Ouch

I played soccer last night- two games. First it was completely fun. Our regular goalie was out so I played goalie in the first game. (we lost) then I stayed and played with another team- we lost. In the middle of the game I was tackled- pretty hard. I had the ball and was running full speed when someone's foot tripped me. I am sure it was unintentional but still I went down- hard. I slid on my knee and kinda rolled. I heard a few of the other players gasp. It was me though so I quickly said I was fine and hopped up. I was fine- I kept playing. Then at halftime we took a break and I was standing against the wall by our bench- thinking how gross it was that there was blood on the wall- ooops it was MY blood. Of course we had no band aids by the bench so I squirted some of my water on it and called it good. Then I finished playing. So I get home- with blood down my leg. I actually got a little pity and Mitch told me to clean it up right away "because you don't know what kind of bacteria is in the turf". Then today I was looking at tiff's blog and there is a picture of her knee with a turf burn. She is playing soccer now too.

I went to work for a while yesterday and tried to get as much done in my classroom as possible- arranging the furniture and doing the bulletin boards. I want to get as much done as I can before we officially go back next week. I have going in and being there for like 12-13 hours everyday for a week. I would like to have next week for lesson planning and that type of thing. Joelle has a job. She is going t be in my classroom next week and has offered to babysit for the other teachers- I remember how it was looking for someone to watch Joelle while I was sitting in those meetings before school started.

We were also quite excited yesterday to see a hummingbird! I got a feeder a while back, and had noticed that the liquid was going down, but thought maybe it was evaporating as we hadn't seen anything- well we have a hummingbird. Joelle thought it was cool and we got photographic evidence for Mitch who thought we were nuts for putting up the feeder.

Joelle was supposed to golf today but due to thunder and lightning we stayed home. She wasn't too upset as she hasn't been enjoying golf camp much.
We have been quite busy. I have cleaned the house and washed the walls down. Most of the wall that is, but I am calling it done. We really enjoyed Phantom on Thursday. Joelle says it is now her favorite musical which puts it above Wicked. That says a lot cause she loved Wicked. Mitch and I were discussing the fact that when she is old enough and wants to date- it will be hard for a guy to impress her.
We had Tom and Suzy and the girls over on Friday night. It was good to see them and the kids had fun. We made carne asada and it turned out real good. I also did cowboy beans and homemade potato salad.
Saturday night Joelle stayed over at Dani and Sarah's and Mitch went to see his friend Scott's band. Mitch and Dustin wanted me to come, but it was like 100 degrees and I was looking forward to being home all alone. It is rare that I have the house to myself. So they went and I relaxed. It was nice.
On Sunday we went over to Mike and Kerry's.They have a Traeger pellet grill so Mitch was pretty excited to see that! The meat was really good and Kerry said that last week they had smoked a turkey. Mitch now has 'smoker envy'.
I think Joelle and I are going to head in to school today. It is raining so it won't be hot at OLL and it will be a good time to start getting things set up.