"Done & Dusted"

as Matt would say. 

The 13 days are over and thank goodness for that! 

Now I just can't get enough of my Skype dates with him but only 74 more days till I get to see his face in person. I am so glad that that February is coming to an end, the time is actually moving right along. 

He emailed me these pictures from Nicaragua. 

 This was his host family he lived with for 5 days.

 He said this is what he rode to and from work. 

how serious he was, I am not sure.

 The biggest pig I have ever seen! 

500lbs!!
apparently these are the pigs that get donated to science when they are babies

I love seeing pictures from his adventure

hope you guys do too : )

Other news:

I had my first soccer game as a coach last Tuesday.

We ended up losing 2-1 but it was the first scrimmage they have had

and I thought they did well. I am really surprised to say that I am actually enjoying it!

Tomorrow I have my first "Meet the Players Night" as a coach too.

Should be interesting. Also I have 3 more games this week.

I am so glad I have this to keep me busy.

Rewind.

I have been wanting to share this picture for a while now

and since we are headed back,

why not share it now?

We went to Springfield the last weekend of spring break

because Matt went to tryout for their PDL soccer team.

If you don't know what PDL is, you can read about it

here.

Anyways, we left on a beautiful Friday afternoon.

You probably remember that Friday, 

we hadn't seen sun in like forever and 

everyone broke out their shorts and rolled the windows down.

It was that kind of day.

(Well we opened the sun roof and snapped a picture

as we were headed out.

Please ignore Matt's crazy hair, he did get a 

haircut the other day.) 

Before we left both of our parents were worried 

because the day before the weather men were saying 

a winter storm was going to hit.

Apparently it was going to as bad as the Christmas Eve Blizzard.

And I know how bad that storm was because I was in it.

My uncle just HAD to go to the mall to get some last minute Christmas gifts.

Well a 2 hour trip turned into 6,

But that is a whole other story that I won't get into today.

Anyways, we checked the weather to Springfield

and all they were gonna get was some rain maybe sleet.

No big deal.

So Saturday morning we woke up to rain, 

Matt came back from the first try out drenched.

It rained all day and in the afternoon, evening it started to sleet.

Luckily his evening tryout got moved inside.

After that we went to dinner and that is when it started snowing.

It was really pretty so I just had to take a picture!

But we are headed back to Springfield tomorrow

because Matt got the call back to play in a scrimmage.

I am so excited for him, although if he makes the team

that means a summer without him. 

Luckily the season isn't too long 

so he would be back after the 4th of July!

Just keep your fingers crossed he does well!!

one last picture.

This is one of the bridges from the on and off ramp,

does this not confuse you?