Soccer season is here!!!

So after 2 years of literally counting the months down to days, Henry played his first career soccer game. They did really well. Infact as we were driving into Logan the day of his first game, we went through Benson, and he said "MOM, SEE THAT FIELD...THAT FIELD IS WHERE I WILL PLAY THE FIRST GAME OF MY SOCCER CAREER LATER TODAY!" only Henry huh lol (And after just 4 games, I feel I HAVE to give a shout out to my mom and dad and say THANK YOU for all you did for me growing up and for all the Saturdays, weekdays and Summer plans you may have given up or tweeked to support me in my athletic ventures through life:) Especially the hundreds of hours my mom gave as she coached me in spring and fall soccer fromU8 through the JV team freshman year "GODOMOFS FOREVER:)". I now realize just how eternal sports or time will seem from here on out, but unlike the Tueller dance reviews I feel that sports will be tolerable and fun to sit and watch:)
Henry is #8, he also sports a white headband (he thinks the Under Armor logo looks like an H for Henry so it works). In all honesty that was purchased due to my 20/20 vision so that I always know where he is at:) Shhh Derek does not know it ;) His team has yet to come up with a real name, but because of a one time joke, he believes that his team name is the NEWTON NEWTS!!! So go NEWTS!!! If you were to ask Henry right now how his team is doing he would say we are at an even .500 we are 2-2 :) lol He has scored his first goal attacthed is a picture of that it is the one where Henry is jumping in the air like John Stockton did when he made "the shot". I will also include many more pics of soccer games since this is dedicated for H and his season. Last Saturday Henry added on to his career goal tally by being one short of a hat trick. He had 2 goals. I thought that it would be fun to encourage not bribe him to score so he receives $1 per goal he scores. I am quickly concluding that I should have started out at like 10 cents per goal:) He likes to go out and practice everyday on some little pug goals we have in the backyard, it is so fun to watch him. So enjoy the pics of Big H in his soccer season. Keep it up Bud!! You're doing AWESOME!!! love ya :)

The pennant!!!!

So I finally got Derek to load the rest of the pictures onto the computer of the game. Here they are Henry and Derek bought the pennant at a FANZZ store on their way down to the game. They were able to get 4 signatures!!!! Wesley Matthews who is a Rookie and a pretty good one too! Otheyus Jeffers who is also a Rookie. Andre Kirilenko (which is hard to see he signed with a silver marker instead of their black one) and the one that Derek and I think is the coolest.........#14 yes, Jeff Hornacek!! Well enjoy the pics :)

Henrys First Jazz Game

For the past 80 days Henry would mark off a day on his Jazz calendar that we received for Christmas. He would also let us know just how many more days there were until he was going to his first Jazz game. Well, that day finally arrived on March 17th 2010 at 3:00 pm Henry and Derek got into the truck and headed down to Salt Lake to the Energy Solutions Arena. They got there early enough to watch some of the players shoot around. And they were also lucky enough to get 4 players autographs!!!! WOW huh? I was just hoping that he would get 1 and consider that lucky but I guess that luck was on his side on St. Patricks Day :) I do not know how to upload pictures from our camera so I will post a later blog with a few more pics and of the pennant that he got the autographs on. Until then you will just have to guess which players signed. LOL Well, Henry will admit that as the game started he was a little nervous for his team he was not sure if they were going to pull it off. Would his first JAZZ game be a loss??? He said he was not sure in the 1st period when the score was 14-6 T-WOLVES but then he said when the Jazz reached 20 points they just started "blowing off" and the wolves had no chance at all. During the game Henry and Dad fed their manly and pre manly appetites and Henry got a pretzel that was bigger than his head and a water bottle that "only cost $4 that is pretty cheap." Some day he will learn that NO that is not very cheap. lol Overall he said that it was way fun, and that he cheered and yelled the whole game. The final score was 122-100. GO JAZZ. He said that he wants to go to another game sometime. He said "Mom, do you think that Santa could bring me tickets again for Christmas?" I said well, you will just have to and see. Henry than asked "Mom do you think that if I am better in 2010, than I was in 2009 Santa will bring me tickets that are closer to the players?" lol Well I guess time will tell and Santa if you read this Henry would love to go to another Jazz game again. Until next time.....