A Little Piece of Our Life

Today as I ran on the eliptical machine at the gym, while watching world cup soccer, I realized just how much I LOVE watching soccer! I love watching the talent and skill that the players have and the precision that they use when passing the ball, it's fun to see the triangles form between players as they pass the ball around. I think I may have even shouted out loud a few times during my workout. England won, and I was PUMPED, I've always loved the England team and they play well today. Hope there is another game on tomorrow when I go.

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A little blast from the past for all my blogging friends. The reason I love watching soccer so much is because I played for years, I think from the age of six until the age of twenty one or two. I stopped because I was taking summer courses and they were just interfering with soccer, and I needed to get through university. For my last few years of playing, I was on a team with the same group of girls and we all worked so well together. We played well, and I miss them so much. I hope maybe next summer to start playing again. I know that I'll play again, and that any children I have in the future will play soccer... it's the GREATEST sport!

The picture above is of my soccer team back in the year 2000... I was going into grade twelve, and I think this shot was taken at provincials. I'm in the front on the ground and dad was my coach then... he's standing if you couldn't tell.. that was a GREAT season!

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The following pictures were taken a few weeks ago at a Bing Girls night. Since Meaghan is expecting, and Jason was doing some painting at their house, she needed to get out for the night. So she stayed at the Marriott down town since Peter gets rooms with his travel points there basically for free, anyway so we headed down there to hangout and chat for a bit and then when the other gals arrived we headed out. We went to Salty's on the water front and had a nice meal and some fun girl talk. It was great to hangout with my sister-in-laws and some of our friends, we've planned to start doing this on a more regular basis, we love the guys in the fam, don't get us wrong, but it's always good to have some sister time!

Me and my sister-in-law Sarah... we're going to play soccer together next year- hopefully! My hair looks blah in this shot!

My sister-in-laws Meaghan and Brittany... Chelsey had to miss out on the fun because she was working.

Our good friends Stacey and Akayjah... we saw them at soccer, see the post below!

Sarah's sister and our friend Hannah and her daughter Gabriella, she is just too cute!

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Finally, mom and laura stopped by tonight to pick up some cards I'd made for Laura to take to Utah, it was nice to have them here for a quick visit and I hope they'll come and hangout again sometime soon. I'll post the cards I made in a future post since they haven't been given to the people they were for yet, one of them was something "special". Laura goes away tomorrow and I hope that she has a VERY safe and fun trip. I'm going to miss her around here, she's pretty good at coming over to randomly hangout with me. I'm sure she'll be good and keep us all updated on her many adventures!

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Hope you've been enjoying the regular posts and if you haven't read the other posts from this week, continue reading, there are pictures involved... I try my best to always include pictures. Off to get some sleep, and do some reading before I fall asleep. I'm reading, Jodi Picoult, Second Glance, I'm a huge Picoult fan, I'm not sure if this book ranks in my top five... but I'll let you know when I'm done!