Soccer MADNESS

Last night was the start of indoor soccer for Derek. He's been looking forward to it for a couple of months now. He decided to put a team together while they were all playing in the league here on base. Anyway, the games start times are kind of crazy ranging from 8:30 to 11:20. Of course, Derek's team started at 11:20 last night. I would have liked to have gone and I know Derek wanted us to come and watch, but it was just too late for the girls.

Anyway, 10 minutes into the game someone plowed into Derek and left a huge gash in his forehead, broke his nose and messed up his knee. It was really weird because after I was in bed last night I had a feeling that I should come down and get my cell phone in case Derek's truck wouldn't start or something. I woke up at 1:30 knowing that he should be home and went down and saw that I had 4 missed calls on my cell phone and a new voicemail. It was Derek calling on Lauire's phone telling me everything that happened and that they were on the way to the ER. I tried calling Derek, Joe and Laurie and no one would answer so I got the girls up and we headed into the ER to see him. Just as I had pulled on base Laurie called to fill me in on everything and said he was fine and that they would bring him home........but I was practically there so we stayed.

I have a feeling he won't be playing any more soccer for the rest of this league (against his will of course). His nose is pretty bad and he can hardly walk with his knee being so messed up. (I guess it's just a big ball of blood in there.) It was funny because he was crawling up the stairs last night and then this morning little miss Allie was hobbling down the stairs saying her knee hurt!

Derek is going in today to try and get his nose back into place........