Hello All,
Today really felt like a Fall day in Indiana. It was only in the 60's. I love it! It looked like rain though so we didn't get to take the boat out afterall. We had a window of about 2 hours that were available to "quick" go boating but we called it off. Tony was the most disappointed.

This was a busy Sunday for us. After church we came home and had a gourmet meal of homemade tacos. At 3:00 Tony and I went to a birthday party for our friend Chad Klopfenstein who is turning 40, so Happy Birthday Chad! We had to leave the party early because....

Madison had a Flames soccer game at 5pm. Now remember, this is the club league soccer. Her team is comprised of mostly area 9-10 year olds (U-10 league... 10 or under in age). It's a long story, but they are playing in the U12 league, so they are playing against girls that are 2-3 years older than them. Let's just say that our girls looked PRETTY LITTLE out there next to those pre-adolescent girls!!! We had warned them ahead of time that they probably won't be winning games but to concentrate on improving their personal skills etc... (blah, blah, blah). The score ended up 0-8. Not pretty, but expected. Madison was quite upset because goal number 3 actually ricocheted off of her leg and into our goal so she felt like she scored for them. Like it really mattered any way!!!!! She smiled about it while out there on the field but on the way home it came out that she was actually quite horrified by the whole play even though it was obvious she could do nothing about it. Anyway, I think she played very good considering the competition. She was about the only one who even had a shot on their goal... let's just say, their goal keeper could have sat down for most of the game. OK, enough of that.

Dutchess is being a very good house guest. She is quite well-behaved and acts like she's lived here forever. She's really quite good company however Tigger (our cat) spends most of her time in the basement or dashing from room to room to avoid her.

That's really about it for today. Quinn and Tony are fine and nothing new to report today.

Love to all,
Leah