Student of the Month

We received a letter from Kayla's high school letting us know that Kayla was chosen as student of the month for academic excellence. Way to go Kayla! You'd never know from some of my previous posts that Kayla is really a great student. They are having a breakfast and awards ceremony this week. I'm super bummed that I will be out of town, but Ryan will go with her. Way to go KK!

Ronched

Kayla informed us yesterday that the sun was "ronched". (That's how she spelled it!) We told her ronched wasn't a word and that maybe she was confusing rancid and raunchy? Either way, it didn't describe the sun. Not believing us (as usual) she decided to look up the word on dictionary.com. With a sense of satisfaction she declared that it was indeed a word and it meant "to be heavily under the influence of marijuana". I don't know where she got that because when Ryan tried to find the word, but couldn't! I guess Kayla still wasn't willing to accept that, so she asked everyone at the soccer banquet if ronched was a word. Most of them just gave her a weird look.

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In the car on the way to the soccer banquet Ryan looks back at Kayla and says...
"Kayla, when you wear a skirt you need to keep your legs closed."
Kayla responds..."Why? I'm wearing sliders!"
Yep and you just showed the whole world what color they are!

Here is Kayla's outfit for her soccer banquet.

The Top....



Now here is the bottom...



Her trademark...socks with sandals. And may I add, socks that don't match. She never wears matching socks.
Now here's the whole look...



She definitely has her own since of style....Gotta love that kid!

Bunny Funny

Kayla and I saw 2 girls walking down the street the other day wearing bunny masks. Kayla said, "Well that has prostitute written all over it." (What??) Kayla: "Yeah...like Play Boy Bunnies....prostitutes!" oh my

President's Day Tournament

The girls' soccer teams participated in the President's Day National tournament this weekend. They played teams from Illinois, Colorado, Florida, St. Louis and Oklahoma. It was an invitation only tournament. Both teams had a win, 2 ties and a loss. A team that Kayla tied, ending up winning the whole tournament. Kayla played great....defense mostly but a little in the midfield. In the last game she strained her hamstring, but a little ice and rest and she will be fine.

Anna had the best weekend she's had in a long time. Lucky for her because there were a ton of college scouts. Anna scored 5 goals (all the goals her team made during the weekend). Her coach said it was her best weekend ever and that the college coaches were buzzing about her. One coach in particular (Division I school) really liked her speed and ability to finish. Another guy wants to fly Anna to N. Cali to meet with the U17 National Coach. We will see what happens with that one.

It was disappointing that we didn't get into the finals, especially when we were so close, but proud of all the Banat girls for their hard work this weekend. Love being back in club and playing some good, competitive soccer.

The Big Game

Saturday was the big game against Sereno. Sereno is our biggest rival and...until this year, they have always come out on top. But things are changing. In the fall Kayla's Banat team beat Sereno and won 1st place in state league season 1. The 2 matched up again last Saturday. It was intense, but Kayla's team pulled out a W and beat Sereno 3-1! Maybe you'll see a new state champion this year....wearing yellow!

Research

Kayla was working on the outline for her research paper and wanted me to help. I pointed out that in an outline you use a Roman numeral one (I) instead of the actual number 1. She got extremely annoyed and told me she couldn't use a Roman Numeral because her keypad doesn't have Roman Numerals!

Then she wanted to know why she had to use Roman numerals when she isn't Roman...she's American.

Workin' On My Fitness

My name is Sta...cy....I've been up in the gym just workin' on my fitness....
Actually I haven't been up in the gym for a long time....so that's why I can barely move today. It's rough going back after being gone for so long. Every muscle from the waist down hurts and after tonight's piyo class, every muscle in my upper body will hurt right along with it. Now if I can just stop drinking so much coke....

Misled

Conversation between Amy and Kayla on their shopping trip today.

Kayla: "Wow that's a big diaper genie! It's bigger than that woman."
Amy: "Kayla, the diaper genie isn't really that big. It's just a picture. If it was that big then how would it fit into this small box."
Kayla: (angrily) "Well that's very misleading!"

Oh my poor sweet child.