Thursday, August 14, 2008

Busy Weekend Ahead

I had to re-post the following pictures that I took to help keep me calm and get me through my VERY busy weekend...




Get off work, pick up kids, drop off, go back pick up more kids, unload chairs, camera, jackets, blankets...whew, now I get to exercise for 1 hr. This is my life since football started, CRAZY! We leave the house at 8:00 a.m. and don't get home till 8:30 p.m. I am WIPED OUT...today I laid down (my husband was taking the kids to practice for me) right after work, and decided to go to practice later. Well, I fell asleep at around 4:00 pm and didn't wake up until 7:45 pm! I missed practice, the dinner night and taking pictures for the team (I volunteered to be the team photographer...more baby steps, and I write the articles about the games to be published in the local newspaper). I feel a little guilty, but I feel really rested!

Friday, Elijah has Pop Warner practice from 5:30 - 8:00, Jullien who plays on the High School Varsity team, has a scrimmage game at 7:00 pm, and I have to find time to make dinner, (we are getting sick of fast food.) Saturday, Jullien has practice from 9-1, then a Luau for a boy (Luke) on his team who was just diagnosed with a rare blood disease and will be going through chemo and getting a bone marrow transplant beginning Tuesday.

The team will be leaving on Monday to play their first game in Hawaii (Maui) and Luke will not be able to go so they are doing a surprise Luau in his honor. It was really sad because he was COMPLETELY healthy and just got a bloody nose that wouldn't stop bleeding. I can't believe how lives can be changed in an instant. It makes you really put things into perspective. The family and Luke have amazing faith and Luke said he hopes to be an inspiration to the team this year. So I will go over at 12 pm to help set up, then Elijah has a scrimmage game at 4:00 pm. After the game we are going to the Harvest Festival at Anaheim Stadium (a Christian event), with bands and Pastor Greg Laurie will be speaking (he just lost his son last month in a car accident).

So I have a PACKED weekend...lucky I took that nap (I'm already over the guilt) LOL !




4 comments:

~Trish~ said...

So very cool about taking the team photo!! Gosh, you are busy huh girl?? Kyler starts practice on Monday and has it every day for 2 hours. Then games start in a week or so I believe. Luckily I just have one kiddo in sports right now...whew!

Sydney said...

thanks for stopping by my blog! i hope you'll visit again soon!

April said...

Busy, busy! How sad about Luke. A friend of mine just wrote on her blog that she just found out that her brother has a brain tumor and has to get it removed in a couple of weeks. Like you said, life really can change in an instant so we really should live it to the fullest!

Mom said...

I love those pictures. Thank you for sharing.