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.

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

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

Go Reivers!!!!!!!!

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

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY!!

Guillaume Andre Duffort

(My Little Gee-O-Me-No-Mee)

Love you lots,

Grandma Cass

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.

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

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!

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!

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

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