gatorcast from paul smith

Last night I remembered how to sew.  The last time I did  was when I was 12.   I had originally thought that I never did, but remembered 7th grade at Cutler Ridge Jr. High when I made a soccer ball and a dolphin.  It was in ‘Home Ec’.    I was telling the story to Evan on the way home from Michaels (my new favorite store) after he asked me “Dad, how we were actually going to sew this together?”  I told him I would figure it out.  So the design was completely his and he did most of the cutting, but Dad sewed this old ‘historian” up.  Not too bad, huh?   This is for a play Evan will do at the end of the week at St. Pats.

Here is Evan and a classmate this morning for color wars @ St. Pats.

Evan picked out each piece and especially liked the socks, hair & pants.

Evan played his first soccer game in several years.    Evan and his team have nicknamed him “Super Zero”.  It’s from the idea that he is at LEVEL ZERO in soccer.  He didn’t take it as a negative but rather as incentive to “increase his levels”.  In fact,  he kinda liked it.   Apparently all of Evan’s friends on the team have been playing for more than 4 years together and are quite good.  Evan played with them more than 2 years ago.    He really enjoyed himself and I think he is now higher than level 0.

I took this picture last Wednesday as Evan was getting ready to leave for school.  Both boys are growing up so fast right before my eyes.    Cameron starts GHS next week.

Tonight Evan & I watched Cameron’s St Pats team beat Queen of Peace Academy.  We went down to the Sports Complex in Ocala.  It was the 1st game in a tournament and since we won we get to come tomorrow too.  Yea!  :>  

The kids did great and it was a battle all game.  The weather turned windy & colder, a brisk 65 for all my friends in the North.  Here are a couple of shots of Cameron.