Infinity SC 96 Girls Premier Return From Vegas With Gold

View my blog for the article. Many of you may not know my role in the Infinity Soccer Club. I am the technical director of the club. I am in charge of the overall development of the coaches, players and parents. Anytime a team has success it is a reflection of me and what I am trying to accomplish in Cache Valley. So I wont bore you with the actual information, but i will let you know of the club accomplishments as they occur and let you vist my blog if you so desire. The pictures of the players playing and celebrating are the best part of my blog...pure joy on a soccer pitch. I love it!

A night with Grandma and the Hillman's

It is a tradition for Grandma to bring 'The purple Crayon' with her when she comes and the kids love it. Tonight they took turns reading with her.

Lizzie, Millie and Lauren

Stacia

Landon

Emma

Grace

Lizzie

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

from the little girl who used to live at 234 West Portal

HI ALL! Well, Halloween is tomorrow night - when all those 'ghosts and goblins' are out and about the neighborhoods! The Norton's got us started with fun Halloween pics, so wanted to add a few more. Ninha sent pics of Shawnna and Drew and one of herself too! As you can see, Drew is all ready to do battle with his Kung-foo Ninja stance and Shawnna is decked out as a 'Monster Bride' - the teenage years are just around the corner - heehee! And there's Ninha - BUZZING around the classroom in her best bee outfit! With Maria in Utah enjoying the grandkids, Ed is on his own, so I'm bringing over the pizza, he's supplying the drinks and together, we're going to be handing out 'goodie's at his front door. If only MOM were here (and all of you, of course) it would be a perfect HALLOWEEN!

Hope all of you enjoy a safe and sane (not too scary) 'ALL HALLOWS EVE'

Love, Grandma TaTa

Love the blog Marrion!!

I just wanted to tell everyone that we have started a little blog for the Bryan and Marion Norton family (nortonfamilymusings.blogspot.com) if any of you are interested in checking it out. Do not fear Ed, I promise to continue posting to the Ginn Family Blog.

Hey dad, I´m glad you got everything figured out so you can get on the blog.
The next few days I´ll be living with Julia (mother-in-law) taking care of her while she recovers from her knee operation!!
hugs for everyone.
oh! Can´t wait for everyone elses Halloween pictures!! Joc, I don´t think they celebrate Halloween up there, but your kids dress up, don´t they?

This is great I am now able once again to post on my home computer and my office computer.
Yea Dad

Great pictures Marion et al. I'm glad you and your family enjoy Haloween as much Virginia and I did. Thank you for posting them and hope to get some more from everyone else.
Just to let everyone know in advance all I want for Christmas is a nice current picture (hard print) of each family and that includes David&Cindi, Cassy and Jimmy sent in the mail.

Has everyone figured out yet that the Nortons love Halloween. We were on our way to a Halloween party on Saturday night and Spencer asked, "So, what are we going to be for Halloween next year?" As you can see the experiments at the lab didn't go so well. We did, however, manage to clone a sheep (experiment 576.2 DOLLY).

HAPPY 75TH BIRTHDAY!!

JIMMY GINN!!

(Hey Jim, not exactly

sure if you're 75 but I think

it's pretty close)

I got your letter,

glad to know

you were able to pick

something up

with my 'Birthday Gift'

Love you always,

Your Little Sis,

Cassy

Hi all,

I love the new look of the Ginn blog that Bobby put together. It will just be more expensive to print and for some reason I can't access the blog now to make entries so I am having Cassy do it for me today. So,OOOOOOOOOOOOOOwwwhhhhhooo scarywe are being helped in getting the house ready for Halloween by mother nature. I came home Wednesday and Marie showed me what the cub scouts had found hanging on our back sliding door screen.........A BAT ........ a cute little thing. Unfortunately by the next morning it had left so our decorations are now down to zero.....the same as before.

Love Dad

The trip to Madrid was a success. I got the marriage certificate ordered and spent two days in the temple! Yes, I hit Starbucks too!!!
I put the pictures of the room at the hostal so you all would have an idea of what they are like. They´re very nice and clean...of course.
In about two weeks I´ll have to go back to pick up the marriage certificate, because they don´t send it to me. It works out pretty well...the week I have to go is our stakes week to be at the temple and on Saturday of that week the youth are driving down to do baptisms. So, I´ll stay all week again and drive back with the youth.
This time was quite the experience...almost all the sessions I went to were in Portuguese (it was a stake from Portugals week to be there) and after listening with the headphones once in english and once in spanish I did the rest without headphones...they get in the way...besides I got to the point that I could understand everything. In two days I did one hour of iniciatorios(i have no idea how to spell it in english!) and 8 sessions. In one of the sessions I ran into a group of kids from BYU that are in Madrid studying. It was fun to talk to them. I also got to know all the little temple workers... honestly this was great because I´m just about to turn 30 and in the temple I always feel so YOUNG!!! The temple workers took good care of me...they´re always so sweet and they love what they´re doing.
It was lots of fun...except for the cold rainy part waiting in line to order the marriage certificate...I can´t wait to go back. Going to the temple is the closest thing I have to going home, I feel very loved when I´m in the temple.
Love you all. Have a happy day. Keep smiling!

I slept on the top bunk!

Yipee for Nathan!!!! Thank you big brother!!
Your girls are sooooo cute and growing up soooo fast! Hugs for all!

Here are some recent pictures of the Colorado Ginn girls. I know that Cindi needs some pictures for her computer. As you can see, Alexa has joined the Girls Scouts and I believe that Brinley will be starting soon. Natalie is out supporting Brinley at her soccer game with her ever present "bunny friend." I also threw a shot of me and Ainsley in as well. Nathan

HI ALL! CONGRATULATIONS AND

A BIG THANK YOU

TO BOBBY

FOR THE GINN FAMILY BLOG

'NEW LOOK!!'

Till' next time,

Aunt Cassy

I thought I would share:

gotsoccer.com is recognized as the official ranking program for youth soccer in America. This web site allows players, coaches and parents to follow their teams at a national level. Briefly, gotsoccer.com has created a system that ranks tournaments. Winning, placing or showing in a tournament gives teams points and as the year moves on points are accumulated and teams are ranked. For more detailed information click HERE.

Current Infinity Rankings on gotsoccer.com can be viewed by clicking the team you wish to view:
(28th) 1st in Utah U12 Girls Premier
(687th) U13 Girls Premier

This U12 Girls are evidence of taking a community and uniting them. The team is made up of last years #3 team and #5 team. Both teams were from Cache Valley. When we created Infinity the two teams merged and dominated all three tournaments they attended during the summer.

Love you all. Keep smiling :)

Yes, Cindi, I agree. I just made the comment to Patrice the other day about how hard it was to get to the temple when we lived in Utah and it was only 15 minutes away. Now it's almost 3 hours away and gas is 3 times more expensive (at least!).


Last Saturday, Oct 11, I took Guillaume to a Fall Cub Scout Day Camp. It was in Casteau, Belgium which is about 2 hours away on the US military installation called SHAPE (didn't find out what that stands for). I might have mentioned last year that I was trying to get a BSA Cub Scout pack going here in Luxembourg. Well, I had a few boys that attended activities regularly but I never found a sponsor and the group didn't really go in the direction I wanted - toward being official. So this year I signed Guillaume up in the Lone Scout program so he can actually be on the records of the BSA and earn his Bear. Since he was a registered lone scouter we were able to attend the cub scout day camp. It was a lot of fun and well organized. It ran from 8-5 with an hour to register/check-in and get in groups etc. From 9-12 we rotated through 3 activities of an hour each. 12-1 we ate lunch (one of the boy scout troops had a BBQ to make money so we just bought lunch from them). 1-4 we rotated through 3 activities of an hour each. Then we ended with a short meeting to thank everyone, pass out patches and we were done before 5. The weather was foggy (what can you expect from the Ardennes) and cold and wet but we survived and will definitely dress even warmer for next time.

The most exciting activities that they had were the BB guns and the archery. Of course Guillaume didn't hit the target on either one but he had fun trying. Plus he's excited because he'll be able to get his belt loops for these. The rest of the activities were your standard variety cub scout games. Guillaume loved all of them. I took notes for future use.




They had divided the groups up first by pack (of which there were 4) but if the pack was larger than 10 the extra kids got put together so there ended up being 6 groups of 10 boys. Each group was had a color flag. Guillaume's group was red/white/blue.

There were two packs from Belgium, one from the Netherlands, one from Germany, and Guillaume Duffort the Lone Scout of Luxembourg. It was kind of fun because when they passed out the patches at the end of the day they called out the pack number and one of the leaders went up to get the bag of patches to pass out to his boys. But Guillaume actually got to go up himself to get his own patch because he doesn't have a pack.

This is Guillaume with his group's flag and his orange patch hanging on his shirt. He had a lot of fun and will be excited to attend the next day camp scheduled for April 2009 in the Netherlands. While Guillaume did his activities I had time here and there to talk to some of the men. Considering I know very little about cub scouting and also considering I don't really have a functioning organization to jump in and learn from, I asked lots of questions about how they run things, etc. I particularly liked the man that led Guillaume's group and he invited us up to participate in their Pinewood Derby in February if we can make it. I'll have to get Patrice to schedule a business trip to the Netherlands so we can attend.

I also lucked out because the parking lot that we parked in was also the parking lot for the library. That was the one place I had wanted to hit while on base. I went in and browsed the book exchange shelf and came home with 21 books FOR FREE!! I was so excited.

One observation about the day... it was really nice to be able to attend an American event. Americans are so much more efficient than the French. I have a hard time with church functions in France because everything takes forever and there is so much wasted down-time. For example, the stake Primary activity each year is from about 10-5. From 10-12 is an activity. From 12-2 is lunch (kids eat for 30 minutes and then run wild while adults eat and talk for the remaining 90 minutes-drives me mad). From 2-4 is an activity. At 4 is a snack and then we go home. Nothing seems to go as planned. So this Cub Scout event was so nice and organized in comparison. It didn't run exactly like clockwork but close to it compared to my experiences in church. Plus I actually enjoy organizing things like this so it gave me ideas for when I'll have to do it someday.

Now I guess I need to get on the ball and get Guillaume the rest of his uniform. All he has right now is his shirt, thanks to Gramma Cass. Oh, I forgot to mention that we are in the TransAtlantic Council which is the largest in the BSA, and the Charlemagne district which I think is all of France, Belgium, Lux, Netherlands, and Germany. The office is in Mannheim Germany but will be moving to Aviano Italy in 2009. I'll keep you posted on our scouting progress.

Wish me luck!! I´m headed off to Madrid and I hope I can get what I need to get done!! In about 30 minutes I´ll head off to catch the train which will take me 40 minutes to get to Barcelona, then change to another train that will take me to the airport, that takes another 20 minutes. I´m leaving nice and early to make sure I get there ok!! This afternoon I´ll probably do 2 sessions and then tomorrow I´ll wake up early and go into town to get the marriage certificate (i hope, so I don´t have to go back on Thursday). Then Thursday I´ll spend the whole day in the temple and Friday I´ll head back to Barcelona.
Not to be all preachy or anything, but those of you that have temples SO close to you...GO! I´m lucky if I get to go to the temple once a year here, usually I go on my trip to the States. It´s one of those things I really miss, not to be able to just go to the temple whenever I want. I know you have kids and work, etc. but it´s such a spiritual boost to go to the temple, take advantage of that.

Ok, done preaching. I´m just excited to spend a few days at the Temple!!
Love you all.

Nate- give me permission/access to be in control of the blog.


bobby

I too have created a blog site for myself. Since I do not have a family of my own, I created one that would allow people to follow my experiences and theories of coaching. I have started taking all of the blogs from Iowa Western and adding them on there and will begin adding the Council Bluffs Futbol Blogs and Infinity Soccer blogs. It is the only way for me to keep a log of all the things I have done and accomplished and allow others to view it. It will also be used as a way for me to help educate players, parents, coaches and fans by posting articles by others as well as sharing my thoughts on the articles etc.

Not as much fun as the family stuff, but it is what I do and it is my passion.

Love you all.

Here is the Blogsite: www.coachginn.blogpsot.com

Hi, we are ALIVE! Bye.

NATHAN! WAKE UP! POST SOMETHING!
thank you!! love you!!

Since I have a bit of time on my hands these days I´ve created a blog for David and I. There´s only one post for now, but I thought it´d be fun to start our own "family history". The page is: www.rodriginn.blogspot.com

love you all!

We didn´t get to go to Shans or Natalies or Laurens birthday parties this week, but we did get to go to Laras. She turned 1 just like Lauren. This is her and her parents.

Thanks Cassy for keeping us informed about Andy, Nina, Shawna and Drew. They are so cute and it is great to see that there is soccer in the East Coast. Always love the VW bugs. The little yellow ones that Drew was driving were to die for - I wanna be little again - well maybe not.
Keep posting all I love'm
Dad

HI ALL!! Just so you know – SOCCER IS FUN AND HAPPENING ON THE EAST COAST TOO!! And the Normand Clan knows that first hand because a couple of weekends ago the whole family spent two days soaking up ‘INTENSE’ soccer ‘FEVER’ and ‘FUN’!!

The Volkswagen Company is a sponsor for the local DC United team whose home field is RFK Stadium in Washington DC. With VW as a sponsor, lots of the players drive VW’s and recently Andy has been working on Brian Namoff’s car – he’s one of the players (the cute blonde) and he got tickets for the family to enjoy a Saturday game, sitting in the ‘FAMILY SECTION’ really close to the field. They played ‘Chivas-USA’ but sorry to say, they didn’t win!

Then, everyone got to come back the next day for a day-long ‘SOCCER CAMP’ and ‘MEET AND GREET’ the players!! Shawnna looks really good out there on the field with Brian and Drew looks cute with the ball. I know one day he will be taller than Shawnna, even if it doesn’t look like it now. There was even a ‘VW Mechanic’s Shop’ on site, where you could see the new model VW's and they even had a REAL BIG VW BUG for everyone to sign. There's Shawnna getting ready to put her 'JOHN HANCOCK' on the fender! And, let’s not forget those cute little ‘VW BUGS’ they had for the younger guys to drive – Drew looks like he knows what he’s doing. They were actually cars that had motors, so Drew really had lots of fun! He's had so much experience driving those little cars, that by the time he gets to the 'real thing' he'll be a PRO!

The fun part of the 'MEET AND GREET' was getting autographs of the players and having your pictures taken with them too! Even Ninha got in on the action! A couple of the players are Brasilian so was fun for Ninha and Andy to talk with them. Everyone looks like they were having fun! Brian took everyone on a tour of the locker room. There's Shawnna and Drew trying out the 'seat' in Namoff's locker!

Hopefully I get the pictures and the names straight. There's Shawnna and Drew with Gonazlo Peralta. Shawnna and Drew with Brian Namoff and Ben Olsen. Shawnna and Drew with Jaime Moreno. Ninha, Shawnna and Drew with Luciano Emilio. Ninha, Shawnna and Drew with 'FRED' (he only goes by Fred, kind of like a 'Cher' thing). The last pics are of Ninha, Shawnna and FRED sitting on the sidelines - looks like fun, huh!! Wish I could have been there too!!

Take care till' next time!

Love, Grandma TaTa

My cousin Larry Vance (Clifford and Virginia Vance's son) will be undergoing brain surgery for a tumor in his brain Tuesday morning. He had some moles that started growing rapidly about a year and a half ago. He had them removed. They were melanoma and they thought they had caught them before they metastasized but unfortunately they are now in the blood steam and he has three in his brain and others in his lungs.
I talked to him tonight and he seemed very upbeat and looking for a positive outcome from the surgery tomorrow which will be followed by chemo and radiation.
He is younger than me and too young to pass on so I ask that we all keep him in our prayers for the foreseeable future.
Ed Ginn

Me at academy training. I added a few pictures without me...just the players. There were only two with me in them. The girls in the pictures are 7-9 yr olds.