Beautiful Weekend in KC

You gotta love this time of year - especially when it's in the mid 70's! What a great weekend. Saturday morning Shallen left early for District Band tryouts in St. Joe (about 45 minutes north of us). Steph and I woke up early (I guess our bodies thought it was a work day). We had a nice, quiet breakfast at Perkins. As usual, with weekends, we had a lot of running around to do. We plan to get a family picture taken this next weekend, so we needed to pick up a few pieces of clothing for that. I love the fact that we are still driving around with the windows down. By the way, Shallen made 3rd seat in the District Concert Band!

I finished up the bannister around the front porch...it actually turned out pretty well. I still need to put a 2nd coat of paint on it and finish the hand rail coming up the steps! We also went out and did a little shopping for carpet. We want to replace the upstairs carpet - it's a little dingy now. The intent is to get the house ready for sale in the Spring. We have a lot of painting to do inside from now til then.

Saturday evening, we went to the Wizard's Playoff game. This is our professional soccer team. It was great fun. We had a gentleman sitting behind us who had an english accent...he was hysterical! I think he feels our players are wimps. There were very few sliding tackles and he was pretty critical of the refs and the silly calls they were making. The Wizard's tied Columbus; this sends the playoffs back to Columbus.

Sunday included more of the same. We caught the Chief's game over at Colby's (my middle daughter) while she cut Steph's hair. The Chief's are definately playing better while under the direction of quarterback Tyler Thigpen. The Chiefs are using the spread offense, usually only seen in the college ranks. They also complemented it with a good running attack for some much needed play action (listening to the last couple of sentences, you'd think I knew what I was talking about). Larry Johnson, our embattled running back, is due to perform his game suspension for off-field behavior next week. Honestly, the Chief's are playing just fine without him. Hopefully, following his return, we see a much improved attitude and servant-like qualities from Larry.

We closed out last night going to my cousin's visitation. It was really sad. We saw her husband John and daughter Jen. It's always nice to catch up with relatives...just not the most opportune time. Please continue to pray for this family - they're really going to need God's strength over the next couple of months as they return to a life without my cousin in it!