Kids Updates.......

The REAL Ocho Cinco.......

Week number 3 of the High School football season is in the books, the Central sophomore team is 2-1, with wins over Muscatine (week 1) and North Scott last Friday. Their lone defeat was at Burlington last week, all three games have been extremely close scores, coming down to the last minutes of each game. The varsity team is 0-3, but they are not all that bad, the scores have not been blowouts.

Gabe is not getting much playing time, except on special teams and some series at outside linebacker. He sat out of Fridays game in Eldridge, a result of a concussion from earlier in the week during practice that caused him to miss a day of school.

Gabe, now a member of the Central Singers Inc., the varsity show choir team, will spend this week entrenched in rehearsals each day after football practice till 9pm. Their hired choreographer is in town for the week. Should be a long week!
He has gotten off to a great start in school, taking physics, Spanish, choir and a life guard class and he is also playing on a soccer team which plays games on Sundays around the area.

Abbi Update

Abbi starting swimming this week with the Metro team at Central, she was very excited to get back in the pool. In the spring/summer session, about 20 kids would show for practice. Now they have about 60 kids participating...thank you Michael Phelps! Dads Club soccer games were to start yesterday, but rain postponed the first weeks worth of games, we're working on 3 days straight of rain in the Quad Cities.

We were told by Abbi at the end of the school year she wanted to take violin lessons at school with the music instructor, so we rented a violin from the guy who works on my guitars. She is very excited and has been practicing a lot. Her friends seem quite jealous when she takes the violin out to show off!
Photo Above: Ambrose likes napping near the laundry area, Abbi decided to cover him up!

Elli Happenings

Elli is keeping herself busy with her Dads Club soccer team as well as her select team that plays on Sundays. Dads Club practice is Wednesday, select team is Tuesday and Thursday. Flag football practice is Wednesday after soccer, first game is next week. Both girls alternate scout meetings on Wednesdays before soccer. Wednesday are a little hectic, we call them...'crock pot' days.

A few weeks back Tiff and girls were bored so they decided to dress up the dog and have some fun. Elli is posing with Ambrose in his soccer uniform and in the photo to the left Ambrose declares who his favorite baseball team is......Go Cubs Go!

Need More Cowbell????

The Rock Star we know as Gabe did a very nice thing yesterday for a friend in need.

You might recall a few posts back about our night at the ballpark in honor of our friend Davenport Firefighter Bob Juarez. Well, Gabe and his bandmate Drew Hence came up with a way to help with a benefit concert featuring some other bands at Central. A great idea! 'Rock For Juarez!...A Benefit Concert' was born.

The idea came a couple months ago from the boys, they asked if I could help. I gave them a list of some things to check on, but I thought the task would be too much to put together. It wasn't until Drew's dad Dan, the manager at the Stoney Creek Inn in Moline offered their banquet room for the event at no charge.....then the ball started rolling.

He gave the boys a date and said he would sell pop and candy at the bar. The boys got four other acts involved including a friend of Drews who played in a cover band at bars in our area that had a decent sound system.

We printed over 500 fliers and the event was included on various media reports about Bob's progress. Signs on schools in Davenport mentioned the event as well. $5 to get in, donations welcomed.

After weeks of rehearsal, the foursome known as Racing Sunsets was the third act of the day, following the Demon Ducks, leading into Firesale. They played for about 45 minutes mostly cover songs with a couple originals mixed in.

After load in yesterday before the gig, I decided to go home and get my Les Paul electric guitar for Luke Bergman to play, I knew how much he likes it, he drools over it when he comes over.

More than 100 people attended and most stayed for a long time. The efforts of the boys raised almost $1300 for Bob's fund. The Argus/Dispatch sent a report and photographer, it was on the front page of the paper this morning! Good Job Boy!

Tiff took a bunch of photos, once she downloads them off the camera we'll get a few posted.