We went to Colorado Springs for a soccer tournament with Jens's U18 team a couple weeks back. We stayed with Kelly and Mike's, good friends of the family, sister Corin and John Meibos. They'd been in Provo a week or two earlier and offered up their basement to house the 15 boys and 5 chaperons.
It turned out that they were both awesome people despite being Kelly's sister! JOKING. Wendi loves Kelly and had a wonderful time with Corin and her family of 3 girls and 2 boys. They came to a few of the boys games and really had a good time with the 15 soccer players playing card games and generally hanging out during downtime. The Meibos family were just completely awesome people. Not only because they put themselves out there for this team but just because they are. They're the kind of poeple you only find out of every few thousand people! All around really great people! It looks like Kelly and Corin's parents did a great job with their kids!!
I'll let Wendi comtinue on with this. I've typed too much already.
Over & Out
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Adi
We have a new little puppy. His name is Adi. I'll get into why that name in a minute but as Mr. Covey says, first things first...
Christian had been really wanting a dog for some time. After much bugging for probably a good month, I finally though to myself, "it's not right that growing boys not have a dog." So I relented. Christian did his research, we were all certain that we wanted a yellow lab and he'd been searching on KSL Classifieds until we found the perfect mixture of price, location, and puppy. We finally found a breeder in Richfield Utah who had a litter of 10 puppies. They had 2 left they were just wanting to finish selling off so had lowered the price to $100. They were AKC purebred yellow labs.
We jumped in the van, Christian, Ty, and I and we drove nearly 2 hours down to Richfield. We found the house, saw their two remaining puppies, and selected the whiter and more docile of the two as our new family member and baby. On the way to Richfield and home we went through a few names. Including Rex (a reuse of an old dog we used to have), and a few others. I think it was me that suggessted the first name of the great German shoe maker Mr. Adi Dassler after looking up top dog names on the internet, I migrated to a top international dog names and saw some german names, that made me thing of Adi. *Adidas* it seemed like a neat name since our soccer club is sponsered by Adidas and the boys have EVERYTHING adidas.
So Adi it was... There's actually more, his last name is Leosson. Derived from his father who was named Leo. And we threw in "4th stripe" as a little nickname since Adidas brand has 3 stripes, we have 3 boys, so Adi would be the 4th stripe among the boys. Soooo... registered with the AKC he is "Sir Adi 4th Stripe Leosson" Mostly just Adi. You're right... it was a long trip back from Richfield and we had too much time to make things up obviously.
It turns out this puppy, born April 16th, has been the most obedient, docile, easily trained little dog we could've ever asked for. We've loved having him and I even think Wendi (a bird person normally) has even started taking a liking to him. He's a sweet baby. He hung out with us the entire 4 days at the soccer tournament and everyone loved him and he loved all the attention.
Christian had been really wanting a dog for some time. After much bugging for probably a good month, I finally though to myself, "it's not right that growing boys not have a dog." So I relented. Christian did his research, we were all certain that we wanted a yellow lab and he'd been searching on KSL Classifieds until we found the perfect mixture of price, location, and puppy. We finally found a breeder in Richfield Utah who had a litter of 10 puppies. They had 2 left they were just wanting to finish selling off so had lowered the price to $100. They were AKC purebred yellow labs.
We jumped in the van, Christian, Ty, and I and we drove nearly 2 hours down to Richfield. We found the house, saw their two remaining puppies, and selected the whiter and more docile of the two as our new family member and baby. On the way to Richfield and home we went through a few names. Including Rex (a reuse of an old dog we used to have), and a few others. I think it was me that suggessted the first name of the great German shoe maker Mr. Adi Dassler after looking up top dog names on the internet, I migrated to a top international dog names and saw some german names, that made me thing of Adi. *Adidas* it seemed like a neat name since our soccer club is sponsered by Adidas and the boys have EVERYTHING adidas.
So Adi it was... There's actually more, his last name is Leosson. Derived from his father who was named Leo. And we threw in "4th stripe" as a little nickname since Adidas brand has 3 stripes, we have 3 boys, so Adi would be the 4th stripe among the boys. Soooo... registered with the AKC he is "Sir Adi 4th Stripe Leosson" Mostly just Adi. You're right... it was a long trip back from Richfield and we had too much time to make things up obviously.
It turns out this puppy, born April 16th, has been the most obedient, docile, easily trained little dog we could've ever asked for. We've loved having him and I even think Wendi (a bird person normally) has even started taking a liking to him. He's a sweet baby. He hung out with us the entire 4 days at the soccer tournament and everyone loved him and he loved all the attention.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Tournament Time - Adidas Strikerfest 2008
Our annual tournament was slated for July 23rd - 26th 2008. It took several months of planning; many hours of fretting and slaving over scheduling software, and other work to put on but it turned out even better than last year. I, Brian, was put in charge of scheduling the tournament and not being very good at it, I tend to make a pretty good mess of it before it finally all comes together.
Wendi always signs on to help with registrations, and this year she threw her help along with me in finalizing and correcting the scheduling. Thank goodness for her.
The boys all played with their teams, Ty with the U14 Premier team who took 2nd place, Christian with his U16 team who didn't place, and Jens with his U18 Premier team who lost a heart breaker in the championship 0-1 taking 2nd place.
During Jens's game he went up for a header from a punt off the goal keeper, at about 60 yards downfield he rose easily over the offensive player ready to head the ball out of his teams end as he always does. But this time the offensive player pushed Jens just enough to make his head turn and the ball hit Jens directly in the jaw knocking him unconscious for a few seconds. He tried to stand after a minute and went down again. He was really out of it for a good 5 minutes but he wouldn't be held out and after some ice on his neck, a few ibuprofin, some water, and a little jog, he put himself back in the game. Unfortunately, while he was out of the game being glossy eyed, the substitute center fullback lost contact with an attacking player and that's when they scored their goal. UNLUCKY!!!
In addition to playing 4 and 5 games each, Christian and Jens each refereed several games at the tournament earning them 50 and 80 respectively. After finishing the tournament cleanup and everything later than 10:00 Saturday evening we all went to eat and then home to sleep. The tournament was EXHAUSTING. Sunday after church our house looked someone had gassed it. bodies were passed out all over the chairs and beds as if everyone were dead. They all napped very heavily, peacefully. Even our sweet little puppy named Adi.
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