Sunday, January 31, 2010

Long-awaited short update

In case you haven't been following us at Twitter.com/SinclairFamFun ... why not?!? The #ThingsBoboSays feature is worth the price of admission, and Twitter is free! You can see the earlier post for specific directions. But I digress.

Brody has been playing soccer and scored his first goal of the season yesterday ... in the right goal and everything (which isn't as common as you'd think in under-4 soccer)! He's having fun and participating more than last season. Hopefully they won't get rained out again this week.

Corey's hockey team won 9-3 yesterday against the second-best team in the league (although there's really one great team and the rest are pretty even). Corey and the Capitals are 5-3 in 2010 (and he won a game with the Flyers too). In the last nine games his goals-against average is 3.89 ... not too shabby for 7- and 8-year-olds.

Both boys got haircuts this week, and have been riding the new bikes Carrie got for them (she's riding her new bike too). Corey and I went to the Coyotes game last night: great lower-level seats, great game and we walked out of the arena with MUHAMMAD ALI afterward. Pretty cool!

Hopefully we'll get the blog more up-to-date when things slow down more ... like July?

Monday, January 4, 2010

Great Weekend of Hockey

After getting home at 12:30 a.m. Saturday morning, Corey had a hockey tournament this weekend in Gilbert starting at 7 a.m. Saturday. Corey and the Capitals lost their first game, 3-1, to the team that eventually lost the championship game in OT. Corey saved 14 of 17 shots and TWO penalty shots! He told me last night this game was his favorite of the tourney. Corey actually didn't play as well in the second game Saturday, making only 7 saves on 11 shots, but the Capitals won, 5-4.

On Sunday, the Flyers needed a goalie, so Corey played for them, and it was one of his better games. He only allowed one goal (and it was short-handed after a too-many-men-on-the-ice penalty), saving 7 of 8 shots. In his second game, the Capitals rolled to a 6-3 victory to win their second game of the weekend and just their fourth win of the year. In two days, Corey was 3-1, allowed an average of 2.75 goals a game and saved 35 of 46 shots (.761 save percentage).