Super Bowl, a Birthday and Disney!

As I type this I am sitting in the Orlando airport with Sarah waiting to board our flight home from a fantastic five days at the Disney Field Hockey Showcase. Sarah played on IFHCK's U16 Pegasus Elite team, and they had such a great showing. They won their first five games and tied their last one in pool play to advance to the medal round today. They lost against two tough Pennsylvania teams and ended up with a fourth place medal. We are sunburned (after four rainy days the sun came out today!), completely exhausted and dreading school and work tomorrow,  but as I told Sarah, "you play, you pay!" Totally worth it. Highlights were...

Meeting in front of the globe each morning

All the field hockey shopping - we passed on the giant stick

Defending corner shots

Watching the giant big screen between games (all kinds of sports featured!)

The sun finally appeared!

Watching my #99

Tired but happy!

Lots of mother/daughter time

Listening to Coach Yassar give really long, motivating speeches

Medal winners!  Way to go IFHCK!

The weekend before we left for Florida was Super Bowl weekend, and we had a busy weekend of field hockey practices, John's basketball banquet (pictures coming soon!) and of course watching the Seahawks crush the Broncos in the 48th Super Bowl.  We watched the first half up at the club before heading home to watch the end.

The next day was Lawrence's 48th birthday (so THAT'S why his hair is turning so grey!), and the kids were off school for yet another snow day.  Andrew Weis and Lawrence share the same birthday, so we decided to all celebrate together that night with a big dinner at Pat's Steakhouse.  Lawrence and Andrew say that one day we're going to celebrate their birthdays at the Super Bowl (it's always around their birthdays) but until we can all afford that, we'll have to be happy with a fun night out.  Great food with great friends was a perfect way to celebrate!

I can't get over how busy February has become...we leave town on Thursday for a long ski weekend at Copper Mountain.  The next couple of days will be spent getting organized and trying to fit in some school and work before we leave.  Can't complain - too blessed to be stressed!