Brinkleys: October 2012

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Sounders practice

Tim entered and won a drawing to attend a Sounders practice and meet some players afterwards. It was a pretty awesome deal. It even worked out that the practice was on his day off last week. Otherwise I guess I would have been the one to go and I would definately not have appreciated the opportunity to the degree Tim did! He got to take Ezra since it was a school day.

Our new goalie, Michael Gspurning. The only disappointment of the day was that they didn't get to meet Ezra Hendrickson, an assistant coach (who we are a fan of because of his name!)

One of the publicity people took these pictures but I can't get them to expand and not be blurry.

Puyallup Fair 2012

We got to enjoy a beautiful day at the fair this year (mid-September). We discovered some new things we hadn't done before and got to go back to some of our favorite activities too. One of my favorite things at the fair is the mutton bustin'. We thought Christian was too old for it, but found out that he and Ezra both could participate. Austin was wishing he could do it too but he was a good sport about supporting his brothers.

If you don't know, mutton bustin' is a kid version of a rodeo where the kids are trying to stay on a sheep for 6 seconds as it runs across the arena.

When it was Ezra's turn he did get on the sheep and was holding with his arms around the sheep in the right place but he did not have a good hold on the wool so the workers lifted him right off as soon as he took off to prevent a big crash.

This is the beginning (below) of Christian's ride. He stayed on almost the whole 6 seconds and made it almost the whole way across the arena. For at least half his ride he was hanging on sideways on the sheep!