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?

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).

Happy Birthday Jude!

Follow us on Twitter too!

OK, you're probably thinking, "Twitter is so scary" (right, Kristin?) and "I just don't think I can do it" (sound familiar, Kristin?) and "I'm too busy" (Kristin?), but in order to truly experience the 2009 Sinclair Family Christmas Adventure, you really should check it out.

Here's all you have to do:

1) Go to twitter.com
2) Click on "Sign up now"
3) Fill out your name, user name (how you'll be seen online), password and email
4) Click "Create my account"
5) I clicked on "Skip this step" at the bottom of the "See if your friends are on Twitter page" and "Look who else is here"

That's it! When you get to your home page, you can search for "SinclairFamFun" or go to twitter.com/SinclairFamFun and then follow us.

We're pretty much packed up to leave this afternoon and hope it all fits in the car. We're getting Corey at school at 3, and then the fun begins!

Coyotes Games

Carrie got us tickets for the Honeywell suite a couple of weekends ago, which was great! However, it was an 8 p.m. start after a birthday party after hockey so Corey was pretty tired by the second period. We had fun, though! In fact, as part of the "We Win, You Win" promotion, we got four more free tickets! Corey and I also went to see the Coyotes-Wild game. Even though he wore his Wild jersey, Corey was cheering for the Coyotes (who won again, 2-0).