Too Cold For Basketball?!

School is closed due to cold? What's up w/that!? The weather gets into the teens and NE OK shuts down. Kids get two free days off, coming on the heels of winter break. Dare I say, the wussification of America's youth continues. I can handle school being out, just don't cancel our basketball games! At least Hardwood will be open this weekend for JP's first tourney w/her new And 1 team. Should be a fun time. Gonna miss Cuz Chad's wedding this weekend but the reception this spring should be a better event anyway!

New Year!

After two weeks away from the office I return refreshed and ready for a great 2010. Bball takes up most of the week w/Logan's freshman game tonight, JP's practice tomorrow and game Thurs, and possible tourney this weekend. Here we go 2010...off and running!

Well, the indoor soccer Trojans took another defeat last night (0-2 for the season now). We are a rec team playing in a competitive division against club teams so it's nothing we didn't really expect. Although, in last season's competitive division we went 7-1! After the game the opposing coach stopped me to confirm that we were rec. He couldn't believe how well we were organized and how well we played, being a rec team. He asked why we don't join a club and of course I had to give him my standard answer that our girls are too involved w/other sports to just focus on one. He said we werethe best rec team he'd ever seen! The prevailing thought going in to the game by some of our players and parents was that we were going to get smoked. (Not sure what that means...maybe 10-15 or so to nothing?). We held the club team to a 0-0 halftime score and I could tell the opposing coach and some players were frustrated! Jensen heard their coach say "this should be practice for us!", yelling at his players. A few of our players and myself overheard the coach griping and getting in the face of his players when they were on the bench. They were very surprised, to say the least, to be in a competitive game against a "rec" team! (I love this!) Anyway, we did go on to lose 5-0. But, overall, to make our girls better and get positive comments from opposing coaches about our girls is a very good feeling! I'm really proud of how they played and held together. Hopefully they see the message and will carry forward w/a great season!

I had big intentions to write my blog regularly. Time is tough to find but I wanted to post this nice email I received from a fellow JTA board member. Kenny has a son, Cooper, in 5th grade. Cooper team played after Jensen's game last weekend so he saw JP play her Trojan Hoops game. After the game, Kenny and I were talking and he asked who Jensen was, not knowing she was my daughter. When I told him she was a Prince, he had a ton of positive, nice things to say about her bball skills. Funny, b/c JP had a horrible shooting game (missed about 10 layups) and only scored about 4 points. But, Kenny saw other things in her game that made him send me the following email the next day...

EP-
Just wanted to say again how impressed I was with your daughter’s play on Saturday. She plays very good defense and is aggressive on the offensive end. Tell her to keep up the hard work. I look forward to watching her play on Tuesday and Friday nights in the future.

Why?

What IS the next big event? Some years ago, I guess about the time JP was born, I started writing Word documents to log events in our lives. At that time, Mason was about 6, Logan about 4, and JP just a baby. The kids were all so funny during that time and LeAnn and I were always trading stories about what one of them had done recently. Anyway, I wanted to preserve some of these thoughts so I began just writing things down in Word. (This was way before the advent of blogging). The process became tedious and needless to say I didn't keep up w/it very well. Some of those old documents are fun to read, just don't know if I can find them anymore! When I received an email from a friend w/a blog address entered, I explored the site and voila! The Next Big Event was born! I like to write, although I'm not very creative, so I'm hoping this blog will become a vehicle to log thoughts and events that someday the kids might enjoy looking back on. Thanks Annie, for the inspiration!