A few weekend pics

Our season's first burn. We see Chalupa, Big Dawg and Peanut taking it all in. We had a guest appearance by my college roommate Mr. Bartels. Unfortunately Sidetrack retired early. She came down with a bizarre eye infection which seemed to have been compounded by her allergies. She looked like she went 3 rounds with Ali. Thankfully, she got a diagnosis and meds on Sunday and is doing much better.

As for the burn... there are not too many things are more relaxing than sitting by the fire after a day of work.

The burn was about the only rest we had all weekend. Sunday followed with four soccer matches. Chalupa and the Magic won both their games in shut out fashion. In the second game, Chalupa was accosted in the goalie box (blind sided by the opposing team with the ball clearly in her possession) and no penalty was called! Buzz got a bit vocal (minimally) which set of the opposing team's coach who went Bobby Knight ballistic at my singular call for a Red Card. Scary that a person like that is allowed to coach young kids.

In other action, Peanut and the Blizzards won 1 - nil. The only goal was scored on an assist by the Peanut (offensive TNT... BABY!!).

Big Dawg's team won 5 - 1, and he had a goal and two assists. lSo the Taylor's were 4 - 0 for weekend soccer. After all the soccer matches, Big Dawg had ISC soccer academy. This is a fun developmental boot camp that is hosted by the ISC club. Below are the clouds that appeared overhead that eventually led to lightning and the cancellation of practice. UGH.
But true to our optimistic nature, we look for rainbows after the rainstorm, and low and behold... we found one!!! This at the very end of our street looking southeast across a recently seeded corn field (what did you expect? This is Iowa, ya know).
And such was our weekend. And so... onto our first week of May. Summer is only a month (or so) away! Whoooo Hoooo!