Head Coach

We were all ready for the season to begin we had well Dane had signed Brian up and we were wondering who his coach would be. Then Dane got a call that they wanted him to be a head coach. He told them that he would have to think about it since it is a lot of extra stuff to do and since I am working so much I am not going to be able to help a lot. He agreed and Brian was thrilled!!!!!!
Dane had to pick his team and since the Yankees were already chosen he was only given one instruction from Brian NO RED SOX or he will ask another coach to draft him. Hahahaha that kid and his DISLIKE of the Red Sox.
Dane picked the Arizona Diamondbacks. He called and told me that was his choice then he told me that he chose white pants. I almost fell out of my chair at work. WHO PICKS WHITE PANTS, dads do that is for sure, first the dirt is the red dirt like Utah red dirt it stains the boys gray pants I was having nightmares of trying to clean those. So after a little rant I asked him to please change them to gray which he did.
Dane is really excited and is looking forward to tryouts on Saturday!!!

Family history

Tonight my Uncle and Aunt

wanted to get to together for 

dinner and to give us something

that they have been working on 

for a while.

It was a complete history of my 

Grandparents and the Staples 

side of the family. They have spent so

much time on this and wanted to share it with

us. They gave us a thumb drive with all the info

on it.

We had a Yummy dinner at Cafe Rio and then 

headed back to Mom's house to 

look at what they were giving us.

There was so many pictures of my dad 

that I have never seen and Larry had some really

great stories about a lot of the pictures!

He told us some things about my Grandpa that 

I never knew, like how when he came 

home from WW2 he had been on 

rations for so long that he was 

pretty much starved and when the war was over

they had to get all the soldiers home and they

were on boats for a month or longer and when 

he got home it was Thanksgiving and all 

he could eat ( or all his stomach could hold) was a 

couple of peas and some mashed potatoes. 

He not only came home dealing with 

the starvation and the horror he saw in war

he came home to a 2 year old son he had never met.

Makes you think that what we have to 

complain about is pretty lame compared to 

what others have survived.

It was a fun night and hopefully 

we can all start getting together more often.

 

Cheer Competition

 These girls have done some exciting things this season and today was probably the best yet!
We got up super early and headed across town to Desert Oasis High school where USA cheer was having a qualifying for nationals. Now we were not there to go to Nationals we were just there to get the experience.
We found the girls and they were off to start practicing. I found my seat twice( we the parents were on the wrong side) soon after we sat in the right spot the stunt divisions were competing.  These girls were good and where doing some crazy stunts! Then it was the junior/ high school novice teams that were up. We were up next and the girls came on the mats and did their routine the best they have ever done it and they were so LOUD!!! That the crowd was really shouting back at them. They did great they were really excited as they were running off the mat!! 

 After they were up there was like a million more teams that went on, craziest part for sure was when one of the middle schools were doing a group back flip and one of the girls SNAPPED her arm in half below her elbow. She got up in shock and was looking for help. I was pretty far away from her, but the girls were right in front of her and they had a really close up view!
Finally it was time to hear how the girls did! They got first place in their division!!! They were stoked and you could see if from across the gym. After all the awards were given out and we had been there for 5.5 hours we were both ready to go home and veg on the couch!!!!

Found out that when Coach Holly got the score card for the girls they were only  3 points away from making Nationals. This is HUGE!! it was their first competition and unlike the other girls they practice only once a week not 5. And they were that close, that is a HUGE shout out to Holly and the coaching that she is doing! And the girls have really stepped it up, who knows maybe next year we will be going to DISNEYLAND for Nationals!!!