Cory's First Soccer Game

Cory, my sports kid, decided this year that he wanted to try his hand at soccer. He played once when he was 3 years old and had no interest to play again. Now I guess he does! After two really entertaining practices last week (where no on knew what they were doing) it was time for his first game. They scheduled the game at 8:30 in the morning so that was a little interesting. Cory is not a morning person and getting him up was a chore. Then getting him motivated enough to run around that early was another problem. And on top of it all since Anthony recently promoted he had to work Saturday and that did not make Cory happy that his dad missed his first game. Once we got there though he was so excited that being awake that early didn't matter anymore. Then the game started! It was complete chaos on the field and actually pretty funny! The kids were kicking the ball the wrong way and just plain cute! The poor little kids tried so hard but Cory and his team lost 5 to 0. There is always next week! I reminded him that he is just supposed to have fun out there and to my amazment he said he did have fun even though they didn't make any goals.

First Detention

Yesterday was Cory's first after school detention. He is 8 years old! I was surprised to get a call last Friday from Cory in a complete panic. At first the mother part in me was thinking that he was hurt. He was crying hysterically and I could not get a straight answer out of him as to why he was calling me at work. Finally I had to ask him to put his teacher on the phone. She went on to tell me that he was being given a after school detention because he was talking during lunch. Sounds silly I know! The classes were being to loud and rowdy so they were not allowed to get up from their seats or talk during their lunch. My son being the chatter box that he is just couldn't sit still and not talk. Hopefully this will be the last detention that he gets but we will see!

Horizon Prom 2010

A couple of years back my dad got really into taking photographs (he has to have many hobbies!) After attending a few classes he decided to starting taking portraits. He has since had the opportunity to take Horizon High School's Homecoming and Prom Portraits. He has to have an assistant of course and that is me! This event I roped Anthony into coming along so that it would be more organized. So here we are at Prom! Felt kind of weird for both of us. The students looked like little kids and acted even younger. I have been out of school for 12 years and Anthony has been out of school for 20 years so it was definitly a different evening for us!

To Catch Everyone Up!

I am new to this whole blogging thing but thought I would take a minute to catch everyone up that I have been out of touch with for awhile. I met my husband, Anthony, at work in 2001. We started out as friends and that blossomed into a relashionship over time. Anthony is my complete oposite...funny and carefree. Not too long after we started dating both of us were suprised to find out that I was pregnant. I was terrified, he was estatic. Needless to say over time the idea of being a mother became less scary and more exciting. We welcomed Cory Joseph into our family in March of 2002. After much convincing on Anthony's part (I have been told many times that I am hard to deal with at times) we decided to take the plunge and get married. Anthony and I were married in Thornton, CO on September 10, 2002. We stayed in Thornton raising our son until we decided to buy a home. We had a house built and moved to Brighton, CO (it seemed like it was out in the sticks at that time) in the summer of 2005. We hit a bumpy patch medically starting in January of 08'. First Anthony had an umbilical hernia that required surgery in Jan 08', then he had gastric lap banding in August of 08' (he has lost 123lbs! I put in a before after after picture), and finally his apendix burst in Sept 09' which required emergancy surgery. Since then we have been busy raising our son and working like everyone else. Anthony and I both still work for Lightning Ventures, Inc. Anthony is the Assistant Transportation Manager and drives a truck and I run the office at our Henderson Facility. Cory keeps us busy with sports and just being a goofy kid. I am glad that I listened to my husband and got over the fear of being a failure as a mom because Cory is the best thing that ever happend to me.