Hockey 2014-2015

Lane had a fun season of hockey this year.  It lasted from November through March 11th!  Whew!  He did really good and learned a lot!  He can skate so well, backwards weaving through cones, impressive to me!  He got a hat-trick award (3 goals in one game).  He says it's his favorite sport, so I guess we will continue it when we get to San Diego!

 Sitting in the penalty box :)

 Getting an award.

Lane in action!

Hockey and Sledding

 We talked Lane into playing hockey this year.  They have a really cool, kinda laid back program here so it was a good environment for him to learn in.  He started in December and has really improved.  At first it was hard for me to watch everyone falling down all the time, but as the season has progressed it's much easier to watch.  In the picture below Lane is the one in the middle with the yellow socks and yellow jersey.

 A picture of Lane setting up to shoot a goal.  He made 3 goals that game and in yesterday's game he made 4 goals!  I am glad we talked him into playing and I think he's glad too.  He will be able to play the next couple years while we are here.

 We haven't had much snow this year but a couple weeks ago we got a good covering and it stuck around for over a week.  Estelle loves to sled down the driveway.  So we get some exercise going up and down the driveway.  We live in a very quiet cul de sac so there is almost no traffic.  Perfect for sledding into the road :)  Estelle has been quite entertaining lately.  She likes to use words like genius, ridiculous, gross, yuck, amazing.  And she is the bad word monitor around our house.  It only took a couple times of me washing her mouth out with soap for her to realize that she too could yell at everyone if they say bad words.  So if you come to our house and say, shut up, stupid, dumb (or a variety of other words...) you can expect to be reprimanded!

Football!

 

 Lane has wanted to play football for a couple years now, this year he was able to!  He's been at it for a few weeks now, but this was his first game.  He is the youngest on the team, he is in 3rd grade but he's playing with 4th, 5th and 6th graders.  His size fits in with all the other though.

 Lane is number 3, running into the action.

 I can tell he really likes his team and his team and coaches like him too.

The final score, 25-6.  Lane's team did awesome!  

Sadly, Lane had to have surgery this week.  We flew over to Anchorage on Wednesday and on Thursday he had a small hernia repaired.  We had had this planned since June but it was right in the middle of football season.  The season here is really short so by the time he can play again there will only be a week left.  But he's learned a lot and I think we've figured out that football is his sport!  His surgery went really smoothly and he's recovering great!