And I hope in a good way..

One change, the weather.  I think our nightly lows are creeping to the upper 40’s, low 50’s which is nice and that also means (I hope) that winter is nearing it’s end and spring is around the corner.  Forecasts show possible thunderstorms Monday through Wednesday with some potentially reaching slight severe levels..  YES..  Bring on the storms..  Although this might impact soccer practice, but I welcome the heavy rains and thunderstorms.  (that’s one of the things I like about Texas)

Speaking of soccer, we are only one week from spring league starting up.  Wow we are in bad shape too..  The girls decided over winter break to not practice and we are now behind schedule getting everything ready for the spring opener.  Maybe that is why we are having two practices tomorrow. hmmm..

That’s probably the only two big changes at this point.  Oh, we did get our final approval for our Adoption/Foster license so that was some good news..

Today has started from bad and has progressed to worse.  This ice storm is nuts.  Of course some of you readers will be like “yeah whatever” but for Texas, ice storms can cause havoc.

Tonight on the way home from work I saw 2 accidents with one a rollover within 1/2 mile of leaving work.  Then saw about 6 more accidents on the way home.  Four of these had cars on the side or completely rolled over.

The main freezing rain and sleet is hitting right now and should last a few hours.  We are sitting about 30 degrees and by the morning commute time we should be about 26.  I sure hope they have the bridges and overpasses sanded better than then did tonight cause tomorrow morning will take me forever to get to work..

To warm up the ice I post this:

It’s been awhile since I had posted a cloud or Sunset picture.  I happen to grab these in the last couple of weeks.  The cloud shot was taken back on December 31st and the Sunset just last week on January 13th.

This sunset isn’t all that spectacular but it looked cool while driving home.

Well after the first week back at soccer practice I have to say I’m pretty disappointed.  Last Monday we had to cancel due to freezing rain but had practice as normal on Wednesday night and then we had practice this morning since we missed Monday.

Wednesday night was nice out weather wise, just a little chilly but not bad.  We had 2/3rd’s of the team there and didn’t do too shabby.  However this morning was a disaster.  Now it was pretty cold this morning with the wind chill.  Beside the weather they just showed lack enthusiasm, intensity, and showed a willingness of not really wanting to be there or practice for that fact.

I really hate to be mean about it but there are a few players on the team that just don’t do anything.  And to top that, a few players didn’t take care of themselves over the 3.5 week break and have hurt knees.

Tonight is a pizza party that they earned.  I hope they have fun cause serious soccer will be back starting Monday!

Back on December 5th I took some more ‘Sunset while driving’ shots out of the sunroof.  It was pretty good timing and I think they turned out well for the camera I have.  Just wanted to share two shots with you all.  Have a Happy Friday!

What a long but short weekend.  I know that really doesn’t make any since but that is what it felt like.  The first half started off really busy and the last half seemed to disappear rather quickly.  Friday night after work I started the weekend off by heading out to our soccer tournament.  It was FREEZING out.  I didn’t dress quite warm enough.  After the game (which we lost pretty bad) I cranked the car heater most of the way home.  My buddy Tim from Seattle called and I talked to him most of the way home so the time seemed to go by pretty fast, plus it helped to keep me awake.  Since the soccer field was about 1 hour from the house I didn’t make it home till about 10:35pm.  The bad news is I had to be back by 8:20am for our next game.  (hmmm why didn’t I just get a hotel room?  well probably the $$)

Our Saturday morning game was nothing short of a disaster.  0-10.  I can’t really explain what was said but I’m pretty sure the girls were not really happy.  Oh did I mention that Saturday was just as cold as Friday night?  yes it was, so I had about 1 hour to kill before the next game so I went down to Starbucks and got some hot chocolate to thaw out and write up some speech notes that I was going to deliver to the team after the next game.  We lost the next one also but it was 1-2 and they played much better than the first 2 games.

The rest of the weekend was rather uneventful.  Except the Flattening of Texas Tech by Oklahoma..  That was so awesome..

Anyways hope everyone had a good weekend.

The last couple days I have had some good opportunities to shoot some clouds and attempt at the moon.  Now granted my camera sucks so the Moon shots really don’t turn out that well for close ups, but I try anyways.

The two pictures I’m going to show here were taken at highway speeds via my sunroof.  Sometimes they actually turn out pretty good.  And the moon shot was taken the same way.  Enjoy…!!!

Yesterday afternoon before we got busy doing our to-do lists, we paused for a few minutes on our back patio basking in the beautiful day.  There were only a few clouds, not too many, and the sun was a mild 79 degrees.  Truly beautiful.  As I stare into the sky thinking about how good the house looked after a marathon cleaning event, I noticed this one cloud pretty much sitting all by himself.  Since I like the sky so much I ran in and grabbed my camera.  The angle of the sun behind the cloud was just right.  Here are two shots of it:

Hopefully you all had a wonderful weekend.

p.s.  Question – Were you late for anything Sunday morning cause of the time change?