Really Quite Great

Whitney had a soccer game at 8:30 last Saturday morning (#$@!), and it ended up being a fun game our team won 8-0, with Whitney scoring 2 of the goals! Randy was manning the camera for me since I was coaching, but didn't take ANY pictures, what the?!

Landon's game was at 10:45 (a more civilized hour for a Saturday) so Andrew and my parents were able to make it all the way from freakin Eagle Mountain.


Andrew isn't really a sports fan, but he likes family and was enticed by the promise of a post game visit to JCW's for lunch (my dad takes him there every Saturday).


It was fun to have them there to help cheer the team on. We were missing 2 of our 7 players (there are only 6 on the field at a time) so we had to recruit one of the player's younger twin brothers to play or we would have been in big trouble. It was still a tough game, but our guys played great and Landon really gave my parents a show.

I kept my camera in my lap all during Landon's game and kept recording and deleting little moments from the game so I'd have enough room on my memory card for when he scored a goal (or came super close). So I pressed record as Landon was heading toward the goal this time, but thought it hadn't worked (sometimes my camera is difficult), so I didn't realize until loading my pictures and videos onto the computer that I'd actually recorded this moment.

I'm really loud in it, but love how candid my reactions are since I didn't think it was recording, and how fun it is to have this exciting moment on camera. Landon had really fought for that goal and ended up sliding on the ground and kicking it into the back corner of the goal. It was sooooo exciting, and a bit emotional really because I know he really wanted to score while my parents were there.


I was sitting next to Andrew at the time, and he had been telling me to "Stop" or "Quiet Down" as I cheered for Landon and his teammates, so that's why I'm explaining why we're cheering on the video.

Landon and his Eagle Mountain fan club.

After the game, my mom invited Whitney to go to Salt Lake with her to spend the day at Adam and Amy's girls' dance recitals. Whitney was thrilled to get to go to lunch and to spend the day with my mom and to see the girls dance.


We went to JCW's after the game (which is basically payday for Andrew) and sat in one of their ginormous (i.e., Mormon family friendly) booths. Andrew started his meal with a huge Sprite, then moved onto 2 orders of fries (which he takes straight up, no salt or fry sauce), and then finished with an Oreo shake. He's really got a good thing going.


Lori joined us for lunch, so me, Randy, Landon, Lori and my dad hung out for a long time talking (Andrew isn't much of a talker and if he hadn't been blocked in the booth he would have gotten up to leave after about 45 minutes).


Toward the end of our stay he was cracking us up by trying to get in our dad's face to remind him that he wanted to leave.


He kept hugging him, kept putting his finger softly in my dad's ear (I'd never seen him do that before), and kept looking in his face and saying "Papa go". It was rather sweet and oh so amusing.

**Don't you love "life is good" kind of days like this?
Do you get emotional when your kids do their best?
How do you take your fries?**