Dog Days of Summer
Posted by Chris in Uncategorized on June 3, 2010
So the dog has cometh. His name is Cody and he has now been with us a few weeks. He is absolutely the cutest dog in the world and after you pet him you will fall in love. He is OH so soft. He just turned 12 weeks and has been just amazinig. The family is working with Dan the dog man, so I guess you can say we are being trained… He already has learned to sit and lay down he will come if there are not tons of distractions.
OK it is not long to D day!Weston V Wayland A Hard Battle
Weston Varsity and JV traveled to Wayland yesterday for lacrosse. Wayland is a great team and this showed right from the beginning. Weston was off to a rocky start with way to many turn-overs and poor ball control. That said, Weston stuck with it and kept the game to 1 point and then a tie. As the game went on Weston gained confidence and scoring chances. Jared stood strong in net, many times standing on his head to make an amazing save. Weston pressed hard and gained the lead and moments later took the lead to two points. A decent attack by Wayland brought the lead back to one. A couple penalties/technical fouls landed Weston in the box giving Wayland the opportunity to tie the game, which they did with little effort. With the tie in hand and no time left the match went into overtime. Wayland maintained the ball and drove a number of hard attempts at the net. At one point it looked as though Weston was done for. A great shot is stopped with an even better save. But in front of the net and in the air the ball seems to just stall waiting for an attackman. The Wayland attack snags the ball and has an open net. It was oh so close to being over… But the Weston defense comes to the rescue and clears the attack and the ball. Weston transistions and sets up for the attack. Weston shifts the ball and then moves it back up top to Chase who dodges left then right and makes a leaping shot to the low left side to win the game.
Pictures of both the Varsity and JV games can be found here.
I took video of Chase at this game instead of pictures.
McCrae Posts Up for NESLL Blue
McCrae played Goalie for the NESLL blue team this weekend (video here) and then rushed over the the NESLL black game as an attack men (pictures here) and then we were off the the stadium to watch the Ivy play (Dartmouth kicked butt on Cornell - Mom was very happy).
McCrae Meets A Few Bruins
The ultimate sports fan went to Warick RI today to meet four of the Bruins (Thomas, Rask, Lucic and Sturm). Beyond collecting stats McCrae has started a pretty good collection of signed photos. Today he had Sturm sign a Winter Classic photo, Lucic signed a knee hockey stick, Rask signed a goalie helmet and Thomas signed a photo.
McCrae Takes The Net
McCrae has decided to try out a new position on the turf. For some unknown reason he has decided to let people fire the ball at him. This weekend at the Lexington Face Off McCrae played goalie on Sunday and on Saturday he played his typical position as a shooter. On the field he racked up 12 goals and 7 assists and in net over two games he had 21 saves with one goal against and a shut out. You can see his goalie pictures here http://chriswilliams.smugmug.com/keyword/mccrae%20goalie#P-1-25.
McCrae Wins National Wildlife Photo Contest
Posted by Chris in Art, McCrae, Photography, Travel on March 10, 2010
McCrae just heard back from the National Wildlife Federation that he has been selected as the winner of the under 13 photo contest. His pictures will be featured in Range Rick in August. WOW so cool.
McCrae took the winning pictures while on safari in South Africa last year with the family and his grandparents Roberta and Bruce Williams. If you want to see all his shots go here and the pictures tagged with McCrae are his. He is all excited now to turn 13 because then the contest winners get cold hard cash. Below are his two winning pictures, the letter from the editor and a shot I took of him in action. Well maybe he was not totally in action since we were stopped for a cookie and Billtong (basically any old meat dried in the sun) break. McCrae could not get enough of the Billtong but Grammy stuck with cookies.
Dear McCrae,
It’s my pleasure to let you know that two of your photographs have been selected as winners in Ranger Rick’s Photo Contest.
Congratulations on your wonderful shots of a zebra and impalas in South Africa.Your photographs soon will be featured on the Ranger Rick website and will appear in the pages of the August 2010 issue of Ranger Rick magazine. (You will be receiving complimentary copies of the magazine featuring your photos.)
Again, congratulations from everyone at Ranger Rick! Keep up the good work, McCrae!
-Michele Reyzer
NWF’s mission is to inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our children’s future.
Michele Reyzer – Assistant Editor
Ranger Rick magazine
National Wildlife Federation
11000 Wildlife Center Drive
Reston, VA 20190
www.nwf.org
No Rest For The Wicked
Hockey is over and before you know it, or I guess I should say before I knew it, we were standing on a lacrosse field. I’ve been traveling with Chase to meet college lacrosse coaches and both Chase and McCrae have started lacrosse practice. The Weston Varsity has started captain practice and have started running. I hear there is a mess in aisle 4 that needs to be cleaned up. Weston Youth Lacrosse has also started practicing in the gym. McCrae’s NESLL team played last weekend in their first tournament at the Harvard bubble which for NESLL is the event that kicks off the year. I guess the week before the bubble had popped and had to be evacuated… that must have been an interesting situation. The u13 NESLL black and NESLL blue teams have a number of Weston kids playing (McCrae, Tommy R, Matt P and Frank B).
I shot pictures of McCrae’s team (Matt, Frank and McCrae) but there are a few pictures of Tommy as well since we played his team twice. You can see them here http://chriswilliams.smugmug.com/McCrae-Lacrosse/NESLL/NESLL-March-Madness-2010/11441829_KJbKy#804483670_cdwgr.
Last fall I started shooting some video and plan to do more of this for the lacrosse season. But this is a little tentative as the editing time is tough and my video editing solution from ADOBE is VERY VERY unreliable… You can find the video on my youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/chrisdiannefamily.
Nail Biter At Lowell
Last night Weston played Lowell at Lowell. You know the rink that seems to always have the ice tilted in the wrong direction. I have not asked our stats man, but I cannot remember a game we have won in that building, well before last nights game that is. The other thing that strikes me about that rink is how warm it is. Although Weston won 2:1 they were not hot and certainly did not play their best game. The hockey gods were with us, with a number of shots ringing out against the post, ending back in play versus in the back of the net. Although a few post clangers got by Sam he had another amazing game, which has become the standard. Check out this picture of a stop made in heavy traffic. Bart’s picture sums up all three periods!
