my baby and more

i went back over to the Sexton's and visited my little Koa some more. man oh man, does he like those horses! after that, i came home (naturally) just in time to meet hannah. she had a rose, a card, and an oreo ice cream cake. did i mention, earlier today, while i was still at sexton's, hannah Giacalone came over with a cake and a card? and mom made a cake.... i had plenty to eat!

my little baby is so cute! he is calm in the aspect that he doesnt jump all over you, but if i sit down, he will try to get in my lap! and, if i lay dawn, he snuggles up next to me with his head in the crook of my arm or on my stomach!!! too cute!!! he can jun and jog and play though for quite some time, and jumps all over any bugs he sees! he is so brave.... that is how the man who sold him to us described him, brave and fearless! that is what his name means as well, oddly enough! he was trying to get at the horses, but thankfully he has an electric fence! speaking of which, tomorrow before swimming i get to go help train him to not go over it, and soon we start reagular obediance training as well! he is so cute and perfect, i still can not believe he is all mine!!!!

bday

he knows his mommy!!!

isnt he a handsome dog?

taking a run already???

me and my puppy

I GOT A GERMAN SHEPHERD!!!! it is a boy, about 3 months, brown, with a slightly darker saddle looking patch on top. he is calm, but really brave, and can be playful. only problem, i have no idea what to name him!!! look at my side bar and please vote, or comment for me! i already spent a good 3 hours just hanging out with him! since we do not have a big yard at all, and my brother is allergic to dogs, he will stay at grandmother's house, who has 5 acres for him to run around on. My parents put in an invisible fence to keep him safe. now that trey can drive, i have a driver to get me over there any time i want!

tournament

today, i played in my last game ever as a viper!!!!

in the first game, we lost 2-1. that was on friday, at 7:15. we should have won, the reffing was terrible. on one of their goals, they tripped our goalie, kicked it out of her hands, and scored. illeagal times 100! on the other one, the ref called a corner when it was obviously a goal kick. they scored off a set play from there. that team was really physical too, and we all took a few good hits. my hardest was probably getting sandwiched between there stopper and defending mid. ouch. i scored our only goal, off a beautiful shot by lauren grillo. the girls got skillz. she missed just to the outside of the far post, and i managed to get there in the nick of time to finish for her.

in our game today, the team had to forfeit becuase of illegeal players. if not, we would have lost. we only had 11 in both games, and 2 with injuries. a pulled hammy and a bad ankle. the ankle girl couldnt run, so we had to stick her in goal. she wasnt a goalie. lauren had our only goal off a breakaway. she beat a few girls, and finished with a chip shot over the rushing goalie. upper 90. that was my last game ever as a viper, and it was slightly disapointing. only 15 minutes at forward, and i had one cross that should have been finished, no shots. then, a half at mid. mostly defensive. the rest i played at left D.

this game felt almost like high school. beautiful passes, huge legs on girls, that could knock you head off, reffs strict about offsides, and loose about elbows, jursey pulling, pushing, lide tackling from behind, the works. sadly, the ref didnt like me too much again. a girl twice my size started pushing me around, and pulling my shorts, trying to get the ball. the whole time, their players had beat us up, and we had gotten no calls. so, i fought back. i wasnt gonna let her do that to me! the ref came over, and by that time we were both on the ground, in pain, and geting up as fast as we could to do it again. he started yelling, not at her (she flagrently pushed me first) but at me! he said, "hey, you look like your on a UFC fight show! if you dont knock it off now, im gonna card you and send you to the bench! now, you done, or should i just card you up now?" i said i would stop, and he gave us a drop ball, becuase he knew as well as me that she started it. she got to it first, and hit me in the stomach pretty had. i recovered, and cleared it. still though, i have a bad opinion of that ref, although i am suprised he didnt card me then and there!

my summer's story

here is the story of my summer.... swim. workout. lay exhausted for a few hours and carb load. go to an amazingly physical soccer practice (or two later on) and get pushed, shoved, grabbed and kicked. run for punishment bacuase someone was late. get lined up in the goal while the upper classman have about 10 minutes to try and knock our heads off. if you duck, or dont head it, get screamed at. get bruises, and feel amazingly sore. get called freshman, or freshey in a nasty tone by people who happen to be older than you when they tell you to pick up their trash, put the goals up or down, carry the ball or penny bag, or even their soccer bag. after just one week, i already have alot of imsight into my new life. even people that i was friends with in the past now just order me around, and make fun of us. oh well, hopefully it will wear off soon! until then..... ugh.

btw, i will make a post on monday or wednesday saying exactly what we did at workouts and practice, ect. just so you can feel my pain. and try doing it all a few times a week and seeing how you feel!

bday

since i was booked all week, and have a tournament this weekend, we celebrated my birthday with the fam on memorial day. we had langfors, cruzes, us, grammy and grandpa on both sides, and the sextons. as you can tell, it was tons of fun! we went to a pancake breakfast/memorial day service thingey first. vetrens spoke, and after we ate. then, we set up the slip and slide... around 11. at about 2 we stopped for a late lunch cookout style. then, we got back on the slip and slide til probably 5:30 or 6! mixed in there somewhere is presents and cake for me! many thanks to all! after that, we went to langfords lake property and did smores. it started storming, so we rushed to cruzes. around 9:30 or 10, i went to get my physical done by becker, and he brought me home so i could get some sleep before the big day.

as you can tell by the pics, we had tons of fun! and the commentary for each.... 1. lydia had a thing for holding the hose.... but sometimes she forgot about holding it on the slide!

2. me carter and jared all sliding. the fun part was surfing down.... but sliding worked too.

3. we also would all go in a row and try to hold each others ankles. slightly painful, but fun! just dont let trey go last!!!

4. we had races.... and carter got a head start! i think we were about to start surfing down and see who could go the farthest.

5. this was a very fun game.... someone would slide down as fast as they could, and someone would sit in the middle of the slide waiting. the slider would grab the sitter on the way down, and sling them in front of them.

and look at those arms.... weights are paying off! haha

ouch

man..... farraguts workouts sure are intense! i didn't even have practice yesterday, it was reschedualed for today, 4:30 - 6:30. the weights and swimming alone were enough to throw my body out of wack! and the trip to the pool with friends..... but of course, i'm not sure just how sore i really am, becuase i am covered in little bruises and scrapes from the slip and slide! :)

so today, trey is supposedly driving me to swimming at 9:30 - 11:00. i will leave early for strength and conditioning, and then hang out till practice.

to touch a little on what kind of stuff we did at strength and conditioning, bench press with dumbbells, pull-ups on the ropes, push-up plusses, and more. we also did about 30 minutes of speed drills on the ladders, and jump ropeing. right after that, we did lunges clutching weights to our chests. then, we did the things where you crouch down with your hands and butt touching the floor, then jump as high as you can. and repeat about 10 jor 12 times. then, more lunges. more jumps. then, squats. then, laps around the huge football weight room doing walking lunges. i know we did tons more after that, but i was kind of in the zone, so i dont really remember.... as for abs, we did bicycles, tons of crunches, lifting our feet up straight and doing a crunch to reach them, cross crunches, i could go on. we have to do this tuesday wednesday thursday of this week, though normally the tuesday will be monday. fun, fun, fun!

all good

wow, crazy day! around 2, or 2:30, not exactly sure when, mom called me and trey downstairs, to tell us Lori was in an accident, they thought she was okay, but they were going down to make sure. Scott was already at the hospital with lydia because she has been having breathing problems. she has been hospitalized since yesterday around noon. so, he could not go to get her. in the end, my parents discovered that she was fine, and traded "posts" with Scott so he could go home with lori. they are still there, but should be home shortly. i am glad it all turned out okay.... that could have been really bad!

btw, Lydia is there 2nd youngest child. she is what, 2, maybe 2 and a half ? but she seems much older! in picture, which is the day of our make-up for the make-up easter egg hunt at Grammy's, she is bottom middle. in the other one, she is kissing Grandpa Barber

correction

good news! CC starts june 8th, i was looking at track info! it is monday wednesday friday mornings 7:30 to 9, so i could go before swimming, and get a ride. that will be hard, run 4 miles or so, swim for an hour and a half, then go lift weights and undoubtedly have to run afterwards, long distance or sprints! oh well!

crazy

wow, i just found out my schedule for soccer for the the next week or so. at farragut, apparently they take it a week at a time. monday, is my day off. i have a pancake breakfast, and soccer practice for the elite tournament .

tuesday, i have swimming from 9:45 to 11, however, i will be there for the trips by about 8:30. i will leave a few minutes early so that i can be at strength and conditioning by 11. it will probably end between 12:30 and 1. i would imagine that after that we would do something for lunch a a team or class. then, i am free until 5, when i have a practice at the practice feild. any one know which feild that is? i dont! i also dont know how long practice is, but i would guess 7:30 or 8 is when it would end. idk how that is going to work, because i think that track/cc practice (recommended by coach) is from 6:30 to 8. hmm.... maybe i misunderstood the starting date, and next week practice times will change....i want to run if possible throughout the day if i did, and probably take a nap! haha. sadly, i heard from courtney isom (who has friends on the team) that yes indeed, as we get closer to tryouts, and past tryouts, we will have 2 a days that last up to 3 hours. fun.

the same on wednesday, but with no track/cc workouts. on thursday, it is possible that i will have track/cc again, as well as elite practice. i will have to figure something out, because i have alot of confliction with my schedule. friday i should not have wieghts or cc/track, surely meaning longer practice. or scrimmage. and a good opportunity to run. joy. saturday i might have a track/cc meet from 8-1, unless this stuff starts next week, which is very possible. i am crossing my fingers. i know that the intensity of high school workouts are extreme. i was shell shocked with the first stuff.... i will need time for my body to adjust!!!!

besides that, saturday is the day before my birthday, so i will probably do something, like dinner. sunday, of course, is my day off, as my mormon friends know. i also have to find out when basketball stuff is going on. dad is looking in to that. i believe trey had it most every morning.... and if i am doing CC, that may be starting.... but right now i am starting to have more doubts, mostly because of over exherting myself! jk, that could nver happen!

man, i dont know what i am going to do with so many of these high level workouts! they are a new level, compared to what i am used to! i am going to have no life, i will be so tired!

summer

its finally summer!!!!! until tuesday, i get to just relax, be lazy, run, and go to soccer practices. then, starting tuesday, i also have swim practices. oh joy!!! also on tuesday, farragut high school workouts/scrimmages/practices start for the summer. not sure when strength and conditioning for coach Pate start, or the possible Knoxville track and CC starts. but, at least i get a few days!

as for EFY, i am hopefully going the last week in june, which is a dead period. no promises, but tis worth a shot! tthe next two weeks after that would be oak island and then Girls camp.

road block

i finally passed a major block i was having, by a longshot. i could not run the 4 miles without stopping...not that i had really tried. i finally just did it, and it was not bad at all. if it hadnt been so dark, i would have done another mile, at least. i am very happy about this, because i had been getting kind of lazy about my running. now, i know that i am in good shape for "the run". better than numerous other fresheys i know that cant even run 1.5 miles. feeling pretty good about soccer, but i better get my shot back before tryouts!

choices

im probably not going to EFY..... again. i have soccer that week, and i am already missing 2 weeks of stuff for girls camp and oak island. 3 weeks is just too much to miss over one summer..... it could jepordize my chances of making the team. at the same time, i want to go really badly. of course, i can go next year, and even be in a group with a friend.... i have to decide what i am doing by thursday night and i only found out wednesday night! any advice?

EFY

i am going to EFY! its at BYU, and i leave on my b-day! for the family out west, mom is going to be asking you soon about me staying with you for 2 days afterwards... i would only miss a saturday work out or two... none on sunday! i am soooooo excited!!!!!!! see you all soon!

so sad....

today...well, yesterday... was our last practice with Allie Davis. shes moving to Alabama, leaving right after school on Thursday. it was kind of funny though, because all of her soccer clothes were packed. she came in jeans, a neon yellow shirt, and converse. hey, at least it wasnt skinny jeans! but any way, that is so her.... well, we will all miss her a ton, both on and off the feild. thankfully for the rest of the team, she will be going to the big elite tournament in June. she is gonna come up here, and it sounds like them and some other girls are all driving up. sadly, i will not be there. i see her on the bus, but after Thursday moning, its goodbye Davis! anyway, we will all miss her tons; its always hard to move, but she will do great!

bye davis, i love you!

the weekend

on friday, we had some interesting stuff happen. first, there was the random weapon shearch. then, we got lectured by the crying Mrs. Rehder for about an hour, counting the time we had to write apology letters, and then we headed off to feild day. i was going to run the mile, but since we were over an hour late to feild day, i missed it. so, we sat in the hot hot hot sun for 3 or 4 hours. after we all had hideous sunburns on the half of our bodies that were facing the sun, we strolled back to the middle school. we sat in homeroom for a little over an hour eating parfays and getting our homeroom-mates to sign our year books. then we headed outside to get the rest of the school to sign them to see some examples of what people said, go to "burn baby burn" at the blog http://www.sunshinemaniac.blogspot.com/



on saturday, connor and tanners team lost 5-2. hard loss. tanner, jakari, and brandon were all at the point of tears, or crying. that other team was nasty! poor brandon, they specifically called him names extremely loudly. hes a tough ked, he ignored it for a while, but hes only 8.....



we were going to go to Dustins game. it was Farragut against some little school they had beaten 4-0 in the regular season. in the tournament though, we won in overtime.



my game was played against jon greene's team, who we beat either 3 or 4 to 0. there is some controversy. we (i) didnt play a fantastic game, but some of it, like people missing shots of my assists, wasnt my fault. i just hope i get my shot back before May 27, the first FHS soccer scrimmage.



more detail about the game, Jordan had two great goals, an d Kit had a marvelous one. jordans came from her just dribbling around a few people and getting off a shot, or her getting it out of traffic and nailing it in the opposite corner. Kits came as a midfeilder. she was so far out, no one even realized it was a shot until it was in the goal. we all assumed it was a breakaway cross! also, i thought Abbey had a goal, off a cross by yours truely, but i cant really remember. i was in the zone. i have heard different stories on it.

soccer

hard loss today. we played Paredes team, which has maraya futcher, jordan butler, chealsey beifelt, sarah gaurd, and alyssa far. they had 13 players and played with 11, like normal. we had 9. we only lost 2-1, but we should have won. i had 2 crosses that could have been converted, as did others. i played terribly, missing at least 2, maybe 3 good shots. i did make our only goal of the game in the middle of the second half. Kendall Bard set me up with a beautiful lead through pass. i only had to beat 1 or two ladies and the keeper.

of course, i play badly when i play people i know! however, Jordan Butler did a great job for them in goal, and i was impressed with Maraya! that gurl can play when she gets down to it, and she hit me pretty good a few times, not at all like her! :-) on our side, Allie Davis rocked it for us! that gurl is amazing, stepping up for us like that! Jordan Keane was our stud defender with Kit gone, and Hannah stepped up as a mid. i played left forward the entire game. they were a physical team, and i think we are all gonna have a few bruises. they had a good win, but i cant help but think if we had Kit, Courtney, Kristen, and Lauren, or even just 2 guest players to give us 11..... it would have been different. Oh well!

crazyness

lately has been pretty crazy for me. it is the end of the school year, but i cant really slaow down yet. i still have that huge C-SPAN paper (mines 16 pages) a geology paper in science, an EOC is science, Algebra stuff, Civil War test in social studies..... i am kinda just done with school.

i also have soccer. i am hoping to make JV at Farragut next year, which could be difficult. i am trying to get in shape for the dreaded 6 mile race before tryouts, get my speed up, better my ball handling and touches, play on my team that i am on now, and build muscle. that is something Coach Lindsey (FHS Varsity coach) always stressed to me. he says that incoming Freshman will be undersized, and other players we will compete against will out muscle us. he wants us to be able to be strong enough to hold our own and not get pushed around like dolls on the field. harder than it sounds!

Rain

on monday we had a make up game schudualed at the pellissippi fields. if you are knew to the world of soccer amke up games in our league, they are not cancelled. it is a very rare occasion. so, big suprise, come 5:45 we were on the feild for our game, even though the other team had yet to show up. they were not from around here, obviously! so, while we waited for about an hour for them to show up, we engaged ourselves in many safe, parentally approved activities.

these activities include.... wrestling/running through/making a slip a slip and slide out of the "river" as we called it. it was a river all around the feild, about knee deep of mud and water. you know, in the ravine between all the feilds to keep them seperated. it was not pretty.

while it was pouring, we also simply laid on our backs in the 3-4 inch puddles that consumed over half of the feilds getting mud on our previously bright white unifors, and getting wet.

we also had numerous mud fights. this is both throwing, as well as wiping mud on people. caution: if someone slaps mud of you, specifically your neck and calves and sometines back (target areas) it can be very painful.

the last thing we did was we scrimmaged ourselves. we would put mud on our arms, and when shoulder to shoulder with someone, we would wipe it all over them. or, just push them in the river and take off downfeild. whichever was easier.

dont we sound like a mature team? hey, you gotta admit, there is no way you can say we dont have good team chemistry and bonding!

so, after that we had the actual game, and i got a ride home with Beckers. as we walked up, her mom handed me a plastic bag thing that was cut open, the kind the dry cleaners give you with your clothes, and a wrapped up and hopped in. by the time i got home, the Gibsons, Jacksons, and Greskevitches (sp?) were all in my basement playing games with the rest of my family. i warily creeped down there to say i was home and getting in the shower (i was very late because of that other team) i scampered back upstaris amongst many laughs. but then again, surely they were imagined! why would they laugh at me????!!!!

Patrick

wow. today after church, i went to my Grandparents house, and my uncle Cameron, and cousins Nathaniel and Olivia were there. we hung out and threw football mostly... and almost broke a TV.... but thats beside the point. next, we went to Beckers for cookies. WOW! not only were there endless delicious cookies, a wrestling match between Luke Rainey (age 8) and Dustin Rainey (age 15, almost 16) but Patrick had his new guitar. and man, can that dude play. he played for at least 2 hours straight, all from memory, with singing, never repeating a song. if he hears a song, he can play it. and he hasnt even played for 2 years yet. sometime, i will get a video of him for you guys, you cannot imagine his awsome pure ability. i could just sit and watch him for hours! and thats pretty much what i did.....

soccer

boys game cancelled, my game cancelled. sunday game cancelled, but i wouldnt be in that anyway. soccer blues. instead, i am going to a movie with carter and jared. blog about it later.

cool pictures

this is scott rainey, who lost his middle finger quite a while ago. and now hes pretending to lose it again.

why do guys find pleasure in pretending to seriously damage their friends? i will never know. this is Trey, my Dad, Ty, and Dustin all pretending to kick each other.

above on the left would be connor and tanner lightsaber fighting with who knows what in a tide pool

and of coarse, we have connor executing the perfect dive... off the side of the pool... and hitting his stomach so hard.... poor guy.... but he got 4th out of 5, or something like that, which is not last! he is swimming against his buddy josh ebbert, and 2 or 3 other kids from other teams... you can see one of them...

beach

okay, so one of my favorite things to do is go to the beach woth the Beckers, Meeks, and Raineys. we always get a huge house (but it seems small with so many people!) that is right on the beach, and has a pool. well, when i say always i mean the twice that we have done it!it is tons of fun though, because Hannah, Katy, Broooke, Lauren, and i all shre a room downstairs with a mini fridge and microwave! plus, there are Tyler, Trey, Dustin, Patrick, Andrew, and Cristopher all in another room near us! needless to say, we reswulted to after midnight pranks a few times.... but hey, its all fun and games!

another fun tradition we have is to go to the family owned beach house that we have in oak Island, sometimes bringing people along. we have gone with raineys.... i think twice, and extended family a few times, on both sides. we have also gone alone, with tyler rainey, and with the whites .... i think that covers most peole recent.

so, last time we went with the Raineys, Dustin caught a gator! there is a little swampy area between our house and the beach, which there is a bridge over. cross the bridge and you are on sand. well, he had other ideas. he got some fish heads, a net on a 30-40 foot rope, and a big pole, and i think a baby shark of two to use as bait. we caught many snaping turtles, and an allligator! it wasnt big, probably just 3, maybe three and a half feet.... but it was cool!

we (more like he) tried to get it to fit in this big plastic box that we found, but the lid wouldnt fit on it. so, he just put the net on top, and called everyone down to see it. not the best idea. it go out, right when the moms and little kids came to see it! it was so funny, a bunch of peopleall running around and sceaming, while dustin, ty, and there dad desperatly tried to keep it in there! needless to say, it was a one hit wonder. after that, it was kicked off the edge of the bridge by yours truelly. but thats just because we didnt want it to fall so far as a baby, and it wouldnt let go of the net, so we igured it could go off its own accord. it didnt. it got a little too close for comfort for me, so i let it go flying!

i wish i could claim credit for this amazing adventure, but i cannot. he did it all. i tried.... but i just couldnt get that gator to go in the net! but i did catch a turtle or two, and helped get one that was so huge! i thought it was a sea turtle, it must have been 3 or 4 feet around! but sadly, we couldnt lift it up to the bridge. :-(

p.s pictures were taken june or july of 2007. they are of... A. connor holding a shark.

B. Dustin jumping over Tyler and Trey. and C. Sydney and Austin Rainey jumping over the edge of the hot tub. which is filled with about 15 people.

our friday game

earlier today, our team had a game out at Oak Ridge. After successfully finding the field, we had team warm-ups and stretching, and got checked out by the refs. after the customary shingaurd/earring check, we were suprised to here him announce that no braclets were allowed.... including hair bands, string things, and the braclet i got at Niagra Falls! (green and light green) well, you cannot take those things off, so i found someone with shingaurd tape, and threw some over it. that way, it was taped to my wrist.... no ones finger coulda gotten in that thing to get broken if they had tried!

the rain started. of coarse! for the first few minutes of the game, it was raining pretty hard, but not pouring. that was all we needed, i got a pass in the corner around the 18 yard line, my hotspot. i had a shot that hit the upper cross bar at an angle so that it didnt go in, but it bounced right in front of the goal. thankfully, a defender on the other team go frantic in her attempts to clear it, and ended up handballing it. our right forward, Lauren, converted with ease. after that, it started raining pretty hard. lots of families retreated to cars, and watched in safty while we continued to play. we got another goal scored about 15 minutes into the first, by Lizzy Keane, the center-mid. very nice shot. now, it was getting frantic. both sides were resulting to even more physical play than usual, with lots of back pushing, shirt tugging, ankle kicking soccery goodness. unfortunatly, the ball rolled soooooo fast across that flat wet grass that we had trouble keeping up! you know how it is.... you feel weighed down by all the rain thats all over you, youre sliping and sliding, and your being pushed..... it makes for slow movement.

the game didnt last long though. no more than 20 minutes into it, we had to break for lightning, and after a while it was still lightning and thundering, so the ref called it off. :-( those kinds of games are my favorites.... nothing fancy, just plain, physical soccer.

so, after the game, the whole family, except trey, went to panaras to eat. i must have been quite a sight, sweaty, soaked, shivering, smelly, and in a white jersey with my socks, shingaurds, and cleats all still on! (it was not raining that hard back in turkey creek)

well, ive got the boys game tommorow at 9:30 *sigh* i guess i will be up early, plus my game tomorrow at 12, so i guess i should stop dwelling in the past on this game and get ready for my next one! blog tomorow about it!