Tuesday, December 11, 2007

KN2

Your Kid Nation update....

This weekend's soccer

Last weekend had Christopher's team playing a 'house' team from Soccer-zone (a team made up of random individuals, not an organized team like the Okemos Cheetahs....Christopher and Matthew played on house teams last year). This house team didn't really show up, so, Matthew and Austen from the younger team helped them out.

Matthew's team had two games, they won on Saturday and were crushed like grapes in Sunday's game. Our opponents from Sunday have practiced together for about a year now and doesn't really have any weak players and it shows. Their good players, however, push (push isn't the right word...forearms might be better) quite a bit and Matthew took quite a beating. One of the downsides of editing all of this video is I had the chance to go back and see all of that pushing.....

Here's Christopher's video....pay close attention at the beginning, Christopher will tell you exactly what the other team's problem was after the referee blew the whistle to start....


Monday, December 10, 2007

More viola

don't want anybody to go into withdrawal without a daily dose of orchestra music! Here's Kevin's recital from yesterday.

This *will* be the end of orchestra video for a while!

By the way, Kevin's viola instructor is the gentleman playing the harmony with him.

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Friday, December 7, 2007

This Weekend

Busy Weekend on deck:

Kevin - Basketball Practice Friday night, Viola Recital Sunday
Matthew - Soccer Saturday, Soccer Sunday
Christopher - Soccer Saturday

plus "Spamalot" on Saturday night....and, of course, Steelers, Steelers, Steelers on Sunday.

3rd of 5 from Wednesday below.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Winter Concert - Suite Francaise

The lighting, for some reason, in the Chippewa Middle School Auditorium was horrible. That, and Kevin's seating position, precluded a lot of close-in views of him for the rest of the pieces.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Winter Concert - Song #1

The 5th grade strings performed first, then the 6th grade orchestra.....simply amazing how much better the kids are after a year of instruction!

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Rice (not Jerry, or Anne, or even Condoleezza)

1) How any grains of rice appeared in my order of General Tso's chicken today?

2) How much higher will Melanie's score be than mine (41?)

http://www.freerice.com/



Sunday, December 2, 2007

Look Up!

Look up....the top of the page, on the left. See it, the "next blog" link?

I've discovered two things recently.

1) www.sitemeter.com. You can see the little icon for it on the lower right of my blog underneath Christopher's tiger face. This site allows me to track how many visits the blog gets and, roughly, where that person visited from.

2) that "next blog" button, I think, gets the blog some strange visitors. Our most recent guest hails from:

Location
Continent : Europe
Country : Italy (Facts)
State/Region : Lombardia
City : Treviglio
Lat/Long : 45.5167, 9.5833 (Map)

Buon giorno!

From the Sports Desk

Christopher ends up on the wrong end of a 6-2 defeat....team played really well though!



Matthew's team defeats the other U6 team from Okemos




No highlights from Christopher's team from the game on Sunday....lost 18-1!