Soccer season has begun.  I hope the season goes well.  We have a few new kids this year.  we held our first practice and it went well.  I had to remind the kids that I'm a loud coach.  we have our jerseys and we are missing one.  I have yet to have a season where we get all the jerseys we need to have.   I hope we get the jerseys before the season starts on the 22nd.  I hope we can get through the season without an event with the parents on either side.

We had our youth conference reunion.  We had fun making up games int he backyard.  the kids ahd fun, we only had a few kids not make the bbq.  We had fun and our kids seemed to enjoy our youth conference family.

We took the Bryants and the Ludlows to the cabin with us this past weekend.  We had fun.  The kids were very active when we were trying to get them to bed.  they were trying to tell each other ghost stories.  I took control and made up a story loosley based on Monty Python and the search for the Holy Grail.  It as very long and did the trick.  in the morning we went down to the river.  the Lever's had started a dam in the river earlier this year and we spent about an hour building to it.  It has made part of the river very swift.  Mari fell into the shallow slow part of the river nad struggled a bit.  She could have stood up but she tried to swim.  She was very imbarrassed and wanted to go back to the cabin.  Tiffany took her back and let her take off her shirt becasue she was cold.  Mari was concerned about be