After Billy finished soccer camp, he received a couple of tickets to see the Richmond Kicker’s play. I took both boys to the game and had better weather for playing with my new lense.
We took Billy and Martin to one of the local sports parks where my nephew, Brad, works. Billy tried the batting cage (slow pitch softball) for the first time. He did pretty well for someone who has never had to swing at a softball before.
We were invited to Alex’s birthday (Lenny’s brother) that was held at a local bowling alley. This kids had a lot of fun. Their dad is a *BIG* Redskins fan so we all wore our jerseys!
I have a ton of soccer photos and videos that I still need to go through, but here is the first group…
Billy and I went to see the Richmond Kickers play against Bermuda last weekend. We met Matthew (one of Billy’s friends) and his dad, Pete there. Other than 45 minute rain delay, it was a really fun game. Richmond won 4-1.
Tonight, Billy’s soccer team went to watch the Thomas Dale Knights Varsity Soccer Team take on Hopewell. We arranged for them to play some of the Thomas Dale JV players during halftime.
I put together this video that was shot.
It’s not the best quality (because of the video editing software) but I didn’t want to wait. Enjoy.
If you have trouble viewing it, you can download it:
Timbers_0002.wmv
Around Christmas this year, Billy and I were able to go to a couple of college basketball games. The first game was UVa vs Elon. This was the first time I’ve been to John Paul Jones arena and it was very impressive. The game was fun, but not particularly exciting. Virginia manhandled Elon (as they should have).
The second game we went to was VMI vs the University of Richmond. This game was much more exciting. VMI opened to an early lead which Richmond reduced to 3 point by half time. Richmond took a 10 point lead mid way through the second half that VMI was able to eliminate and take a 1 point lead with 3 minutes left. It came down to the wire with VMI coming up short by 2 by missing a 3 pointer at the buzzer.
Tuesday night, in the middle of the third quarter, Billy scored his first soccer goal. In the league that Billy plays in, they use full size goals since these are six year olds, I’ve been trying to show them that if the get the ball more that four feet off the ground, there isn’t many goalies that will be able to stop it. In the middle of the third quarter, Billy stole the ball and went down the left side of the field. He cut to the inside of one defender and went straight for the goal. About 20 feet out, with only the goalie in his way, he kicked one about six feet high that went right over the goalies head.
With his Under Armour “running” shirt and my GPS running watch on his arm (it was too big for his wrist), Billy ran the First Market Mile Kids Run this morning. I am so proud of him! We ran together and from the start he lead the entire way to the finish. I ran the 10k afterward with less interesting results. I did run into 2 VMI grads, a coworker from Divx, my sister and my nephew. Of course I never did find Steve (the guy I was supposed to run with).
We just finished up Billy’s basketball season.
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