Weekend in Vegas!!

Last Friday at about 4 pm I loaded into a TINY car with 4 large soccer boys. You see, this particular weekend they had a soccer tournament in Las Vegas. Here are some highlights.

• James was getting a little bit harassed during one game. His mom stood up, ran onto the field, and screamed "Number 99 you are.... naughty!" haha One of the best moments of my soccer watching career.
• I learned WAY more than I wanted to know about boys in the few hour trip from Provo to Vegas. I had my non-brother life for the last 22 years filled up 22 years worth of brotherness.
• James played blackjack for the first time. He lost $15! But had a good time.
• I saw the sun for the first time in months! 
• We had some quality time with some of J's family members and no time at all with others. The trip was so quick!
• James and I stayed at his dad's house.... with 7 other soccer boys. I was serious about the brother fix.
• I think James got the record for the most red cards in the entire tournament.

Let me tell you the red card story. If you haven't noticed, James is a rather large boy. It is not shocking for him to receive a card or 2 during a game. He looks bigger and like the one who would inflict pain on others and sometimes that is the case, but sometimes it isn't. In the second game of the day he received 2 yellow cards, so a soft red. Kicked out of the game and the next game of the day. In game number 4, literally 2 minutes into the game, James decides that he is goalie and sticks up his hand to block a goal. His hand!! Hello he's supposed to be playing soccer! In case anyone is unsure soccer is played with your feet.
Anyways the good news is James didn't miss game number 5. The coaches LIED to the refs and gave them the wrong name, so James could play. I have not seen James that happy in a long time!

Anyways we left late and didn't get into Provo until 4 am! And I had a class at 8 am! This was actually Valentines Day, so needless to say our Valentines Day is this weekend! It should be really fun. I think we are going to go to Tucanos.

This is from L to R J's dad, Sarah (Richard's wife), Richard (James' older brother), J's mom. These are the ONLY pictures I have from the whole trip. Sad right? The only reason I even have these are my in-laws asked me to take them to put up on their facebook :)