Sports

Today's game ended in a tie, 3 to 3. The Kickin' Chickens were down by two goals, stormed back to take the lead, but then gave up the equalizer near the end. Elliot seemed a little more timid this week...not going after the ball as aggressively. He definitely prefers to play defense and try to prevent goals than to try to score them (thought he tries that some too). Here are a few more photos:

Here are some pictures from Elliot's second soccer game. We don't know that they lost again 4 to 3, but Elliot scored and did a good job both offensively and defensively. From the photos you can see that Elliot has the post-goal-scoring celebration down-pat. There's also a picture from the hot air balloon festival where we met the Sitter and Wanous families tonight.

Tonight the boys and I went to a local high school football game. It was kind of boring because there was so few completed passes...mostly just grinding it out with the run. We left after the third quarter with Dow up 14-0. As we were leaving, we saw fire works in the distance and drove around until we found them. They were significant and professional...like from 4th of July of something. Who knows what the ocassion was. They were coming from a fenced in area with a man-made grassy mound all around it that I would guess was a landfill except it doesn't stink and doesn't have plastic bags blown up against the fence. Maybe it's water treatment or something. I'll have to find out. I pulled out the camera and filmed a bit of video right at the finale:

Saturday was Elliot's first soccer game. It was rainy/misty and about 55 deg F, so not the best of conditions. His team is the Kickin' Chickens. They don't keep score, so we don't know that Elliot's team lost 4 to 3. He did score his team's third goal which you can see in the video below (after the pictures). Elliot's goal is toward the end of the video. His reaction after scoring is priceless...joy and excitement.

Week 1 of fantasy football went well for me. I didn't have high expectations (since I was pretty clueless about the whole process beforehand), and they sank even lower when I realized that I had started an inactive player (Steve Smith) because church and the Chinese buffet kept me away from home until well after kick-off. I ended the first week with 20% more points than the next highest team in our league of ten, thanks in large part to Kurt Warner. It can only go down hill from here, but... TOOT TOOT!