Right before I left this morning for work, I walked out back to water the flowers before another 100+ degree day.  (They say this will be day 12 of the last 13 for 100+)  When I got out back, the sky looked so awesome and it looked like parts of it were on fire.  So I went in and grabbed my crappy camera and snapped some shots of it.

After I left for work I was driving north and saw some cool rain clouds so I snapped a few pictures of those clouds too.  Here is one of them:

We have had our house now about 3 years and although not quite ready to do a major remodel but there are some things around the house that could be upgraded. Yeah that’s it.

A couple things off the top of the list would be to replace this vinyl floors in the kitchen and bathrooms and throw down some ceramic tile. The carpet is still in really good shape so no need to replace that. Oh and speaking of the bathrooms, I would love to change out the faucets and maybe upgrade them to some nice Delta faucets. I think the shower heads need to be replaced also. Now on to the other parts of the house.

We still have never painted, so I think this might be the cheaper solution to make the biggest impact. We already started the front landscaping, except we haven’t finished it, lol..!!! I think those are a few of the major things we want to start on.

Now we just have to get started getting some things done!

Play is completing today for the National Championship in the age groups.  In a previous post I mentioned that D’Feeters were knocked out in the U14 division.

U15:
Dallas Texans 93 Red finished up yesterday [Saturday] winning the Championship in U15.  They won over So Cal Blues-dodge 2-1.

U16:
Dallas Texans Red 92 finished up this morning winning the Championship in U16.  They won over Eclipse Select 91-92 3-2.

U17:
Dallas Texans 91 Red finished up their final game in a tie and went to PK’s.  They were playing Eclipse Select 90-91.

U18:
Sting Dallas 90 lost to Colorado Rush Nike 0-3 to end their National Championship run.

So a big congrats goes out to the Dallas Texans club for winning at least 2 National Championships this weekend and possibly a third.

U17 division finished up the last game tonight and now the final pairings are set for the championships.  Here are the North Texas teams playing for the championship title.

U14:
North Texas Team is out - D’Feeters 94

U15:
Dallas Texans 93 Red vs. So Cal Blues-Dodge @ 7:15pm Saturday

U16:
Dallas Texans 92 Red vs. Eclipse Select 91-92 @ 10:00am Sunday

U17:
Dallas Texans 91 Red vs. Eclipse Select 90-91 @ 8:15am Sunday

U18:
Sting Dallas 90 vs Colorado Rush Nike @ 7:45am Sunday

Good luck on the finals North Texas Teams..

U14:
D’Feeters 94 lose 0-1 to FC Stars.  It looks like the National run is over.

U16:
Dallas Texans 92 Red win over Sting Dallas Royal 92 | 0-1 to win Pool A.  They should move on and play Eclipse 91-92 for the Championship on Sunday at 10am.

U18:
Sting Dallas 90 lose to Colorado Rush 0-1 but remain in the bracket to play for the championship against Colorado Rush on Sunday at 745am.

U17 bracket plays the last game tonight at 7pm and then all the championship brackets will be set!

Dallas Texans 93 Red won game #3 against Scorpions Elite 4-1 to move past Slammers FC for 1st place in Pool A.

So if I read this right, they will be playing tomorrow night against So Cal Blues-Dodge - 7:15pm ct for the championship.

Good job..

U14 and U18 teams are playing right now..
Will update later on today with this info..

I think it would be awesome to be there watching these games right now!

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U15 Standings Page

Dallas Texans 91 Red lost tonight against Eclipse Select 90-91 with a score of 1-2

Goals for the game: (from the US Soccer Site)
DTX - Becka Rivera - (64:00)
ECL - Carly Smithe - (18:00)
ECL - Leah Fortune - (8:00)

This will put the Texans into a 2nd place tie in their bracket.

All teams that I’m following in my last post will all play the final bracket game tomorrow and will post some updates to scores when I can check out the scores..

While I don’t watch every match every weekend, or go see the local professional team every game, that doesn’t mean I love soccer.  I grew up playing soccer with my dad coaching me almost my entire youth soccer career (I think 1 year I played on another team) and I have also accumulated about 15 years of coaching experience at all youth levels.

Now that I’m coaching once again after a year or two off, I have jumped back into or onto a competitive soccer team.  Yep I have probably written something about them before but we are a new team that has been training for almost the last year in preparation to move into the competitive leagues.  So naturally I’m now interested in following all of the competitive clubs in the area.  Now we are not a Lake Highlands team (Lake highlands is the premier competitive league in North Texas) so I don’t mind checking out how other teams do especially since they represent North Texas Youth Soccer.

So this week (started last night) is the Youth National Championships.  There are quite a few North Texas teams that have made it and are playing for the National Title in there age division.  So here are the current results up to this time.  Most of these teams have played 2 games already in there bracket:

U18:
Sting Dallas 90 - 2-0-0 (1st Place)

U17:
Dallas Texans 91 Red - 1-0-0 (1st Place)
** Play 2nd game tonight at 7pm**

U16:
Dallas Texans 92 Red - 1-0-1 (1st Place)
Sting Dallas Royal 92 - 0-1-1 (3rd Place)

U15:
Dallas Texans 93 Red - 0-0-2 (2nd Place)

U14:
D’Feeters 94 - 0-1-1 (3rd Place)

Good luck to the North Texas Teams..

I will update and post new scores when they come available.

Yes I’m soliciting my daily, frequent and not so frequent readers of my site and ask them if they would like to purchase a raffle ticket.

Let me explain this.  This raffle is for our soccer club (Polaris Soccer Club - North Texas) and being a coach this raffle tremendously helps out with our team fees and our budget.  So for $5 per raffle ticket, you are helping out my team (that I coach)

Now I have to say that this is really for US readers only, as some of the items might not work in other parts of the world.

Prize List:
2 - $1000 Gift Cards to Circuit City
2 - $500 Gift Cards to Circuit City
4 - $500 Gift Cards to Shell Gas
3 - $100 Gift Cards for Albertson’s
4 - $100 Gift Cards for Outback Steak House

Drawing is September 1st at 6:00pm
Again you do NOT need to be present to win

Plus with the purchase of the raffle ticket you are helping out our team.  So what are you waiting for, order some up

Please me a comment and I will email you back with instructions on how to participate.

Thanks

I have talked about this subject a few times on my blog here about working out and losing weight, so today I thought I would chat a little about weight loss pills.

Truthfully I plan on not trying to go down the path of taking diet pills, but a lot of people do and they rave about them.  Some have there favorites and some have ones they don’t work or they didn’t like.  So I thought I would just look up a few of them and list them here and get some peoples opinions.

This one website I found listed these:  Thermolean, Venom Diet Pills, 7-keto DHEA, EphBurn 25 and Hoodia Pure.  Now this website ranked Thermolean as #1 for fat loss and energy.  #2 showed up as Venom Diet Pills (weird name?  snake venom?).  They say it’s an effective fat burner. The 7-Keto…  Well they actually state that if your over 30 consider this one carefully.  Wow..!!!

I’m sure there are tons and tons of pills out on the market and I really dont have time to list them all or talk about them, but I would like or should I say ask, that if you actually use diet pills, to please comment.  I would like to know if they actually worked or not, success or failure.

For now I’m going to start a 2 a week training schedule (that’s all the time I have right now) until my local 24 hour fitness opens up by work, then I plan on going at least 3 times per week on my lunch hour and keep my other 2 days….