Congratulations to Angela, her Senior Girls curling team won the ROPSSAA Curling finals last Monday. Here is a photo of Angela with Jordyn (they were at the same babysitter and went to St Richard’s) who was on the other team. Due to some fortunate reason, both teams in the ROPSSAA finals were going to OFSAA.
Angela left this morning until Thursday. The OFSAA finals are in North Bay this year. Good luck to Angela and her team!
Congratulations are in order for Gillian on getting a co-op job with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada this summer. Thanks for Grandma and Papa for driving her to the interview last week. The job is in Vineland.
Angela received another university offer, this one is from the University of Guelph in the Bachelor of Science Human Kinetics program.
Claudia received all A’s on her first semester report card. Another job well done!
Angela has gone from chauffeuring Claudia around in the wagon to picking her up from school and chauffeuring her home in the car. Congratulations to Angela on passing her G2 road test today. After we got home from the DriveTest Centre in Oakville, I called to put her on the insurance and then she was off to pick up Claudia from school. Here they are in May of 2001.
Angela received her first conditional offer from Wilfrid Laurier University. She was accepted into the Bachelor of Kinesiology (BKin) program.
Today was Angela’s final soccer game of the season, it was the playoffs, with only four teams this year, it was lose one and done.
This is how close my telephoto lens can get the planes in the sky from my lawn chair on the field.
It was a close game early on, but by half time, the other team was up 2-0.
Angela played defence the entire game.
Lots of of pushing and shoving going on throughout the game. It almost looks like they are doing the 3-legged race. I think the final score was 4-1.
There was a hawk that was flying around the marsh and would come to rest in one of the trees.
I was able to see half of Angela’s soccer game this week. Claudia also had soccer practice so I had to drop her off and then drive down to watch Ang before heading back for Claudia. I brought my big lens, much to Gillian’s dismay, my paparazzi lens as she calls it. Here are some action photos I got of Angela playing goal. I’m still getting use to the framing with such a big lens. This ball just made it over Angela’s outstretched arms for the first goal.
Angela celebrated her 17th birthday. Here she is in the morning before school.
Angela with her shuttlecock googles. Angela is on the senior badminton team.
Celebrating with cake later in the evening.
Susan and I took Angela down to the University Fair at the Metro Convention Centre to get her thinking about post secondary education. This year we took the day off work and went down on the Friday in hopes the crowds would be smaller. The year we took Gillian, we went on the Saturday and it was packed. We got there for the 10:00 opening and were able to walk around and not fight the crowds.
The girls finished their soccer seasons on the Saturday. Claudia played in a quarter final game. Unfortunately they lost 2-0. Here she is shooting on net.
Angela’s team had a bye to the semi-final game. She played goal the entire game.
They faced the undefeated orange team. Halfway through the second half the coaches on both teams got into an argument. Orange, as they have been all year were running up the score in a shortened game. The halves were only 25 minutes long.
Angela kept it close and played a very good game. Her defence didn’t provide much help on this day.
Angela played keeper tonight at her soccer game and had a clean sheet. Here she is making an early save in the first half.
Angela has a good drop kick from the edge of the 18 yard box.
Angela’s team was up 2-0 at the half.
I took Chloe for a walk around the field and stopped to take a photo from behind the net.
Angela swatting at the flies.
The ball had just rung off the crossbar after a corner kick for the red team.
Angela’s team only had 9 players, the red team had 17 players, by the end of the second half they were getting tired. This action was from another red corner kick, Angela bobbled the initial play.
She recovered to grab the ball but in the process took a knee to her shoulder. It was a great game for Angela and they won 2-0.
