USA Womans Soccer

Since Thursday of last week I have had a cold and sore throut that I have had to deal with. Its not been fun. Well after a long day saturday with Taits birthday party my body finally shut down. Along with the fact that friday night Derek and I played Tiger Woods golf and yelled a lot. But sunday morning I just felt like pooh! So I stayed home from church because I was sick and so was Kinni. Alicen took off to see her uncles who are in town and to get out of the sick environment. I decided to watch the Womans World Cup- United States vs Brazil.
I had heard it was going to be a tough game for the USA to win. And it lived up to all expectations. What a great game the US played. They scored within the first few minutes, they played tough against a Brazilian team that knew how to flop injuries to get calles better the Manu Ginobili of the Spurs. Any little touch they would drop down hurt. Although the Red card was acceptable.
The US should have won in the 90 minute spand if it wasnt for a bad call by the refs on the goal kick. It was so close of a call that it should never have been made. And what a block by Hope Solo. She is good goalie. I thought for sure that the game was over for the US when Brazil scored again. But that header in the last minutes of the game to send it to a shoot out was awesome (picture above). The USA team really played with heart and soul.
Then to win it in shoot out was awesome. After all the issues the USA had to deal with through the game. It was good to see them come out on top and with a win in against a tough team. I was glad I was able to watch it.

Taitans Birthday Party

Saturday was Taitan's birthday party. Lucky for me, I didn't have to work at my internship so I was able to help Alicen get the party set up and going. For his birthday we decided to get a bouncy house with a slide. Although we had a lot of other issues the bounce house was a hit. We had a picnic for dinner (thanks for Krista and Derek for letting us take over there yard) with hot dogs and all the fixings.
The problems we had were not really anything we could do anything about. The bounce place brought the house over mid morning when the party did not start until 4pm. From mid morning to the end of the night, we had rain which I had to run out deflate the house, undo the blower to get it under the car port. Than the wind picked up as the party started making so we had to deflate the house again and wait for it to get better. Just as the wind got better the power went out for 2 hours. About a half hour before the guy was to pick it up the power came back on. Lucky for us the guy was OK with sticking around, eating some cupcakes and letting his little girl play with the kids for a while longer.
All in all it was a good party. I will tell you what, those bounce house can be a baby sitter. Everyone loved playing in it and didn't want to get out. They could have played in that thing for hours. Even a couple adults got in and jumped around with the kids. We all had a blast. It was a lot of fun. I would recommend a bounce house for any ones birthday.

Always in the spot light.

Last Thursday evening there was a police shooting that took place in Magna. The only reason I knew about it was my dad called me at my internship to let me know that he was not the officer involved. But was the scene doing the after math. I guess lately any shooting that takes place that involves and police officer, my dad calls everyone to make sure that he is OK. Good but funny too.

However, what is funny is the fact that any time pictures are take at the scene from local news cast my dad is always in the photos. Here are two from that shooting that he is on his cell phone. I was told he was talking to me at the time. I just think my dad looks for photo opportunities when ever he can. He is a popular guy. Throughout his 30+ years as a police officer, he has been on local news cast and in the newspaper a couple of times. He just wants to be a celebrity.

SMCC Boxing

Over the weekend, Sorenson Multi-Cultural Center had a boxing tournment in an opportunity to get Boxing back into the Center and get funding to keep it going. As an intern I was able to work the event. Mostly as Security but I was able to watch the bouts. I am not a huge boxing fan but after watching these amatures box it was pretty cool. Plus all my fellow employees were stoked about the whole event.

Our first picture is Alicen singing the National Anthem for the tournment. My boss Sandy asked me if I knew any one that could and would sing. I said my wife sings. Well after that Alicen was the the one to sing. She did really good. We had her practice the night before the bouts and Sandy just lite up once she heard Alicens voice. I think she was a little worried. Alicen did really good. Even though she was out of breath before she got in the ring. She blamed the prego belly. I would have to agree.

Here is a couple more pictures of the actual bouts. The first picture is of two eight year olds fighting. They are not allowed to box until eight years old but can train before. Both kids are only 50 lbs. It was fun to watch them. They both came running out of their corners swinging. Not much technique but it was fun to watch them.
The second picture is of the best fight of the night. I really got a good picture on my phone. The Kid in red (who won) has his right hook swinging, the other kid is on the ropes. It was a good fight. The whole night was good other than one boxer who had the poorest sportsmanship I have ever seen. He won is fight but looked like an idiot after. Kinda sad. The rest show great sportsmanship, most talking and laughing with each other after.
It was a long 5 hours of bouts but I am glad I got my first taste of boxing. The coach at SMCC said any one can box and wants me to try. Not really interested but kinda entertaining. I think I will stick with WWE instead. Just more entertaining to me.

Mr. Roonie is 3 years old!!

Three years today we brought Taitan Kettenring into the world. He is been a great blessing to our family. He brings excitement, adventure and joy into our lives. He also brings a lot of headache as well. He is the best littl boy a father could ask for. He is my little man-ski! I am glad to be his dad. Happy birthday Taitan Bret. Lets hope you enjoy your special day. Continue to be a good boy, brother and son. I love you!!