Baseball, Basketball and Soccer

Hello to All,
I'll try to catch you on the last 2 days events and give you the condensed version. Friday night Tony and I went to the Chicago White Sox game with Rollpak. It was a little unsettling to get off the chartered bus only to hear the tornado WARNING siren blowing in Chicago!!!! The rain soon followed but within an hour it managed to blow over and the evening turned out to be beautiful! Of course it helped that we were treated to a Diamond Suite just behind homeplate & a little towards 1st base. We had a delicious supper and got to enjoy the game from a totally different view. We didn't get home until 3am (our time) so this morning came awfully early. Terry and Karla took the kids to the MCC sale and then Karla brought our kids back home so they could sleep in their own beds and then she napped on the couch until we got in. Thank you Karla!!!!

This morning Madison had a basketball evaluation at Concord...for girls that will be playing BB on Saturday mornings this Fall. That was at 9am. Afterwards she told me that her free throw needed some work! HA! (I'm sure there's much more than that that needs working on!). We really need to get a hoop in our driveway!

The rest of the day brought 3 soccer games. Madison's first game was at 11am and ended up with their 5th (yes!) tie!!!!.... 1-1. I'm so sick of ties! Quinn's game was at 12:30 and guess what... also a tie!!! ...0-0 (that was really unusual for them not to score). I guess we cannot complain that the teams aren't evenly matched this year. We went home and watched most of the 2nd half of the Iowa game (yeah Hawks) and then took off for Madison's Flames game in Chesterton, IN. It took us 1 hour to get there. We lost 0-6. I've changed my personal goals for our team... that we will get at least 1 shot towards the goal during the game. We actually had 3! Let me remind you that our team is mostly 9-10 year olds and we are playing 12 and under teams. Wow, what a difference a few years make! Madison played hard all day today. She didn't sit out at all in the morning and she was out for about 60 seconds in the Flames game. It had rained earlier and was pretty muddy. Let's just say I'll get to see if Tide really does work to get out mud stains out of WHITE soccer shorts! (Who was the wiseman to choose white??!!). Madison's best "moment" came towards the end of the game when she booted the ball while on defense and squarely planted her punt on the hind end of the referee! She couldn't help but smile and we all got a good laugh out of it. She also raised some crowd reaction when slippping in some mud and landing on her rear, leaving a muddy souvenir on her hind end! Thankfully it didn't rain on us today. We went out for pizza with Tonya & Petyon and Sara & Maddie J. and got home about 9:45 tonight. Whew... a fun but long day! Just for your interest (or not), Madison's flames team is comprised of 11 girls and here is a sample of their names... there's our Madison M., Madison P., Madeline, Maddie, Moriah, and Mackinzie. If someone yells out a generic "Maddy"... 4 girls kind of wonder if they are the ones being hollared at!

Well, it's late, I better get a good night's sleep tonight. Often it's the 2nd day after a short night that I feel most of the fatigue. M, Q and I did get a cat nap on the way to Chesterton so that was good.

Love to All,
Leah