It has been a great year for us and while we seem to be extremely busy the time is filled with stuff we love and have chosen to focus our energies on, so life is good! Soccer trips, sports, the cabin, Graeme on an exchange to Quebec, sports, sports and more sports.... it all seems a bit of a blur but here is my best attempt at the year that was for us.
Spring Break was spent at our place in Mesa. It was the first time the boys and I had actually been there so we were pretty excited to do some exploring. The trip was made even better as our good friends the Martins joined us for two weeks. Mesa was everything I could want in a holiday and more. Steve Nash and the Suns, the Phoenix Coyotes, Chicago Cubs spring training, NCAA basketball March Madness, cheap beer, Wine at Costco, mountain hikes, sunny runs, good friends and happy hour that starts at 11:00 AM. Yah, it was good!! In fact it was so good we have worked it with some summer work, athletic coordinating and spring break that we will spending three weeks there this March. Tough to miss that lovely March Prince George Weather but we will have to tough it out with the smell of eucalyptus instead of melting dog pooh in the air.
Of course we did have to arrange our travel plans around soccer as that has become our life with the boys heavily involved in anything with a ball. It was a busy but great year on the fields and courts. Connor and Graeme were busy most of the year with soccer tournaments all over BC and loving it. Connor was especially happy as this year he got a chance to play with the older boys and was able to go to a few out of town tournaments which made him feel like he had moved into the big leagues. It really was a great sports year with great group of kids and lots of success on and off the field. Both boys are also playing basketball and volleyball as well which of course means Marla and I are coaching soccer, basketball and volleyball. Really I am not sure who enjoys it more the boys or Marla and I. Hanging out with your kids playing sports is not a bad way to spend your time. 
In between the soccer sessions the summer was spent at the lake were we finally got repaid for enduring the previous year's lack of sun and heat. I was lucky as I bought a new boat in October so it was a little easier to sell as "an investment" to Marla while she was floating around with a cooler in hand at +30. It really was a fantastic year at the lake, great weather, lots of friends and family visiting and we finally saw the realization of our backyard soccer pitch come to life. Ya, like I said the boys really like soccer.
The fall has been a bit crazy as Graeme started high school and I started a new job. I am still at PGSS in the mornings but the afternoon I am the teacher with the Canadian Sport School Northern B.C.. It is a nice change and gives me the best of both worlds between school and the gym and since it is a new project I get a hand in shaping how things will progress. Graeme has had a great start to high school playing Junior volleyball, basketball and soccer while doing very well in his classes and making the honour roll all while still playing academy soccer 3 times a week and club volleyball. The only issue is he complains about being tired all the time. I am not sure what that is about, must be a teenage thing.
Marla is still at College Heights counselling and having a very good year but getting grief from the kids for coaching at Duchess Park ;-)
Connor, well the best way to describe how things are going for Connor is for you to picture a grade 5 King of Kensington. Yup. He pretty much has life under control. Loving his class, his teacher, mini sticks with his buddies, soccer, sleep overs with his aunties, choir, and straight A's. It is all good in Connor's world.
Since it is now approaching noon on Christmas eve, I better end this greeting if I am going to get it posted before Christmas. Marla, Graeme, Connor and I wish you a merry Christmas and happy holidays and we are thinking of you.
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