Thursday, November 23, 2006






HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2006. HERE ARE THE PHOTOS
OF FUN, FAMILY AND GAMES. WISH YOU ALL COULD
HAVE BEEN HERE BUT, ALAS, THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
WE LOVE YOU ALL AND WISH THE BEST FOR YOU THIS SEASON/
ED AND MARIE GINN
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE.
WE HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY.
nathan, need your address so David can send Brandi´s Christmas gift!!

jeff, need you address to send you Christmas gift! hope you´re having a nice time with mom and dad.

love you all. HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Dad looking like a regular old french man!!
Mom with the SACRED BIBLE!!!














A cute little couple outside of Notre Dame.









Mom and dad with one of the MANY Louis of france!
Good luck Jeff!!

Thanks mom and dad for a great two weeks. Of course I miss you more now after seeing you!

While mom and dad were here we decided to pick names for this years Christmas gifts. Since we haven´t all been together it can´t be "secret", but oh well. Mom picked the names out of a hat so they are totally random.

Person who buys the gift - Person to receive the gift:

DAVID - BRANDI
CINDI - JEFF
DAD - CINDI
MOM - DAVID (it just happened this way, funny huh?! Paris was a great gift!!)
NATHAN - MOM
BRANDI - GINA
BOBBY - DAD
GINA - NATHAN
JEFF - BOBBY

Hope everyone is happy and doing well. Love you all. Really miss you all this holiday season. Hugs and kisses, cindi
ALBANY, Ga. - Iowa Western Community College's women's soccer team tries today to bring home the Reivers' first national championship. The Division I title will be on the line as Iowa Western (20-1-1) meets Young Harris, Ga., Community College (16-1-1) at 5 p.m.

The Reivers, ranked No. 5 nationally, pulled off a pair of upsets to advance to the final. Iowa Western avenged its only loss of the season with a 3-0 win over No. 4 Laramie County in the quarterfinal. A bigger shocker came in the semifinal when Iowa Western ousted No. 1-ranked Monroe Community College on penalty kicks, 4-2, after the teams played a scoreless game through regulation and two 10-minute overtimes.

Young Harris went to form. The No. 2-ranked Mountain Lions topped No. 7 Harford 3-0 in the quarterfinals and beat No. 3 Schoolcraft 2-0 in the semifinals.

Friday, November 17, 2006

Emotions Run High On Second Day

November 17, 2006

It was an emotional day on Friday during the NJCAA Division I Women’s Soccer National Tournament at Darton College. Two teams were eliminated from the tournament while a new national champion will be crowned in 2006.

Monroe (NY) Community College will not be able to defend their title as they were upset by #5 seed Iowa Western Community College. Both teams survived numerous scoring attempts in regulation play but no one was able to manage a goal. Even with overtime, the outcome was the same and it became the second game of the tournament to be decided by penalty kicks. Iowa Western prevailed and will now play for the national championship on Sunday.

In earlier action, Laramie County (WY) Community College got one goal from Shauna Fuentes in the first half and that was all they would need to eliminate Navarro (Texas) College 1 – 0. LCCC will now play Mesa (AZ) Community College for fifth place at noon on Sunday. The Thunderbirds overcame a 2 – 1 deficit at the break and scored three goals in the second half to oust Harford (MD) Community College from the national tournament.

With Monroe’s loss, they will now play Schoolcraft (MI) College for third place. Young Harris (GA) College dropped the Lady Ocelots in the final game of the evening 2 - 0. The Region XVII champion will now face the talented Iowa Western Reivers for the national championship. The game is slated for Sunday at 6 p.m. at the Darton College soccer complex.

Posted By: D. Hardy @ 9:44 pm on Nov 17, 2006
November 17, 2006
First Round Complete At Women’s National Tourney

Photo: Action ShotALBANY, Ga. – The first day of competition for the NJCAA Division I Women’s Soccer National Tournament at Darton College is now complete.

There were no real surprises in the first round as three teams were able to keep their opponent off the scoreboard. Monroe Community College, Iowa Western Community College, and Young Harris College all recorded shutouts in their matches.

The #1 seed Monroe (NY) Tribunes proved to be too much for Navarro College (Texas) as they scored three goals in the second half of play to post a 4–0 victory. The defending national champions now advance to the semi-final game and will meet #5 Iowa Western Community College. The Reivers were led by freshman Kim Olsen who scored two goals in the game to help Iowa Western to a 3 – 0 win over #4 seed Laramie County Community College.

Region XVII champion Young Harris College (Ga.) wasted little time in scoring as Megan Bruso pushed the first score across with less than eight minutes into the game and the Mountain Lions cruised to a convincing 3–0 shutout of #7 seed Harford (Md.) Community College. Newcomer Kennya Cordner sealed the victory for Young Harris with an early goal in the second half.

In the final game of the night, Schoolcraft College (Mich.) met #6 seed Mesa (Ariz.) Community College and struggled to contain the speed of the Thunderbirds early in the first half. Andrea Evans added the first goal for Mesa and it looked like they would take a 1–0 advantage into halftime. With the clock ticking down, Schoolcraft’s Jessica Austin found Stephanie Setaputri at the goal and she made it count with one second to spare before the break to make it 1–1.

The second half was a defensive struggle and the two teams went to overtime. Even with an extra twenty minutes, neither team could find the net. It would come down to penalty kicks and #3 seed Schoolcraft College was able to advance in the best match of the first round.

Second day action resumed on Friday, Nov. 17, with four matches beginning at noon. There are no games scheduled on Saturday. Winners from Friday’s games will advance to Sunday’s competition and the national champion will be crowned that evening. The championship game will begin at 6 p.m.

For game scores and other information throughout each day, visit the Championship Web site at http://njcaasoccer.darton.edu.
Jeff's Womens Soccer team beats #1 Junior College team in the nation in PK's

National Champion Game Sunday



congrats to Jeff ans IWCC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, November 16, 2006

JEFF 's Team WON 3-0
Semifinals Friday at 4pm EST

Way to go JJG
Yesterday -- Gina, Stacia, Landon and Milena were at Kohl's department store. They were at the check out station and the checker was a little on the fem side and talked "different". As Gina and the kids were stepping away, Stacia said in a loud voice to Gina...... "Mom, why does that boy talk like a girl?... Gina was embarrassed and moved quickly out the door.

Anyway here are some more funny things kids have said.


Seven Reasons Not to Mess With Kids


A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.
The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah".
The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?"
The little girl replied, "Then you ask him ".


A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work.
As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.
The girl replied, "I'm drawing God."
The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like."
Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute."


A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.
After explaining the commandment to "honor" thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?"
Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, "Thou shall not kill."


One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.
She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?"
Her mother replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white."
The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, "Momma, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?"


The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.
"Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.'
A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the teacher, she's dead."


A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, "Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face."
"Yes," the class said.
"Then why is it that while I am standing up right in the ordinary position the blood doesn't run into my feet?"
A little fellow shouted, "Cause your feet ain't empty."


The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: "Take only ONE. God is watching."
Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.
A child had written a note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples.
Georgia Day 2

We woke up, had the continental breakfast theat the Wingate hotel provided. At noon we went over to Darton college, took team and individual pictures. Then we trainied, the girls started off sluggish and slow. The girls were a little crabby and had a tough session. Thats what happens when they around each other for 24 hours. The end of the practice got better, they cleaned some stuff up and they began to really click again.

There were three Division 1 coaches there. They pretty much ignored the other team training and were salivating over our players. You know, winning is great, but what I truly feel our job is, is to get our players to the next level (NCAA Division 1). I will be more happy of all 9 sophomores end up going to another school to contine their education with soccer paying for it. A championship is secondary.

After training we came home for about 2 hours. I begn to pour...really poor...like sheets of water! It was just like i remembe carolina rain being at its worst! We had a banquet for all 8 teams. We marched in to a gymnasium as they announced each team, coach and player. We ate, there were some speakers and then we went to the hotel. We had some brief chalk talk. There girls left...I kept my Celtic Storm (Utah) Girls. The girls I have been coaching since they were 13. I sat them all down, thanked them and reminded them of all of the good and bad times that had gotten them to this point. Most of them were balling, but all of them were excited to have 4 more days to have me coach them. it was a great meeting!

Lastly Gary Pulham, his duaghter is on my team, she is one of them that I have coached since she was 13. Gary showed up around 11 and helped us do room checks. He stuck around until midninght and just chatted. he is like a second father to me. I love listening to him talk and be encouraging. He is a very humble and wonderful person. I am glad he is here to share this experience with his daughter and me.

There were nearly 25 parents/family memebers from Utah there and about the same from Iowa. It iw going to be a fun crowd today when we kick off against Laramie County Community College at 2pm.

Here is the tournament web site: http://njcaasoccer.darton.edu/score.php

Love ya!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB!
We hope you have a great day. Enjoy your birthday. Love from all of us here in New Jersey.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Georgia,

I think it is funny that when I went to nationals with UVSC that it was in Georgia, and now I am back as a coach, in Georgia. The ladies have looked sharp and quick the last 9 days of training. They got three days off to let themselve heal after the District Championship and then they got back in to work. Some of our best training sessions have been this past week. The girls are very focused, well disciplined and humbly confident. I am very excited, but more importantly I am trying to just have fun and absorb all of this. I have also relayed to the girls that this is an experience, that they should absorb every emtotion, every trial, every accomplishment and truly have fun away from school. We left this morning at 4 am from Council Bluffs to catch a flight at 9:40 in Kansas City.The flight was direct to Atlanta and then we drove three hours to Albany Georgia, Home of Darton College.

We just returned fron a dynamics stretch and 10 minute run. We do this to get the blood flow again after 12 hours of sitting. We had two girls that had never flown before, and most of them had never been on a subway (there was one in Atlantas airport). The NON LDS Girls were infactuated with the poles on the subway...think about it. The LDS Girls are pretty chill so they rolled with the humor.

We are going to eat tonight, then get up tom. eat, stretch, run and then we have pictures and a training session in the afternoon. I will try to keep a journal at the end of each day. We will be here until Monday morning when we will fly out. I will get back to Iowa Monday at 5 pmish and then 6am on Tuesday I get to fly to California on a recruiting trip..but really to hang with ma and pa and Bobbys family. Pretty much i do not have to see my office for two weeks straight!

Love you all, and miss you all tons.

P.S. Nobody knew what it was when I pointed to the Cotton fields...one asked if it was snow...girls are sorta ditzy. Georgia brings back wonderful memories from my mission...it is nearly identical to North Carolina.
Ok, so the secret is out. I think it is hilarious that you picked up on the resemblance. After Spencer was ready I told him, "You know, if you had a little more eye liner you would look like the lead singer of Green Day." Honestly, this outfit was not that much of a stretch for Spencer. The kid rocks!


Is it just me, or do these two look like long lost brothers??? All Spencer needs is a little more eyeliner. Bryan/Marion is there anything you need to confess??::))) Love ya, Nathan

Monday, November 13, 2006

Good Luck to Jeff and his team at Nationals!!!

Go Reivers!!!!!!!!

Saturday, November 11, 2006

hi all
this is just a note to let you know we made it to Cindis Apt. tonight.
We are hvig a wondeful time. pics will be coming son Ed
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GRANDMA NANA
She would have been
90 years
young today!!
Miss You Lots!!
HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY!
DREW NORMAND IV
LOVE YOU LOTS!!
GRANDMA TATA

Friday, November 10, 2006

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY!!
Guillaume Andre Duffort
(My Little Gee-O-Me-No-Mee)
Love you lots,
Grandma Cass

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Hope your birthday was as good as Stuarts! Love ya Cindi!


Happy Birthday Cindi ! Sorry I missed you this morning. Hope you're have a fabulous time with mom and dad. Play hard! Have Fun! - old lady....

love, Nathan and Family
WOW 21....your getting OLD!!!
Happy Birthday Little Sis!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CINDI!!!
We hope you are having a great time with your parents. Have a wonderful day. Love from all of us.

Monday, November 06, 2006

I had a Gilligan's Island kind of day! (Left for a three hour tour, and stayed a long time!) We left this morning at 9:30 to take Patrice to the train station in Saarbrucken. It's an hour drive there. I thought I'd be back by noon. We missed the train by about 1 minute. So we had to drive further to catch the train at the next possible stop... it turned out to be Mannheim which is an hour and a half further! Luckily we made that train! So I had to turn around and drive all the way home. UGH! We stopped in Kaiserslautern on the way back through to get something to eat. I can't pass up the chance to get good pretzels (the BIG ones) and it's the Lebkucken (traditional spice cookies) time of year so I stocked up on those too. The kids recognized the store we went to so they felt like they had really returned to Germany. The store is right next to a small American Caserne and as we were driving away Margot said, 'Oh, we're in Germany, and there's the American flag!' As if the two normally go hand in hand.
Because Alienor usually comes home for lunch (school is out from 12-1:45) and then goes back to school (MWF afternoons 1:45-3:45) I had to call and have her stay at school and eat at the cafeteria. As it turned out, I just barely got home before her at 4pm!
So that was my whole day... driving! I'm glad I'm flexible!
Hope your day was more productive than mine!
Jocelyn

Left to right: Coach Ginn, Coach Bennett and Coach Silvey
Heading to nationals after winning the NJCAA District C Championship

Sunday, November 05, 2006

The Nortons have some great pictures! I want to request, BOOK OF MORMON STORIES, by the the Von Trapp Family Singers please.

Updating everyone about Soccer. As I posted last week, the men ended thier season and the women continued. Well Saturday the 6th ranked Iowa Western women had to battle #8 Illinois central out of Peoria, Illinois. It was one of the worst games our girls had played all season. They were nervous, their touch on the ball was real bad. Their moveoment as a team was slow in transition. Pretty much we played real bad soccer. However, we did have two bright spots...Our All American Goalk Keeper, from Payson, Utah, made two huge saves in one on one situations...and the other teams goalie was so bad that when we got off, what seemed to be our 100th cross, she miss judged a bad attempt of a clearance and it hit her in the bumb and went in the goal.

I have said it many times as a coach, it does not matter how it crosses that line, as long as it corsses the line. We scored in the 87th minute. We had to defend a 1-0 lead for just over 3 minutes.

The Iowa Western Women's Soccer team will be ranked in the top 5 and will head to their first ever NJCAA Tournament in Albany, Georgia Novemebr 15-19th. The Lady Reivers have to win three matches to be national champions. We have a solid team,and have only allowed 5 goals in 20 matches, but we might have to abuse someone elses bumb to score goals and be successfull.

Hope all is well! Love ya!

Friday, November 03, 2006



This year we opted for traditional costumes. We thought that it would be really sweet to go trick-or-treating as the Von Trapp Family Singers. You should see the tears that come into peoples eyes as we stand on their door steps and sing Edelweiss. Can't you almost imagine the natural splendor of the Swiss Alps as a backdrop for this picturesque family group? We are available for Sacrament Meetings, Missionary Farewells, Weddings, and Funerals. PLEASE tell your friends!

Thursday, November 02, 2006

To contact Mom and Dad in Europe...

Here are David and Cindi's Cell Phone #'s
Cindi 011 34 636 39 40 06
David 00 34 636 39 40 06

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

FYI, for the soccer junkies (David especially). I have created a BLOGSPOT for the collge soccer programs. There are highlight videos and stuff like that there. If you want to see our teams play check out: www.reivers.blogspot.com

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