Rolen Family Blog

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Hi Family!

Lylalynne is cute!!! I love being an Aunt already. I wish you all could have been there...you'll see her soon enough though! Lots of hugs!

~Aunt Jackie

Sunday, March 29, 2009

First Baby Pic!

Welcome Lylalynne Jillian!

SO CUTE!!!!

Friday, March 27, 2009

Hello Family! Today has been a fun day with Michelle. Out to lunch, flower shopping, starbucks and pedicures. Mom and I have done everything to get the labor starting...no luck yet. Now we're just chillin, making dinner and watching movies tonight. We'll be sure to call everyone once anything exciting starts to happen!
~Jacks

ready to pop

This is me..ready to pop...1 day over my due date!!!!! Can't believe it has now come and gone.....I did go to the docs today and she thinks she might arrive by the end of this weekend...we will soon find out. Mom and Jackie should both be here this weekend so maybe she was just waiting till the ideal time for everyone ;) Keep ya posted with pics, Love ya lots

Thursday, March 26, 2009

ANNIVERSARY / CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

We celebrated our 3rd Wedding Anniversary today! We had a good time! I got off early from work, around Noon. We transferred a bunch of bulbs from our front flower bed into pots. We have been getting the yard ready for some landscaping to be done starting next Monday.

We had 3 trees that were about 60 ft tall cut down. They were "hybrid" poplars, the worst trees to have. They take over you entire yard and the root system goes anywhere and everywhere! Trees start to growing pretty much everywhere. It's very annoying especially in the summer time. Our yard is pretty much a jungle so we have made a decision to contract the major work since it's not practical for me to be out there for 3 months with a shovel. We will keep you updated with some pictures.

We went to dinner at the Olive Garden, Rebecca's favorite! It was good, we ate, and ate, at ate until we nearly needed a courtesy ride to our ride; get it! After dinner we came home and chilled for awhile and then late this evening we went to our final hockey game. Coincidentally the final game fell on our Anniversary. Rebecca was a good sport and was my number 1 fan. We had a good turn out and ended up winning in another shootout.

Life is good!

Jared

Saturday, March 21, 2009

LEAGUE PLAYOFF GAME

This is my first year playing league. Our league is composed of 4 teams of approximately 12-14 players per team. Currently our team is leading in points. Each game that is won you score 2 points, and very every shootout you earn 1 point.

Last Monday was our first playoff game, loser plays the consolation match the following week. So really you can go from 1st Place to 3rd or 4th place in a matter of 48 minutes from 32 weeks of hardwork.

The game started off bad, we were missing 2 players one being one of are very best defenders. We just couldn't get the puck in the net, usually we score a few goals each period. Their goalie was in a zone, and believe me we tried to get in his head. We continued to battle back and score 1 goal to tie things up. Unfortunately that is wear the score remained until the end of regulation.

We continued on into a 5 minute 4th period; "sudden death" who ever scores first wins. The buzzer sounded at the end of the 4th period still the score at 1-1.

Now came the shootout. A shootout it decided by each team taking turns shooting 1 on 1 on the goalie. The format starts with the first 3 shooters from each team. Which ever team scores the most goals out of 3 attempts wins. If the scoring is either matched by point earned, or an equal amount of shots our blocked by each goalie then the teams continue to shoot until one team has more shots made.

We continued to go back and forth neither of us scoring, finally the 5th shooter from their team made one, we followed suit with our 5th shooter scoring a goal, keeping us alive. Their 6th shooter missed it, our 6th shooter missed it. Their 7th shooter missed it.

At this point I went up to center ice, never done a shootout before. However I watched the goalie the first 6 times most of all out shots we very low. So I went down and shot it on the top left corner of the net over his right shoulder and it went right in the the net for the game winning goal. I have to admit I was quite humbled by the whole experience. The last thing you want to do is celebrate in front 14 players that pretty much have you on their radar.

It was a great win, next week is our final game. I had to the tell Rebecca the good news and the bad news. Honey, "the good news is that we won, the bad news.. well the game is on our Anniversary"!!!!