Well, we survived the first week of school! AJ survived his first tournament on the high school team, Alli seems to be getting into the routine, and hopefully, things will calm down just a bit!

AJ's team (U-Prep JV) took second at the tournament in Quincy. They lost out to Foothill (high school out in Palo Cedro that pulls kids from the East side of Redding, too.) AJ said that the refs were awful - they allowed the game to get too rough. Their goalie was roughed up quite a bit - which isn't supposed to happen. AJ didn't get too injured, but he is bigger than most, so they may leave him alone (our goalie is a freshman, and pretty small.) The goalie was pretty sore when I picked AJ up at 9:30 last night. He caught a couple of hard kicks to his chest (????). All the boys were tired and sore - riding for 3 hours after playing stiffened them all up. AJ hasn't gotten up yet today, so we will see how he is later. He was pretty tired last night!

The VCR for Alli's TV broke last week, and Ralph spent an hour on-line yesterday finding one that would work, and we got it home and all set up (another hour + to get all those wires in the right spot!) and it doesn't work. He is going to take it back today, and order one on-line and have it shipped to us. We have a problem with the newer VCR's because we have an older TV, and they aren't built the same any more. Even this one that he bought won't be able to record from the TV after February nest year! The one that he ordered will be able to, but it looks like I need to start using the DVD recorder instead of the VCR! It will save a lot of space when I get all the VCR's copied over to DVD's! (I know, one more thing on my to-do list!) While we have the VCR out, I need to dust and clean the entertainment center too!