Christmas Break Part 1

Our Christmas break has started off with a BANG! On Friday, my first day of vacation, I had to have a double root canal. YIKES! I hate going to the dentist. It is quite possibly my biggest fear in life. I was in the chair for almost 3 hours. It really was quite traumatic, but... I live to tell the tale. On Saturday the girls had a soccer game which they won 2-0. After the game we had a team picnic followed by a parents vs. girls soccer game. It was a blast until Ryan and another dad both went up for a header at the same time and ended up colliding in mid air. We had to take both of them to the ER. Ryan had a huge goose egg on his head and a mild concussion. The other dad ended up with 36 stitches above his left eye.

Oh...just for the record....the parents were winning 4-1 when the collision took place.

We have also been really busy these past few days wrapping presents. Unfortunately the presents we were wrapping weren't ours. They were part of a soccer fundraiser we were doing at Barnes and Noble. Barnes and Noble provides all the gift wrap, tape, scissors, etc,... All we have to do is show up and wrap. We get to keep 100% of the donations we collect. I spent 19 hours over the past 3 days wrapping. Did I mention that I pretty much stink at wrapping? Yeah, well no one really seemed to care. Everyone was so generous and full of Christmas spirit! This is our 3rd year to do the fundraiser and it's a lot of fun. This year we made close to $800. The money we raised is going to help pay for our Vegas tournament in January.



This weekend was so busy that we just got done with our Christmas shopping tonight. Tomorrow is going to be very busy as we pack for our trip to Indiana and get ready for Christmas Eve services at church. Santa will be visiting our house tonight to leave a few presents for the girls. The rest we will share at my parents house tomorrow night with my folks and sister and bro-in-law. We will spend the night there as we have a 6:00am flight on Christmas Day.