Emerald Panthers, Game Three

Pablo has bad intentions.

He is a throw-in Jedi.


He commits to goal kicks.

He clears with authority.

He is focused.

We won this one against Ardmore by a lot. After a season-opening loss, the Emerald Panthers are now 2-1.

Shining Emeralds, Game Three: Nina nails the equalizer!

On Wednesday, we learn that Emi has a game at 1:15 in Madill (half an hour west of Ardmore), Pablo has a game at 2 in Ardmore, and Nina has a game at 4 in Ada. We make arrangements for Lisa to drive up from Denton to meet me in Ardmore to help get Pablo to his game while I'm taking Emilio to his in Madill, and Mari stays at home to get Nina to her game in Ada. By Friday, we've learned that Emilio's game has been moved to Ada at 1:30, and Nina's game has been moved to 4 pm in Ardmore. So I tell Lisa we don't need her to come up, and I ask Josh to take Emilio to his game in Ada, while the rest of us go to Ardmore. I get back to Ada just in time for Emilio's game.

Mari and Nina watched Pablo's team win their game 8-0.

After Emi's game concludes, he and I get to Ardmore (an hour's drive south) just in time for Nina's game.

Nina starts at forward.


Great cross. And it might have been a great goal if the grass had been mowed.

Nina had lots of good runs in the first half.

At the end of the first half, we're tied 1-1.

With seconds remaining in the second half, the Emeralds are down 1-2, and I'm taking photos when I realize that Nina is getting in position for a shot. I just manage to switch from photo to video mode when the following takes place:
Strong shot.

Once more in slo-mo . . .

Final score: Emeralds 2, Crazy Cleats 2.

French Fry Friday

At Pigskins. We later delivered a basket of these to Rebecca Nicholson-Weir.

Spring Pablo

Shining Emeralds, Game Two

At the Mabee-Gerrer

This was our save-money-for-the-summer Spring Break.

I got home from Boston on Spring Break Monday. On Spring Break Tuesday, we applied for passports. On Spring Break Wednesday, we made a stop at Penn Square Mall in OK and after stopping for Wendy's Frosties on the way home, made our first family visit to the Mabee-Gerrer Museum at St. Gregory's University in Shawnee. We saw mummies, shrunken heads, cuneiform tablets, a painting by Tintoretto, and many other artifacts and works of art in their small, wide-ranging permanent collection. Afterwards, we spent some time in the campus labyrinth (photos below).

Fearless

I was in Boston with Honors students when Nina got the call up to play in this U-12 game in Ada against the All-County Aftershock. Luckily, Allison Wells was there to take these great shots of the game.

Nina is: Tiger Shark in "Oceans of Fun"

Sunday Nina

Sunday Pablo

Listening to Harry Potter audio books. All day.

Across the Red River for Across the Himalayas

Grandmother and Granddaddy came to Ada for "Across the Himalayas," which inluded the first screening in ECU's seventh annual foreign film festival--a film from Nepal, "The Black Hen,"--a book discussion about "The Inheritance of Loss," by Kiran Desai, and hand-made Nepalese dumplings.

World Citizens in the Bear's Den

The "loser" gave away all his money to a non-profit organization supporting the musical arts and retired in Paris.

Women's March in OKC

Happy Birthday, Dolly!

Dolly turned 71 on Thursday.

Wintersmith Women

The Family's First Cougar of Excellence

This is a once a month award, given to two third graders who go "above and beyond;" who model exemplary character traits, including friendliness, kindness, and responsibility; and who "do their best, even when no one is looking."

Hello, 2017