Not only did I have to sit through a horrible blues loss last night, I had to wake this morning to find this picture as the new Facebook cover photo for the Dallas Stars. Take a few minutes playing where’s Waldo and you should find a miserable looking me.
I took Mason to the Stars vs Blues game tonight. I wore my Blues jersey and Mason chose to wear his Stars jersey. He originally was going to wear his Blues one, but after I told him the Blues were on a four game slide he made a wise choice and went with the Stars. We had some pretty good seats behind the Blues bench for a pretty good game…for the Stars. Mason walked away with a tshirt he caught during intermission and a game puck given to him by a fellow Blues fan that was tossed to him from the bench after it was fired in and hit the glass behind the players. To top it off, Mason did his happy dance after game and was photo bombed by an odd twosome of grown men dressed as a mouse and a coyote? They were sober men, dressed as a pink mouse and a coyote. Now that I put this in type, I question why I spent a few minutes talking hockey with them and allowing them anywhere near Mason. 🙂
Today we were blessed to have Kobi return to the homestead for a visit on her drive around the country. She arrived in time to help pick up the boys from school and each reception from the boys was as precious as the other. You can tell they both really missed her a ton, even though she did not return from London with an autograph from the Queen. It didn’t take long before Mason had suckered Kobi into a high stakes game of MASON (think horse) with the mini basketball on the mini hoop. Mason comes up with some rather imaginative shots, including one from the scooter that I had a great video of that I can’t get to work. Oh well, at least Mason can say that he beat Kobi at basketball, he just doesn’t have to mention that her name ends with an I instead of an E.
I’ll work on some more embarrassing videos that can be posted while she is in town.
Today while waiting for my turn to see the orthopedic surgeon about my hockey injured shoulder I decided that the next best sitcom, yet to be written, has to be based on the characters and the things they say and do while waiting in a doctor’s waiting room. Today I found myself wishing that I had my ear buds with me so that I could appear to be listening to music, so as to avoid conversation with anyone, while listening in on their conversations and activities. Some would call it eavesdropping, however given the volume at which they were talking there is no eavesdropping about it. To start off there was the woman playing family feud on her phone with the volume cranked to full and he friend providing assistance over her shoulder trying to help her spell Harvard, unsuccessfully, while apparently being spotted the H–V-RD. Then there was the overweight lady, with the extremely obnoxious and loud ring tone going off for what appeared to be an eternity, but she wasn’t able to answer as she couldn’t reach it in her front pocket while wedged into the wheel chair. Then came in a very well built older man standing about 6’5″ using a walking stick that appeared to be the staff used by Little John in the tales of Robin Hood. This man called everyone young man, in a friendly way, and was an expert on everything from the traffic to local politics to the fine art of jujitsu. Fortunately he gathered the attention of another young man and left me to my observations. Finally there was the middle aged man that thought he was better than everyone else and couldn’t believe he was…oh wait, that was me.
I’m telling you, there is television gold waiting in just about every waiting room. I’m thinking it is time to team together with Angie (first born of two sisters*) for her stories and start reaching out to Hollywood**.
*After referencing Angie in a previous post I was informed that I am no longer to refer to her as my older sister, even though she is.
**Do you still have to go to Hollywood to get a show run? Burbank maybe?
We have added some new pets to the family in the form of fish. Cutler was very excited to name them. So, in no particular order I would like to introduce you to CJ, CJ, CJ, and his other brother CJ. Not sure why, but Cutler has named everyone of them CJ.
While Mason has been playing baseball of some sort since he was four, he has finally started to play kid pitch. This year we decided to play our 8U team up into the 9U rec league so that the kids could get a head start on pitching. I was warned by a lot of people about how boring it will be, but I have actually found these games to be much more enjoyable than the coach pitch games. Part of that may be due to it being recreational and so we can focus more on development, but the other part is largely due to it being actual baseball and watching the kids pitch. It also helps that we are winning. 🙂 This past Saturday Mason took a stab at pitching and he completed 2 innings (the max allowed) and struck out three while giving up 2 earned runs.
You won’t see this much longer…
To help clarify, these stats are sorted by stolen base. AND Mason is the name on top. Perhaps it is his lack of speed that enables the catcher to make it close and thus the stolen base is not labeled as defensive indifference? Either way, he is on top for today. 🙂
What now seems to be an easy fundraiser for St. Jude’s is the preschool trikeathon and Cutler’s was yesterday. Despite his strong desire to ride his big wheel, I managed to persuade him to ride a his bicycle like a “big boy” and so with his helmet pushing down his beautiful feauxhawk he proved to be quite the big boy as he proudly rode around in circles for a solid 10 minutes of fun. Below is a shortened video of those 10 minutes as well as a couple of photos.
I have often considered putting together a golf tournament in an effort to raise funds for our annual Light The Night effort, but then I discovered the Links Fore Leukemia tournament put on by the LLS annually. Last year Cutler was the honored hero and it was my first time playing in it. I shared a video put together by the Stars and their connection with the tournaments honorary chairman, Vernon Fiddler. This year we are back for our second round of love and attention. As part of our involvement a journalist student from the University of North Texas came by for an interview and put together this article on Cutler.
http://llsntx.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-family-of-heroes.html
I already have my awesome foursome together, however if there is anyone looking for a great tournament where all funds go to a great cause, please consider joining us on 5/12. For more information please visit the link below or just reach out to me. I’m also on the advisory board and we are still looking for sponsorships and/or items for the silent auction.
http://ntx.links.llsevent.org/ng/index.cfm/a820344/regPages/pages/?p=121662
Especially not if you plan on pulling over on the way home and passing out in the parking lot of a church preschool to be discovered by the staff when they pull in at 6 am.
Team Fricke 