Big Blue Father Daughter Date

On Tuesday night Sarah and Lawrence headed to Lexington for the UK versus Alabama game.  It was Senior Night, and they had fun saying goodbye to Kentucky boys Jon Hood and Jarrod Polson.  I asked Sarah if they took any pictures, and the answer was "no" (whose daughter is she?!), but no worries, because the next day they were on the sports page of the Lexington Herald Leader (our friend Jerry Psimer let us know).  I think it's funny they are the only ones not cheering in the picture,  even though they swear they cheered the whole game.  Sarah does love her Cats, and I bet she was loving her dad too for scoring those sweet seats.

Something New for John

This spring John has decided to try his hand at the game of lacrosse.  Despite its popularity and its rapid growth in our city, neither of our kids have ever shown much interest in it, but something sparked in John a few weeks ago and he has decided to give it a try.  He had his first games on Saturday (a three game play day at South Oldham High School), and he loved it.  He was all ready to play defense (apparently height plays a big factor in being a defender at his age), but toward the middle of the first game they asked him if he would take over the goal for a while.  I was surprised he agreed to this because he had already stated that there was no way he was going to play goalie, because he's heard they basically get the snot beat out of them the entire game, especially when you get to the high school level.  He ended up having a blast and making some great saves.  I don't think it's where he wants to stay, but he had fun trying it out. CAL's A team won 2 of the three games, and their B team only lost 6-5, so I think all in all it was a good first outing.  Now if only the weather would cooperate, we can get going with all these "spring" sports!