dance and hockey

Well just a little update on the Davenport family. Shyla has now started her competitive clasess. She has a tap group (5 girls)and they are dancing to The Witch doctor. She has a jazz group (7 girls) and they are dancing to Old macdonald had a farm (according to shyla is is a funkier version). She has an acro duet to the song we are siamese. And she has her first solo this year in jazz to Shake a tailfeather. She is so excited about it all. We are going to competitions in Orilla, Toronto, and Deerhurst for sure. We may be doing an optional competition out east one weekend in may and an optional competition in july in either new york city, boston or chicago.
Ryley's team has played 6 games this year and have won two. Unfortunatly it hasn't been when he has been in net. The first two teams that we played when he was in net were tough teams: one of them being whitby who hasn't lost a game. He had 41 shots on him and we lost 5-3. He played a good game. He just played sunday against ajax who hasn't won a game. He was really hoping for a win. However, his team did not play very well and with 2 assists by his own team, ajax won 2-0. He was not a happy camper. The stress of being a goalie...

Anniversaries

When Steve and I got married, we decided that we weren't going to buy each other gifts for our anniversaries. Instead we would take turns every year planning something to do together. That person would be in charge of planning and paying for everything, including childcare arrangements. This year was our 14th and Steve's turn. We went to Buffalo for the weekend. We dropped the kids off at his parents on Friday night and then we stayed in Oshawa attending two movies, something we don't get to do too often anymore, just the two of us. Then Saturday morning we left for Buffalo for a weekend away shopping and tickets to go to the Buffalo Sabres game. The shopping was awesome, but very busy due to the outstanding dollar. The game was great. This is only the second ever NHL game I have attended. The first one was a leafs game years ago when tickets weren't so scarce and expensinve. The buffalo arena was awesome. We were in the last row seats but the view was great. Buffalo won against the Capitals. It was a great game with lots of shots. Sunday was more shopping and then we came home to Pickering were we met our kids to watch Ryley's team. It wasn't Ryley's turn in net, but it was fun anyhow. It was a good game, with Oshawa losing a fighting battle 2 to 1. And so another year has come and gone and it is my year next year.