Honestly, I don't know where time has gone. Seriously, we started last summer with baseball, a vacation and then it seemed as if we were thrown into football immediately. Football did start the third week of July. I was a bad, I had hoped that the Orange SuperLight team didn't make the playoffs because it was time for hockey to start in October. Well, the Superlights made the playoffs. After the one playoff game, I had the boys stripping down in the parking lot out of football gear, right into putting on their hockey gear because we were against the clock for hockey drills session. Thanks to my hockey husband, Pat Burke, he was waiting at the door to take the kids out of the truck to tie skates. They hit the ice with being only 5 minutes late. That wasn't bad considering we had to drive an hour to get there.
Hockey is in full swing for the Bain Boy's and I just love it! The weekend is spent living at an ice arena and at times you could find us at an open skate. Its a fun way to get a little exercise and have a great time with the boys.
This past summer was an interesting one for me regarding ice skating. I haven't been on ice skates for 15 or 16 years and was scared to death to put them on. Finally, one night, I got enough courage to lace up the skates and hit the ice. All I could think was, "Oh God, PLEASE, PLEASSE, don't let me fall, embarrass myself but more importantly, please protect me from breaking any bones!" After my foot hit the ice, it took a couple times around the arena to feel, OK. Thought, it was coming back to me and wasn't as scared as I was in the beginning. THEN...some PUNK 4 or 5 year old came skating fast and cut me off. I tried to maintain my balance but it didn't work and I wiped out! Although, I hopped right back up and the amazing thing was that I wasn't hurt. However, after four months of that fall, I still think a tweak from the chiropractor is still in order.
My boys are the punk kids now. As of this post, we had gone to open skate at Seven Bridges. At one point, Coulson cut me off, I got nervous because I was afraid of a wipe out. I told him and Logan, they can't do that to me because I'm not all that confident with ice skating yet. They just need to be patient and before you know it, I'll be skating just fine.
Here are some photos of the boys and hockey...
Logan and Coulson at All Seasons Ice Arena waiting for Scooter Hockey.
Coulson and Logan getting ready for their drills sessions.
Tommy Hawk did an open skate with them right before Christmas 2010.
This is my favorite...they had the opportunity to skate at the United Center in April 2010. Logan has #17 on his back and Coulson is wearing #14. That was the day that the Chicago Blackhawks won my heart. They did such an amazing job with all of these kids during a clinic before the Detroit vs Chicago game.Have a great day and my goal is to be more frequent about posting to the blog. Until then..
