Ohhh could I sleep . . .

High School Hockey is officially over for my freshman player.  Let's talk about our little misfits from North Pole.

7	Donald, Jason	19	5	5	10	1	1		58	.56

Here is his season at a glance.  He played 19 game.  He was out for a few because of 1) a concussion 2) a broken foot.

Jason actually played two games on a broken foot.  It was stable in his skate and chose to finish out a weekend of games. He went for x-rays right after the last game.

He had 5 goals and 5 assists for a total of 10 points.  One was a short handed goal and one was a power play goal.  The fantastic thing about this is, even though we lost every league game, is that of all of the 1997 birth years playing high school hockey in the interior, of all of the kids he plays comp hockey with, NO ONE comes close to his points or playing time!  The closest was a defenseman friend who has 5 regular season points.  There are some freshman, who by birth year have one more year of hockey than Jase, that have more points, but only 2.

I am incredibly proud of my son.  INCREDIBLY!

Now, what is that 58 mean?  HaHaHaHa!
Those are his penalty minutes!  He has all of them beat on those too.  He is such a goon . . . NO not really.  He plays hard and fast and plays each game to make a statement.  Sometimes that is the statement that needs to be made.  When you play for a team that is continuously on the defense, its tough not to scramble around a bit and play physical.

Like I said before though, his season is over while his friends on opposing teams continue.  North Pole did not win any league games and does not get to play in the regional tournament.  As a parent though, hockey is not over until regionals are. We will be driving into Fairbanks in frigid temperatures and hosting the regional tournament.  We will run the door, penalty boxes, clock, etc.  It makes me cranky, but I'm a Patriot mom!  Its what we do.

Next Jason has state comp tournament which we could get second, maybe first if we hustle the puck to the net.  After that, its off to The Arctic Winter Games in Canada!  He and about 6 of his friends are off to represent Alaska in Whitehorse, Canada.

I'm not sure what we are doing.  Of course we don't want to miss these great events in his life, but we do have 2 other kids that need our love and support.  We will see.

For now, it is farewell to North Pole hockey until October 2012 and Hello Patriot Baseball!  Woo Hoo!

Busy Busy Saturdays

I honestly thought this year would be a breeze with only one child in hockey.

Yeah, not so much. Carly decided she wanted to play hockey with the girls team. So, we jumped right on that and in a matter of a day or two had her signed up to play on the 10-12U Ice Breaker rec team. We took her in to PIAS and Toby fitted her with everything she needed that she wasn't already getting from her brother, Jason.

I got up today at 6:45am. I know, I know. It's Saturday. I got all showered and ready and then had to wake the troops - NO ONE wanted to get up and I even let them sleep until 7:30!

At 8:30 we ran Caden over to spend the day with Grandpa. The rest of us then headed into Fairbanks. We had to be at the rink on Ft. Wainwright by 9:15 so Jason had time to lace his skates up and gear up for practice. He had the 9:45 am ice slot.

Carly's new team had the ice slot at 12:15 (at the same rink . . . yay!)

She had a great time! She may not have been the best looking skater on the ice but she really loved the one-on-one attention she got and thought all of her coaches were so nice! She is already learning player's names too. We were so happy for her. It isn't often that she finds a sport she loves and can't wait to play. Hopefully this feeling lasts for her.

We were at the rink from 9am until 2pm. It was a crazy long day, and every Saturday this month will be like this or crazier.