl's Quakes) and are advancing to the semi-finals against Houston!

Weekly Sports Report

The second cluster meet was last week, but I got stuck at work and missed it... so no photos this week. Chris came in front of Ricky! That put Chris in the #5 scoring spot last week! GO CHRIS!!! According to the Orange County Register, the Capo XC team is ranked #10 in Orange County! GO CAPO!

I'll just cut and paste from last week, "two more losses for the Gauchos." There is a difference! Cheryl was moved from defense to striker and scored two goals... but it wasn't enough to win the game...


Quakes TIED!!! That ends their winning streak... but they can still say that they are undefeated. With Coach Monica getting knee surgery this week, that puts Coach Cheryl in charge, GO QUAKES! LOOK! They are on the short list of unbeaten teams in Orange County!
http://soccer.xkorangecounty.com/news.php?viewStory=4717

Free Holiday Class with Jessica Sprague

I've taken a couple of Jessica's classes before and they've been wonderful! I feel like a Photoshop wiz thanks to her... I've already signed up for her next free class. Come join in the FUN!

Happy Halloween

Are 19yr and 16yrs too old for Trick or Treating? My kids don't think so! They are never too old to have FUN!

We had an ethnic theme going on this year. With black hair, black eyes, and dark complextion, Chris is often mistaken for hispanic (especially since his three best friends are all hispanic)... hey, if you can't beat them, join them, lol! And then there is my daughter, the hapa rasta, LOL!

My brother and SIL have a HUGE Halloween party every year! Look at that bowl of candy!

The kids are ready to hit the streets for some serious trick or treating!

Here's Cheryl with our newest trick or treater...

The kids are gone... and here we are all settled in waiting to give out candy.

Look at ALL the FOOD!!!

My mom and dad... My mom usually dresses up in some amazing costume! This year she came as a lady with a broken arm. Actually, she just broke it in Las Vegas and had surgery on it this week.

Winding down after a busy night of trick or treating. We will all be thankful for the extra hour of sleep tonight!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Weekly Sports Report

No cross country this week... well, actually there was a BIG meet at Mt. Sac. But, the invitational got too big and Mt. Sac cut all the JV races. Since Chris is on JV, there was no racing for him, but he still needed to get up at 4:30am to catch the bus and cheer on the team.

Uhm... two more losses for the Gauchos. An example of just how bad this team is: Cheryl was playing center defender, she got between the ball and the other team's striker and was ready to kick it out. BUT her keeper called for the ball... Cheryl expected her to pick the ball up, but she came out and tried to kick it. She ended up missing the ball and kicking Cheryl in the leg... the ball rolled past the keeper and into the net. Cheryl has a big bruise on her hip flexor.

Quakes win again! They played the second place team last weekend... looks like they will sweep the entire league!

PTI October Blog Hop

Welcome Blog Hoppers! Time has just flown by... I can't believe the last time I joined the PTI blog hop was in June! It's totally unbelievable because I love PTI stamps, paper, and all the other great goodies that go along with them.

Today I want to share a matchbook card that I made using PTI Rustic Snowflake paper. I fell in love with the soft, rich colors! Just beautiful!

The large snowman stamp is from Provo Craft. The inside sentiment is "holly jolly Christmas," which is from the Holiday Button Bits stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!
Enjoy the rest of the blog hop!

Happy Crafty Friday!

YAHOO!!! It's Friday! I'm soooo happy! It's been a really busy week... Well, as promised today, I have FIVE crafty projects to share! I created them, inspired by the crop at Color Me Daisy. Here they are! Starting first with a couple layouts.

This first layout is from last spring at the flower fields. Doesn't that photo make a perfect layout?

Chris dresses up for school on Fridays. They call it Fancy Friday. He was in such a great mood when he got his first tie, that he even posed for me, hehehe!

I'm an owl hater... stupid owls! But I ended up using an owl stamp on Chris's layout and on this cute card. I can't believe I had more than one owl stamp.

This week I got into making flowers. This cute flower is made of gathered ribbon.

I decorated this little pillow box with a paper flower. My mom won a paper flower book from the craft fair a couple weeks ago and gave it to me. The flowers in the book were so amazing that I just had to try it.

Here's a close up. I'm really happy with how it came out, but it's not as nice as the ones in the book.

That's it for this Friday... don't be expecting five crafty items every Friday. As much as I would like to, it won't be happening. {sigh}

Have a great weekend everyone!

Weekly Sports Report

Does Chris look like he just played a football game or ran a cross country race? The answer is the latter... He hit himself in the mouth with a water bottle right before the race started. This is the same tooth that he broke when he was about 8yrs old. The dentist glued it back together, and it’s held for all these years. He had a root canal done on the same tooth last year. We were told then that it would weaken the structure and he would have to have it capped eventually... well, not yet... the dentist wants to wait until he's 18yrs, so he glued it back in again. As for the race, even with the distraction of his missing tooth, he came in 6th for JV, just one position back from scoring… so he’s getting BETTER!

The Gauchos WON A GAME on Tuesday! It’s AMAZING, especially since there are only 11 girls on the team who are not red or gray shirted. I just learned that red shirted means injured for the season and gray shirted is injured with a chance of playing again. They lost again on Friday, but that’s not unexpected against 1st place Santiago Canyon. Cheryl said she had to play center defender and that she was amazing! Parents, trainers, and the coach’s mother seeked her out to tell her what a GREAT job she did.

Quakes win again! They were scored on again, so that makes two goals against them (a wet ball slipped between the goalie’s legs). BUT the Quakes are still undefeated! The head coach is going in for knee surgery soon and that will put Cheryl in the head coach position. Hopefully Coach Cheryl can keep up the undefeated streak!