Milpitas Monsters WIN, 11:2

... and she S-C-O-R-E-S!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lillie Czarnota, wearing the # 10, scored 5 of the 11 goals in todays match against the Milpitas Sharks and was surely one of the MVPs of the game, sharing the honor with the rest of the awesome Milpitas Monsters team!

What a game!!!

We WON! We WON! We WON! We WON! We WON! We WON! We WON! We WON! We WON!

I better get a hold of myself so I can finish this post before the party gets REALLY started :)

Today was the first official game (the other games fell in the water, literally!) but we came, we saw and we conquered! BIG TIME!!(remember mother, MUST STOP BRAGGING!!!)

The team was split up in two groups of 5 and both groups played 5 players of the other team for one hour.
Both of our teams won and won well.
Our coach is quite committed and makes the little people train twice per week for an hour and then games on Saturdays. During practice it's drills, drills and drills and a lot of running.

Don't even ask about the assistant coach, he is a real pain ... he even follows us home to talk soccer at the dinner table (Pat is the assistant coach, if you didn't know that yet :)

Here are a few shots of the Milpitas Soccer Super Stars in action. Enjoy!

The fabulous # 10

Lillie Czarnota

running the ball

Everybody ... after the ball!!!

Please note #11 in the blue jersey, she is a constant on L's side 

and both fought like heck for that ball. 

Check out #11's face, total termination!!!

L has the ball. 

and again ...

and she S-C-O-R-E-S!!!!!

#11 was right there again

Allen, the super ball handler!

hydrate!!!

L and #11 at it again

Strategy chat with the coach

1-2-3 ... GO MONSTERS!!!

L throwing the ball in the game

Lulu on the sidelines, practicing in case they need help :)

9 GOALS!!!

She was finger counting :)

#11 slowing down now, L is taking charge 

#11 and L again ...

#11 right behind L, still trying hard

10!!!!

#11 tries one last time

But she has no chance.

L is scoring goal #11!!!

my proud #10 after her goal :)

WE WON!!!

We did it!!! Applause!!!

Monsters and Sharks shaking hands.

Good game guys!!!

Celebration walk!

Hector, my man :)

H, goes to school with L 

and sits at her table in class.

He is a good buddy of ours!

All in all a wonderful morning.
The kids did so well!
L fell a few times (#11 played a little rough) but got up right away and went for it again.
All kids tried so hard and fought fair and square for the win!

God job MONSTERS!!!

L went off to celebrate the win with a very special Lady.

Her little friend Abby had a b-day party 

and Princess Belle was the guest of honor.

Who would have known. 

What a royal celebration it was!!!

 Lulu showing off her face painting she got from Belle. 

WOW a REAL Princess painted her face.

Just WOW!!!

"I got'em GOOD"

Birthdays-shmirthdays and Valentines-shmalentines ... but April Fools Day, that's a day after my heart!!!

Since last year, April 1st is a new prank tradition in our house and oh what fun we (ehem... I mean I) had today!!! Let me count thy ways ...

There was ...     

The HIT LIST

(written in German, in case the victims would find it and try to read the plan)

The deodorant-meets-cream-cheese scenario

The saran wrapped shampoo bottle 

(nicely hidden under the cap so when the victim would try to use
 it nothing would come out, irregardless how hard he'd shake it)

The frozen car keys

The "No Bradery" sign for Pat's phone invented and created by my junior prankster L

(I am so PROUD of her!!!)

THE BREAKFAST!!!

 Eggs Sunny Side Up

(peach and natural yogurt)

Cereal and milk, nicely frozen over night, topped off with some more milk 

and it looked like regular cereal.
OJ with a straw ... COOL, 

except the straws had holes and didn't work.

The peanut butter covered  door knob and car door handle.

The cotton stuffed toes of the shoes, so the shoes suddenly don't fit anymore

(works VERY well on victims 6 and younger!!!)

L and Lulu trying to get their shoes on ...

still trying ...

What is it???

ahhhh ... cotton ... funny Mama, VERY funny!

The part where we told L that you wear your PJ's to school on April Fools Day

 and she totally believed it until ...

... we got to school and I told her "April Fools".

Luckily Mama had her uniform hidden in her schoolbag and we changed quickly in the bathroom ...

(I also took her to ice cream after school to make up for it since I did feel a bit bad about this one!)

The cockroach in the pencil box.

The hand soap colored with food coloring 

(that one didn't work ... we thought hands would turn and STAY green but nope ... )

The moving of Pat's car at work from the parking spot where he left it, 

to another parking lot a wee bit further away ...

The DINNER

Baked rats and green pasta ... YUMM!!!

Oh ... it looked just disgusting!!!

The pee-juice

(just water with yellow food coloring)

Auntie Michelle's green and pink pasta carabonara (YUMMM!!!)

 AND the SPONGE cake ... literally!!!

YUMMM!!! Let's dig in!

 Lulu: "FROSTING!!!"

What is it???

I can't cut it???

Let's try harder ... hammer it Fifi!!!

Ahhhh ... SPONGE-cake!!! So funny!

... the VERY TIRED victims after a LONG day of pranks and being pranked.

What a FUN day!!!

And now it's time for bed ... pranking makes VERY tired! (... and Stella Artois too :)

Thank God I only have to come up with so much mischief once a year, I don't know how these trouble makes do it all year long? This stuff is hard!!!!

So good night world and have a good weekend!
L has her FIRST soccer game tomorrow. We are soooo excited!

Love is ...

Sleeping, all snuggled up, in your most favorite "lee" ever.

Danke Tante Julia! 

Anna war auch mit unter der Decke :)

Lillie's comment of the day

L sees the new phone we got for the house (still in it's box) on the shelf. We are getting a google-voice line for the house since our AT&T cell phone connection at home SUCKS so badly.

L: OH ... are these the new phones we get?
Mama: Yes, nice ...right?
L: I LOVE it, how many games can we play on it and does it already have movies on it?
M: NO!!! This phone doesn't have games or movies or anything, it's just for talking.
L: What kind of strange phone is that? Why didn't you buy one that works?
M: ... my wonderful iPhone generation child

Embracing my OCD Child!!!

I have always wondered "hmmm ... maybe???"

Little things like laying your outfit of the day out on the floor, with the shirt, pants, socks and underwear ... all in the right place and all MATCHING at ALL times, having your pencils always on the right side of the table and nobody better touch that pencil cup (full with lila pencils na-course) or else, walking randomly through the Supermarket and re-arranging the items on the shelves in the correct order, since some bad guys always mess up the right order, having a 15 minutes, wild and screaming fit if your mom doesn't give you the diaper with all the princesses on and instead gives you the one with just one princess imprinted on the front, having an extreme addiction to everything purple/lila ...
"maybe, just maybe we have a little controlling, slightly OCD issue here ... just maybe" ....

... then came Saturday morning when Lulu asked if she could put the cookies on the baking sheet while I worked on the dishes.
After about 10 minutes of her working way too quietly I turned around and saw this ...

NO, I did NOT tell her to space them out equally 

and NO I did NOT tell her to have them all facing the SAME direction.

So now I am ready to go into the day, happily embracing my slightly OCD child :)