Thanksgiving morning

One of our unwritten Thanksgiving traditions: champaign and sports at the Thorrington's. This year, Shane and Hailey got to take on MLS star John Thorrington in a friendly game of court soccer. It was a tough battle, but Hailey scored the winning goal.

Speedy Cats

Hailey loves playing soccer and gets so excited when its Saturday.  She really improved and dominated most of the games.  This was one of her attacking days. 

 

Hailey’s first real trophy.  She is oh so proud!

Lightning Lizzzards

What a season!  Went from losing half our games to making it to the final 8 in the King of the Hill Tournament.  These boys improved so much and Shane played his butt off every  game.  Shane has his tongue out in most pictures

The coaching staff, Anthony, Jesse and Bernard

The cheering squad, they had so much fun together

The pampering these boys got- if it was hot they got frozen washcloths to wrap around their necks.  If it was cold they got hot washcloths.  And at this game they got hot chocolate!  Thank you WanPing

The boys upset the #3 seed

UCLA Pauley Pavilion

Our accountant is a season ticket holder for UCLA basketball and he was kind enough to give us two tickets to the UCLA vs UCI game. We were so excited to get to see the remodeled Pauley Pavilion. Shane wouldn't get his picture taken with the cheerleaders, but I bribed him into getting his picture with Joe Bruin. The game started at 8:30pm and being a school night, Shane found it a bit difficult to keep his eyes open. He was even a little disappointed when UCI missed two free-throws with the game tied 76-76 and only two seconds left on the clock. But I have to give him credit, he stuck it out to see UCLA win in OT.

Halloween

We had 3 Halloween parties to go to this year and Jesse thought up something different for each one.  He went from Zombie (his makeup was incredible, to an Olympic Athlete to Christian Grey.   I was just a NFL replacement referee and Anastasia Grey.

  

Shane and a bunch of his friends were hobos.

 

Hailey was a Mermaid during the day and Scooby Doo by night.  You will have to use your imagination as i don’t have any pictures and she won’t get back in her costume!

Jennings Oct. visit

The Jennings came to visit during one of our Santa Ana weekends.  We didn’t have a whole lot planned but we did head to the beach.  Here are the girls and Eli and digging

 

Both Shane and Hailey had soccer games so we attended both of their games

Shane and Eli doing what they do best, video games

The girls enjoying being outside

This picture of Lyla reminds me so much of Katie.  If you don’t like that Katie, you can say the same thing about me and Hailey in the next picture!

The girls loved being together

It was a nice visit despite the election!

Family picture

Just found this picture on the computer from Scorpion Bay.  Oh, to be back there!

Jesse’s 37th Birthday

We celebrated Jesse’s birthday at a Halloween party so i was off the hook.  All his friends came in costumes, someone else hosted the party and no clean up for me!  I need to do that more often.  Happy Birthday Bud XOXO

Health office

Hailey has discovered the health office at school. The first time she went she got a scrape on her knee. Then the following week it was some other minor issue. This week she went 2x and came home with this note in her backpack. I asked her why she likes to go and she says so she can miss homework. The funny thing is, is that she only goes during recess, which she loves. Shane has only been once in 5 years because the yard duties made him. Hailey has been 5x in 5 weeks! We just make fun of her and laugh. Hopefully she will understand its a place for wimps and will stop soon!