Growing Up

I can not believe that I have a kid who will be in middle school next year! We went to Shermie's graduation from elementary school today.

He has had some great people teaching him these last few years. His teacher Mrs. Lynch has been wonderful. We will really miss his principal Mr. Schmaltz as he will be retiring this year. He has been so good to all of the kids.

The graduation program had a dvd of the kids through the year and was full of music. A little too much music for Boo who fell asleep.

They sang this in Kindergarten it made me cry then and it did this time too. Here is the picture from kindergarten.

I am so proud of Shermie and the work he does in school. He is so smart and loves to read. I don't know if I am ready for him to go to middle school...

 ...But I know he is.

 Next year will bring new adventures!

Tri...Tri...Tri Again

Had a great weekend with my mom sister and sister in-law at the Women of Steel.  The weather could not have been better. I had been worried that it was going to be rainy and cold as we had been warned. But the morning of the race the sun came out and it warmed up nicely without being too hot. There were 739 women who finished the race. Starting at the pool we lined up according to our time for the 300 meter. They would let swimmers into the pool every twelve seconds.

The swim went like this:

(those are some mad paint brush skills right there)The pool was kind of crazy because no one was in a really good order of swim times. Either because people didn't know their time or weren't asking others what their times were. This lead to a lot of congestion during the swim. I didn't like that they added time to your swim by having the timer at the gate but I guess I would rather that then the timer mess up my start and stop times. At any rate the pool was over quickly enough and we were on to the bike course.

The bike course made two loops around a pretty little neighborhood and the cemetery. On one side of the loop it went up hill for a bit then was flat, then it hit the down hill.  I loved the bike course especially how fast you could get going on the down hill.

Why, yes that is snow covering the mountain behind me!

The run went along part of the bike route with the same up and down hills but we only had to do one loop.

I finished my race then went back to find Mande and Jessie, who started later, to cheer them in.

It was a really super race and we can officially say we are Women of Steel!

Thanks Jessie for suggesting this race. I had so much fun, What a great experience. I'm glad to have shared it with some of the Awesome women in my life.

Here are my times:

Swim-00:08:53.232
T1- 00:04:37.810
Bike-00:51:17.958
T2- 00:03:27.507
Run- 00:35:16.284
Total Time- 01:43:32
Place-120

This is the necklace we received at the end of the race. So cute!

While we were racing my mom was dealing with getting the car towed(battery went bad), while running back and forth cheering us on and snapping pictures. Yep, She is a Woman of Steel too. Thank you, Mom! We ended the weekend with some nice relaxing shop therapy. Fantastic!

TWO!

I can't believe she is two! My little princess.

She was so excited to get dressed up for her birthday. When I asked her if she wanted me to do her hair she said,"oh, yes!" when I got done she said, " oh, love it." I  love that she is such a girly girl!

She makes us smile and laugh every day!

Not to bad for my lack of experience doing little girl hair.

She is so Pretty!

Grandma got her a bunch of cute outfits and a fluffy white puppy that she absolutely loved!!!

She was also very excited over the kitchen set that she got from Gramie and Pop pop, but the box was the big hit with the boys!

Let The Hot Dogs Roll

Just a few pictures of the boys playing baseball.

During the baseball season with four boys and three different teams, we live at the ball field. The dinner of choice of course is hot dogs, cheese fries and an occasional frito pie. That's a lot of dogs.

Having Matthew and Tuffer on the same team has been nice. I like watching the two of them playing together.

 Sherman and Steve are coaching Shermie's team this year. Let's just say they are a work in progress.

 Annalyn loves to cheer for the boys.

 Nicholas' team is funny to watch.  Mostly because Nic is such a nut!

 He has gotten some good hits.

 He may turn out to be a good catcher but I think he just likes the equipment.

 Annalyn with ketchup corners.

Buy the time the season is over we will be full of both baseball and hot dogs. But hey what am I complaining about...week night entertainment with the family, cheap no cook dinner...I'm all over that!

100 Years

Appleton Elementary turned 100 this years old this year.

Poppies!

I had two bloom this year!

Better Safe Than Sorry

We had some concerns about Matthews heart so the doctor thought he should get an electrocardiography done.

Everything turned out to be fine with nothing to worry about.