Thais took Carson to gymnastics, Lenin took Sophia to a volleyball event, and I got to watch Avery play a great soccer game. Avery took the ball to the goal 4 (of the 5 total drives) and scored once.

He told me he has a “really good juke.”

Carson was excited to show me how his stomp rocket worked.

As soon as Adrienne dropped me off after .. flying from Brussels to London to San Francisco and driving to Sacramento, I drove over the Jeff and Leah’s for Avery’s family birthday party.

at Thais and Lenin’s.
Rita made pan leche:

Ready for Halloween:

St Ignatius has a good team but tonight’s outcome was quite lopsided. Sophia and at least one other teammate never touched the ball and we were finished in 40 minutes.

Phyl arrived at 6 pm last night – a couple of days before she and her sister Carol were supposed to leave for Hawaii. She arrived with a kidney infection and the medication to deal with it. But something else was going on. By midnight, we were on our way to the emergency room at Woodland Memorial Hospital.

The life-threatening diagnosis:

The best time for all of us to get together for my birthday was tonight. We didn’t go to the restaurant with these pretty flowers (too crowded)

but rather Mas Taco Bar:

Mas tacos:

Game #1, Avery scored 4 out of 5 goals. Woo hoo!

Game #2 – Sophia.
Avery used this technique to get a stick to go further into the ground:

Avery took the ball up the sideline around all the defenders to score a goal. He’s fast!