Soccer Team Service Project

Digital Underground

Scott and Haley before the Digital Underground Dance

(black lights -everyone dresses in neon colors)

Another Baptism

 Thursday night we attended another awesome baptism.  This time it was for one of Kevin's friends, Juan Robles.  He's the one in the orange tie.  Kevin has had the opportunity this time to attend missionary discussions and church with Juan, and it has been a great experience.  As you can see, Juan has a lot of great support from friends at school and seminary.

 Scott and Lyden have been there from the beginning.  Pablo should be in this picture, too.

  Silliness

 Soccer buds

 Juan and the elders

Before leaving and invading Farr's

Dirty Girls

On Saturday Camille and her friend from BYU ran in the "Dirty Dash" at Soldier Hollow.  It is a 5K obstacle course over the mountains and through the mud.  Sound like fun?

Dirty shoes donated

Our Saturday- A Race, a Game, and a Baptism

 A beautiful day for a run!  Camille completed the Ogden half marathon for the 4th consecutive year with a time of 1:58.  She plans to train for the Top of Utah full marathon this September.  Go, Camille!

I probably should have been doing yard work, but instead I traveled to Sandy to watch Kevin's intense soccer game.  Beautiful weather, infuriating refs, and no regrets.  How often do you get to see your 14-year-old with this expression on his face?

 Then, Saturday night, our friend, Ule's baptism.  It was a very special occasion.  He's a great young man and the third of Scott's friends to be baptized in the last couple months.  Pablo and Ule he is especially close to.

The original missionary discussion group that's been together through many, many discussions (with Bro. Williams -seminary teacher)

Support from the soccer team

Support from friends -many come to the missionary discussions

The elders with Pablo, Ule, and Uriel -the three Ogden High baptisms in April and May 2011 -Pablo's showing off his CTR ring :)  The elder on the right came into the mission at the beginning of April.  Quite a way to start!

 Matt and Kevin are good friends with Ule.  Matt loves to practice soccer with him in the sports court and he's sad that Ule's going to his own ward now and not coming to church with us anymore.

More soccer team pics

 Just a note -if it seems like Pablo's being a little bit of a goof in these pictures -he was absolutely on cloud 9.  He and Ule have been best friends since they were little. Pablo has been so excited about the church since he was baptized, but he doesn't have any family support.  This is kind of a dream come true for him.  Ule's sweet family was at the baptism and his father is reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish and talking to the missionaries.  I took a picture of his whole family but I'm so sad it didn't turn out.  In addition to his brother and sister in the picture he has a little sister (maybe 5) and his older sister has a daughter who looks like his younger sister's twin (dressed alike and everything -so cute) and his mother and father.  I had my camera on the settings from the soccer game and the picture was almost pitch black.  Dang.

 A very nice night and a good ending to a busy, although not very productive day.

Catching Up -Running Around

At the first of May we ran down to PG for a triple birthday celebration for Kevin, Megan, and Garrett.  We enjoyed chatting, playing and synchronized candle blowing with cousins that we don't see often enough.  Ule came with us and had fun playing games with the cousins.

We have done a lot of running to and in soccer games.  Here are some more soccer pictures.  We've had some pretty exciting games this season.  These pictures aren't necessarily from the most exciting games -sometimes I forget to take pictures when the games get stressful, but here you go:

One more track meet for Kevin -Same result despite strong winds: Third in mile with same time (5:55) and his 4x400 relay team came in first.

 And one more running event to wrap things up -the 3rd annual Shadow Valley 5K. This is the first year it hasn't been pouring rain.  We weren't quite sure what to do. 

 Camille and Matt finished strong at 34 minutes some odd seconds.

We own this place

 I didn't get a picture of Kevin finishing, but he took 13th place overall and 1st in his age division with a time of 20:55.  And, maybe the biggest victory was that he beat his teammate from track who kept beating him and coming in second in the mile.  (His good friend Zach who always wins the mile was signed up to run this race but ended up being out of town -probably a good thing)

 If you look closely at Matt's knees you can see where he skinned them when he wiped out about half-way through.  He kept on going, though, and did an awesome job.  Thanks to Camille for running with him.  Next up for her -The Ogden Half-marathon coming up this Saturday!  Good luck!

What Was I Thinking?

Okay, 1/6 of my life just drove off in this car.  I guess the time comes when you have to trust your children, and according to my husband that time is now.  I can't believe I just let Scott and 4 friends drive to Las Vegas to stay with his friend's family for spring break.  The look on Zach's face in this picture is not exactly reassuring, although I'm pretty sure he was just posing for me.  Extra prayers on their behalf would be appreciated for the next few days.  FYI -this car is now equipped with brand new tires, speed limit control of 80 mph, radio volume control of no more than half volume, and the radio doesn't work without the seatbelts.  They also got the full run down of every warning and lecture in my arsenal.  If I seem a little tense this weekend, you'll know why.  Why do they have to grow up?

Pablo's Baptism

Scott & Pablo

Ule, Scott, Pablo, Bro. Williams (seminary teacher), Lyden, Kyler

Kyler, Scott, Ule, Pablo, Clayton

Zach, Kevin

Lyden's mom and I decided refreshments were in order

It was a wonderful night.  Many, many kids from the school and soccer team came to support Pablo.  Lyden baptized him and Scott and Kyler bore their testimonies during the service.  Both of them mentioned that even though everyone tells them that they have been a great example for Pablo it really has been the other way around, and Scott said that he started going to the discussions hoping to convert Pablo, but it became a real conversion for him, too.  I'm so grateful for these good boys.  I usually see them in shorts and t-shirts and it seems like all they think about is sports and food and occasionally girls.  It's wonderful to see them exercise their priesthood and really grow and realize how much good they are capable of.

Soccer, Of Course

I haven't posted any soccer pictures for a while, because I get kind of tired of posting about the same old thing, but, face it, that's a big part of our life pretty much year round.  Right now we are in the transition from the indoor to outdoor season.  Only one more indoor game next week, then on to outdoor for Matt.  He has learned a lot this year.  He had become much more aggressive during the indoor season.

Kevin has been playing on the 7-8th grade Jr. High team for the last couple of months as well as practicing with his club team.  Luckily there are only two other Jr. Highs in our school district so that makes for a very short season. :)  4 games and a championship.  They had their championship game last night which they won -good job Rams! -just in time for the club season to begin on Saturday. 

Playing keeper for the first time since he was 10

Love these boys!

Scott is playing on Ogden High's team and I don't have any pictures yet because I haven't wanted to freeze my fingers off, but his season goes through May, so I'm sure I'll get plenty. His team is doing well in the preseason, when they haven't been snowed out.  Also, there has been some missionary work going on with a couple of the players.  They haven't had a game this week and Scott and two of his LDS teammates have been attending the missionary discussions with one of his good friends on the team who is preparing for baptism.  Another teammate who is interested has been attending, as well as a teammate who was baptized last year and needs a little boost.  More to come on this.