the Klimek Chronicles: Soccer, Mud, and Puppies

Austin traveled to Washburn, WI on Lake Superior on Thursday for the Regional soccer game against Washburn. Washburn scored the first 2 goals, but Barron came back and scored 2 goals, also! Unfortunately, as Barron had great momentum going, the lightning started up. The game was called, as you can't play again until 30 minutes has passed since the last lightning strike, and it just kept lightning (and pouring rain)! So, the boys rode the 2.5 hours back home. They had to go back to Washburn today to finish the game--another 2.5 hour drive there, and 2.5 hours back to play soccer in the rain! We were tied at 5 to 5 at the end of the game, and the game went into double overtime! After two overtimes, it came down to shootouts--Washburn won, 3 to 2. :-( Austin's Freshman soccer season is now over... We are now looking forward to all 3 kids playing basketball in a nice warm, DRY gym! Abby is playing both in the Rice Lake League (done early November), and in the Barron Basketball League. Andrew just started practice for school basketball, and will begin traveling basketball a bit later.

Today, in our swimming pool--ooops, I meant our new basement addition, some guys came to cut the hole in the old basement wall to walk into the new part of the basement. Boy, was that a MESS!! Those poor guys had to stand out in the rain in the bottom of the basement (we have walls poured, but no floor yet) in a huge mud puddle! When they were done, Bill, our contractor, came over and patched up the hole with plywood and caulked the cracks. Hopefully we won't have any little furry visitors coming in to hibernate! :-)

Here is our lovely hole--Austin took a picture for me to post so everyone could enjoy it...

On our way back from Washburn on Thursday night, Jamie, Austin, Abby, and I stopped to see the puppies. They are getting so big, and they are so cute! They play a lot now with each other, and they like to play with people, too. When we would put our hands in their box, they would come running to our hands. We have decided that the kids do get to have a puppy--of course, they are VERY excited! We are leaning toward a girl puppy, but Jamie really likes one with a little white "bib", and that one is a boy, so we will see how that turns out...

"Hi, Mom!!!"

Sweet puppy face!

Nibbling on brother's ears!

A wrestling free-for-all!

Hey, let me out of here!

Austin found a sweet one to snuggle..

This little puppy must have found some McChicken leftovers on Abby's cheek!

It tickles!!!!

Could this be the new puppy for the Klimek's? Take note of the little purple collar on the puppy--we have that to put on our choice puppy while it still needs to stay with Misty so we can tell which one we pick out. We brought the collar back home last night, as we still think it is too early to pick that special one out yet...