Trinity got back in the winning column with a win over GCA on Tuesday night.  It rained most of the game and was quite chilly – probably only in the low 60’s.  Mom and Dad were quite chilly standing on the sidelines.  Alex played a good game but didn’t get any shots on goal.  It was a close game up until the last few minutes when Matt took a beautiful shot from midfield.  The final score was 3-1.

Trinity lost it’s first soccer game today at home.  The boys played terrible and they were never really in the game – bad passing, too much dribbling and a general lack of good sense.  Alex didn’t really play up to par either, but we did get a couple of good photos and a short video.

Sam got some new shoes last week for his first week of soccer.  Mom got them on super clearance at Dick’s a few weeks ago.  Below is a photo of what they looked like before practice.  Since it had been raining quite a bit last week they definitely didn’t look like that when he came home.

Mom took Sam to this las year and it’s back in town.  This time around they have a Wooly Mammoth, but considering Sam is now 12 years old and it’s about $40 for both of them to go we decided to just relive the memories from the first trip.  Not to mention that Sam would probably be the biggest kid at the event.  🙂

http://www.discoverthedinosaurs.com/Events/greenvillenc.html

Sam may have another entry for next year’s spring art contest.  He captured this Carolina Anole sunbathing on Mom’s Ford Explorer yesterday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_anole

The TCS Tigers are now undefeated on the year at 4-0.  Today’s game was close up until the last about 5 minutes when we scored 2 goals to finish the game at 5-2.  Alex didn’t have any goals in the last game but he did have 2 shots on goal.  In today’s game he had another 2 shots on goal (no scores) and one assist on a beautiful cross pass to Cole who scored off the pass.  Alex had a couple of other beautiful passes but we just couldn’t quite convert.  Alex also received a huge compliment from the coach (who normally doesn’t hand out compliments) about his aggressive and physical play and how he has been keeping them in the games.  We are definitely very proud of his accomplishments thus far this season… and we still have a lot more soccer to go!

  On the way home Mom stopped for the time-honored tradition of photographing the ever growing boys on the mountain.   She took 20 photos and this was the best… unfortunately in all of the others at least one of them looked like Angry Cat.  🙂

Mom, Alex and Sam all drove up to Virginia on Saturday to see Lillian, Beth and Margie.  They stopped in Waynesboro to pick up Nana too. They all spent some time at Sunnyside visiting with Lillian and then went back to Beth and Margie’s house to socialize for a while and have a very nice dinner.  Sam took advantage of the pool and Alex got a great slow motion video of him jumping off the diving board.  It was great to see everyone including the gang in Waynesboro and a short Skype visit with Emma and Seby!

After a little retouching on Sam’s, this is probably the best year we have ever had.  As handsome as the boys are, they just don’t do well with school photos.  

🙂

No goals for Alex today but the Tigers pulled off another victory and are now 2-0.  Alex played little lackluster in the first half, but played much better the second half.  Alex had a couple of opportunities close to the goal but just couldn’t get a good clean shot.  Next game will be next Tuesday as they have Friday off due to Labor day weekend.