Soccer winners!

Last Saturday Calissa had her soccer game for 1st place in her league and Conner had his last soccer game for 3rd place.  They both won!  Calissa's team is going on to the area tournament in a week.  Conner's team is unfortunately finished for the season, but came in 3rd place.

Congratulations on great seasons!  They both played great, scoring several goals each, and played on some talented teams this season!

Cross Country Season

The cross country season for Concord High has come (and almost gone) way too quickly!  They only had three regular league meets this season, the DVAL championships, and then NCS (coming in a few weeks).

 Parker had a great season.  The first meet was at Newhall Park.  He was a little nervous.

No need!  He finished 2nd overall with a time of 16:18, beating his personal best by 40 seconds!

 

The 2nd league meet was at Castle Rock.  Parker ended up getting a major headache about 20 minutes before he had to run.  (It was weird because he hardly ever gets headaches!)  Coach said, "no running", so he was out for this race, and very bummed!

 The 3rd league meet was back at Newhall.  Here he is with the Varsity Team.

 He ended up finishing 9th overall with a time of 16:14. 

 Last Saturday was the DVAL championship meet at Castle Rock.  Here is Parker and Tyler as we were arriving.  Like all the green and yellow flags in the background?  Go Concord!

(Yes, it is Cross Country, but they are sporting Concord Volleyball sweatshirts!)

 The day started off with Frosh/Soph Girls, then Frosh/Soph Boys.  Next was JV Girls, and JV Boys.  Finally it was Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys.

 Coach Cardenas giving the boys a pep talk before running.

 

 The start is always crazy!  There were about 50 boys running.

 Here is Parker his first time around and up the hill.  The 2nd time around there was a loose dog running around back and forth around the runners. Not good!

Here is Parker (and the other Parker from CP ... they always end up close to each other!)

 Here is the exciting finish!  He was in 9th coming into the final stretch and ended up passing two runners to make it to that important 7th spot for 1st team all-league! (You may want to turn down the volume so you don't have to hear me yelling!)

 Congratulations Parker!!

Here we are at the awards.

 Here is Parker being announced for 1st team all-league.  Watch his fellow teammates cheer him on.  They are so supportive of him!

Congratulations Parker on a successful season!  Good luck at NCS!

Happy Halloween!

We started our Halloween celebration a little early this year.  Trunk or Treat was the Friday before Halloween and Calissa invited a few friends.

 Kaitlyn, Calissa, and Kyrsten all dressed up and ready to go!
(Little Red Riding Hood, a butterfly ballerina, and a skeleton)

Conner (a soccer ref), Calissa (a blue butterfly ballerina), Trav (a hockey player - minus a few teeth), and Parker (a runner).

Here I am joining them.  I went as a substitute teacher!

Drew, Tina and the kids joined us.  Here is me and Emily.

Here's a close-up of Travis, minus a few teeth.  He freaked a few people out that night.  I think it was fun that he didn't wear them!  Calissa and friends got plenty of candy and everyone had a great time!

 

Halloween night Parker went to a volleyball game at CHS while Travis took the other two trick or treating with Uncle Drew.  I stayed home sick.  It was the first Halloween I've missed trick-or-treating in 16 years!  Now we just need to get rid of all of that candy!

A Very Busy Day!

Last Saturday we had a very busy day!

 Calissa had to leave the house at 6:45 am for her soccer tournament.  Trav went with her.  She had three games, and he reffed five games!  They won all three and will play for 1st place next Saturday.

 Parker had to leave the house at 7:30 to take the ACT test for the first time.  After the ACT test, he had show choir rehearsal until 2 pm!

Conner and I left the house about 8:00 to hit the donut shop, pick up some sandwiches at Subway and then head to his fields for three soccer games and three hours of field marshaling for me.  His team tied the first game (against the hardest team),  and then lost the 2nd two. He plays for 3rd place next Saturday. We all finally made it home about 5:00 pm exhausted.  The kids both played well and we're (mostly) sad that soccer is almost over!

The New Bishop

Trav came into his office on Sunday morning before church and found this sitting at his desk. Good thing it wasn't him or we'd really need a new bishop! It did give him a bit of a scare though and quite a few laughs from others!

 

Happy Halloween Bishop!

Beautiful Sunset

Had to take a picture of this beautiful sunset we had while waiting for Calissa's soccer game to end one night. We sure live in a beautiful place!

Dodger Playoff Game

I unexpectedly got an e-mail from Tim Score (Stake President of the Concord Stake and long-time Dodger fan) saying he and a couple others were heading to L.A. for game 4 of the playoffs between the Dodgers and Braves and they had an extra ticket with my name on it.  Didn't take long to realize it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity so I decided to take a day off work and go on a road trip.

It was only a couple days after getting a tooth extracted and titanium posts put in my jaw for the first step in getting two dental implants.  So, I spent a fair amount of time icing my jaw on the way down to L.A.

Once we got there, we stopped out Outback Steakhouse to get a bite to eat before heading to the stadium.  I passed on the steak since my mouth hurt and had some yummy pasta instead.

We made it to the stadium very early and got to watch a fair amount of batting practice while waiting for the game to start.  We found out on the radio on the way down that Clayton Kershaw would unexpectedly be pitching to try to close out the series for the Dodgers.  We were pretty excited about that!

So, we weren't exactly right on the field but in Dodger Stadium, there really are no bad seats and we had a nice birds-eye view of the stadium.

The Dodgers fell behind in a close game and by the bottom of the eighth, they were still down by one run.  After Yasiel Puig hit a double to start off the inning, the crowd started going crazy.  Then Juan Uribe tried to bunt twice to move Puig to 3rd base and fouled them both off!  We couldn't believe it...  Then, instead of bunting Uribe swung away and hit a 2-run homer to give the Dodgers the lead!

Here is Uribe on the big screen right after the game-winning homer.  All that was left was for Kenley Jansen to come in and get 3 outs.  He struck out the Braves without a problem and the place went ballistic.  I got a video of the last strike but couldn't get it loaded on this post because it's too long.  It was pandemonium and it's awesome I can always say I was at such an epic game.  The Dodgers won the series and then ended up losing in 6 games to the Cardinals in the next round.

Hopefully, next year they can go even farther.