I'm sick of the old posts...

Just to get something new up (cause I'm sick of looking at the old posts!). I have not had time to do much - been sick, out of town, etc. Keldon's club team has won their first three games at the National Cup Soccer Tournament, so they now move on to the quarterfinals this weekend. We had our last overnight stay in lovely Lancaster, CA and I have to say, I will not miss the wind there! Whew! It blew up to 45 miles an hour this past weekend. The wind played that game, but we still won. I don't know how the women in Lancaster keep their hair from turning to straw - yikes! I will post more when I am feeling better - and no, it is not the swine flu!

Another CIF Win!

So, Keldon's soccer coach sent out an email kindly reminding us of the CIF rule of "no noisemakers" at the games. Okay, no noisemakers. Instead, I made 35 of these flags for the parents to wave. Well, it worked, because Keldon's team beat the #2 soccer team in the nation, La Costa Canyon, in a nail biter of a game. They entered overtime tied 3-3 (Keldon scored one of those goals!) and when neither team scored in the extra period the game went to a best-of-five penalty kicks. La Costa Canyon grabbed a 2-0 lead and things were not looking good for Westview. But our goalkeeper stopped their next three shots and we made our next three shots and won the game! The victory caused the Westview fans to erupt while a stunned silence overtook the La Costa crowd. This was their first loss all season.
I am still on a high from the game. I am so happy for Keldon and all his teammates. They were incredible! Now they play Torrey Pines in the finals on Saturday. They beat this team a few weeks back 5-0. Hopefully they can repeat that performance.

CIF Win!

Keldon's team won the first round of CIF (California Interscholastic Federation) playoffs, 3-1, against Grossmont High School here in San Diego. We played on our own field, which was really nice. I brought all my New Years' Eve noisemakers - slappy hands, kazooes and maraccas - all the moms had fun! We made lots of noise every time they scored. They play again on Friday against Poway, who happened to win CIF last year, so they have their work cut out for them. We can do it! GO, WESTVIEW!!!

This is a photo Brad took of Keldon at last night's game (he's #17). He headed it to a player then that player headed it for a goal! It was a beautiful goal.

Keldon, Soccer and College

Keldon's high school soccer team won their league championship - yay! Now they have CIF playoffs starting tonight. We are so excited for them. They are ranked 25th in the nation by the ESPN National Boys Winter Soccer poll and 11th in California. I am the webmaster and Brad takes the varsity team photos. We are getting ready for our soccer banquet on March 18. A fun tradition for the seniors is that the moms make a Senior Board, which is a poster with pictures from the boy's soccer years, from kindergarten on up. We have 14 seniors this year and I'm telling you that some of the moms are really into it, having poster parties to work on them and such. Brad puts together the video of the three teams pictures and I am doing the program, which has photos and bios of all the seniors. It will be a fun banquet. Our VERY LAST ONE!!! Check out their website at http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/pusdwvhs/athletics/WestViewBoyssoccer/Home.


Keldon received his first college acceptance letter, from University of Arizona. He also got a $4,000 scholarship - pretty nice. He was also accepted by UC Riverside and UC Merced - he didn't even apply to those schools, but they need students, I guess. We are waiting for the other colleges now. Did you know that not all colleges require a transcript these days? News to me and I don't like how I found that out. All of the kids in our area were receiving word, via their web accounts, from BYU. My friend, Laura, called and asked if Keldon had heard anything. Her daughter and Keldon were the only ones that hadn't heard. So, Keldon got onto his account, to which he fiercely protects his password, and we saw the word INCOMPLETE - TRANSCRIPT NEEDED. Yikes! How could he overlook something as important as that??? Well, our schools were off last week, so we had to wait an entire week before we could get his transcript and overnight it to BYU, which we did yesterday. I spoke with someone in the Admissions office and they said that they would still consider him but may offer him an alternate admission date like winter - ug! We are anxious to hear. He has applied to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC Davis, UC San Diego, San Jose State, to mention a few, so we are waiting to hear from them, also.

Time to archive that Christmas post!

I really think it is time to change my Christmas post - what do you think???
I wish I had more time to devote to blogging but I just don't right now - not like I'd like to, anyway. I am maintaining 2 websites for the high school and have a client for which I am maintaining a website. I am also in the process of redesigning that website. Then add to that a week (at least!) of being sick with a nasty, wicked virus - I didn't do much of anything, not even sleep. Don't you just hate it when both nostrils are completely plugged? I mean, sleeping and trying to breathe out of your mouth JUST DON'T MIX! I now know how stringy my hair looks after three days of not being washed - ug!
And, AREN'T FRIENDS JUST WONDERFUL?

I had two friends bring me soup - one was homemade cream of mushroom, my favorite! - flowers, fresh fruit and homemade lemonade. I was so touched.
We are also in the middle of high school soccer season, which involves two games a week, a team dinner every other week, team lunches at school (which we Moms take care of), then all the photos and web page updates - it takes a lot of time, but I love it. I will really miss soccer next year when Keldon is in college. That has been the same with each child as they have left home - with Nicole, I missed her Speech and Debate events and music performances; with Amanda, I missed her school play performances and her choir events; with Kim, I missed her softball and volleyball games; with Ethan, I missed his swimming and water polo events; and with Keldon, it will be the soccer I miss.
Keldon received his first college acceptance letter! He has been accepted to University of Arizona with a $4,000 per year scholarship. Who knows if this is where he will go to college, but it is nice to have received at least one acceptance letter. More are to come. He also received an email from UC Riverside saying he was automatically accepted - guess not too many apply to their university, so they come looking for you!