Summer is going way too fast. I might have to actually think about lesson plans soon and that does not sound like fun.
Some highlights from June and July: lots of hot baseball games for Isaac and us, a family trip to the Pheasants game, book club for Angie, a camping trip to Oakwood, a car accident for Skyler (not his fault), dentist appointments, doctors appointments, ortho appointments, vet appointments, wild water west, Kosama, weightlifting for Isaac, Football camp for Isaac, Bible school, Brookings children's museum, Butterfly house, a visit from my cousin Abby and her family, work at Minnehaha for Skyler, and work for Steve at Premier and the garden. More work to come since we tore apart the inside of our camper!
Friday, July 13, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Summer has just begun
I can't believe it's only the last day of May because it feels like I have been out of school forever. On the same note, when people try to make 4th of July plans with me I refuse to talk about it because that's in the middle of summer.
This past weekend we went to the Kees's hunting cabin near DeSmet. Saturday was a real bummer because it felt like winter. It was cold, dreary and misting. Did I mention windy? We definitely did not pack enough warm clothes. Sunday turned out to be sunny and fairly warm. Of course, it was windy but we were pretty sheltered near the lake where we were fishing. I use the term "we" loosely. Once I realized the fish were biting instantly, I decided to fish for a little bit. Yes, I had someone bait my hook and cast the line. Steve took the fish off... I repeated this 3 times. It's my version of fishing anyway! I did have to pick about 20 ticks off of Bo
Skyler left for boys' state on Monday. I think he's having fun. He doesn't text me, but he does give Steve a little information. He texted me tonight asking what we were doing Friday night. ( In other words, when he gets home, what does he have to look forward to) I told him Isaac has a baseball game. I don't think that's what he was looking for.
Isaac has been getting up bright and early every morning. The MS/HS student athletes are required to attend a workout every morning for an hour (four days a week). They have a 7am start or an 8 am start. They do weight lifting and sprints. I'm sure there is more but that's all he has shared with me. I can't wait for Skyler to get home so I don't have to get up so early. This week I dropped him off by 7... go home... get Josie up after Steve leaves for work.... go pick up Isaac... bring him home... than head back to Sioux Falls to work out myself. Today I made 5 trips to Sioux Falls. Not ideal. Josie is not always thrilled either because she thinks every day is Mommy and Josie day and when I leave for a bit, I'm ruining her day!
The weather has been really cool this week and not pool weather. I've taken advantage of this to clean and completely reorganize my basement. I emptied out all the closets and went through all the totes... rearranged furniture, carpet cleaned. It's been an all week process. Next week is looking nice and warm however, so I need to get it finished! Wild Water West during the day and Bible school at night. The week will go fast I'm sure.
This weekend we have a block party... with inflatables and porta potties. Apparently we invited all of Harrisburg or something. : ) It should be fun. Hope everyone else has a great weekend!
~Angie
This past weekend we went to the Kees's hunting cabin near DeSmet. Saturday was a real bummer because it felt like winter. It was cold, dreary and misting. Did I mention windy? We definitely did not pack enough warm clothes. Sunday turned out to be sunny and fairly warm. Of course, it was windy but we were pretty sheltered near the lake where we were fishing. I use the term "we" loosely. Once I realized the fish were biting instantly, I decided to fish for a little bit. Yes, I had someone bait my hook and cast the line. Steve took the fish off... I repeated this 3 times. It's my version of fishing anyway! I did have to pick about 20 ticks off of Bo
Skyler left for boys' state on Monday. I think he's having fun. He doesn't text me, but he does give Steve a little information. He texted me tonight asking what we were doing Friday night. ( In other words, when he gets home, what does he have to look forward to) I told him Isaac has a baseball game. I don't think that's what he was looking for.
Isaac has been getting up bright and early every morning. The MS/HS student athletes are required to attend a workout every morning for an hour (four days a week). They have a 7am start or an 8 am start. They do weight lifting and sprints. I'm sure there is more but that's all he has shared with me. I can't wait for Skyler to get home so I don't have to get up so early. This week I dropped him off by 7... go home... get Josie up after Steve leaves for work.... go pick up Isaac... bring him home... than head back to Sioux Falls to work out myself. Today I made 5 trips to Sioux Falls. Not ideal. Josie is not always thrilled either because she thinks every day is Mommy and Josie day and when I leave for a bit, I'm ruining her day!
The weather has been really cool this week and not pool weather. I've taken advantage of this to clean and completely reorganize my basement. I emptied out all the closets and went through all the totes... rearranged furniture, carpet cleaned. It's been an all week process. Next week is looking nice and warm however, so I need to get it finished! Wild Water West during the day and Bible school at night. The week will go fast I'm sure.
This weekend we have a block party... with inflatables and porta potties. Apparently we invited all of Harrisburg or something. : ) It should be fun. Hope everyone else has a great weekend!
~Angie
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Summertime
Today is the last day of school for the boys. I enjoyed the one on one time with Josie but it's not as easy to get away by myself without a brother to watch her. She likes to play and interact with our dogs so they have been sort of tortured the last couple of days. She is always in their faces and dancing with them, rolling around, picking them up. Finally last night I heard her say.... Mickey is so cold... he's shivering. As soon as my brain processed the information I looked at Mickey and he was having a seizure. Possibly stress induced! The dogs had a break from her today. The neighbor girl came over and played for four hours while I worked on Vacation Bible School. They were desperately begging for a craft leader in church and the boys were pointing fingers at me... so I'm looking for crafts that a 1st grader as well as a 6th grader would enjoy and can be completed in 25 minutes of time.
This weekend we are heading to DeSmet to stay with friends at their cabin. Should be fun to have a couple days away. I'm not sure if Skyler has to work or not. Enjoy the recital photos because Josie said she's not dancing again if she has to get her hair done. Lol!
Friday, April 27, 2012
Request for Revival
I haven't posted since October of 2010. I would say a few things have happened since then. : ) Simon Ross Welch was born--Skyler , Isaac and Josie's very first cousin. That's the biggest highlight of 2011. Moving on to 2012. This year has already had it's share of events... good and bad... but I hope to start this blog anew. Thanks to Betty Crabtree for the request for a blog revival. At least one person missed me. : )
We are as busy as ever in our household. Josie is sweet and sassy. She loves to play with our neighbor girl Brinly. I'm forever searching for clothes that get forgotten at the neighbor's house because they were playing dress up. They also like to pack as many bags as they can find/ carry and stuff them full of clothes, jewelry, toys, etc and take them on vacation or something. We are always missing items at the most inopportune times. She's almost finished with her first year of preschool and her second year of dance. She is taking a hip hop/ ballet combo class. She makes me laugh when she does the hip hop dancing. She gets so into it. I guess hip hop dancing isn't the only time she makes me laugh. She's had a couple of good ones this week. She was playing in the bathtub and quoting The Office. On the show, one of the characters said to another person, "I'm going to count to 10 and if you're not out of my office, I'm docking your paycheck $100) So.. later that night I hear Josie say, "1,2,3,4. If you're not out of my closet, I'm taking your money." This was probably the same night that I was hot and sweaty, in my workout clothes, and getting after her for something when she says, "Mommy you are so pretty." Lol. How do they learn to say things like that? She reminds me so much of Skyler at this age. She is his spitting image only with long hair. She's precocious, but so self-conscious.
I feel lately like I can brag so much about my kids! Isaac represented SFC's middle school in Brookings for the state geography bee. He did really well. He's also in track right now. He does shot put. At his track meet yesterday, SFC was allowed to enter two 4X100 teams. So... all the shot putters decided they were going to do a relay. They tried to use a banana as a baton and the officials wouldn't let them. Regardless, they ended up getting 4th place, which surprised me! The nights he doesn't have track, he has baseball practice. He took a year off but wanted to play this year for SFC. Lately he and his friends have been playing a game in the neighborhood of one of his friends. Basically they have two teams and a map of the area so they don't visit the same houses. It's kind of an ongoing game. One team started with a nickel and the other team a dime. They go door to door to trade for something "better". I know they traded a nickel for a quarter, then for a book about Roosevelt, then traded the book for a picture frame from Ecuador. Anyway eventually they ended up with this HUGE painting of two cheetahs. It is quite humorous. However, this family lives in an extremely nice neighborhood where there aren't a lot of children, so the mom put the kibosh on it because she was getting embarrassed.
Skyler has been really busy lately. Too busy to bug us about visiting colleges. He started a new job at Minnehaha Country Club. I'm 90 percent sure that's the correct CC. Last week he went to prom and this weekend he has a pretty big role in the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Every night this week it has been the same question. He begs us to let him sleep in or skip school so he can "save" his voice. We haven't fallen for it yet, and keep teasing him that he should only text us because he needs to save his voice. We are however, looking forward to seeing the musical and truly hope his voice holds out!
I guess you could say I had a small role in the musical by helping paint the sets. It ended up being a great deal in the long run because I tried to sign up to do my mandatory parent work time at SFC and they told me I was marked as completed already. Yay! The school year is winding down quickly with 13 days left. This year went so fast. I think the mild winter helped. I can't wait to sit at Wild Water West and relax (after my daily Kosama work out : -)) Of course, I need to try to fix the large area in our lawn that died and other various projects like cleaning out our storage room so Steve has room for his brewing equipment. If you ever stop by and you can't find him... look in the neighbor's garage. He and the neighbor do two things: run and brew beer...ok, three... they drink it too, which is why they need to run and the cycle continues. His job at Premier Bankcard continues to be a good career move. I don't like the weeks that he is on call, especially when there are problems, but he is so much happier now. If Daddy ain't happy then nobody's happy, right? Ok.... everyone in my house knows that is false.
Have a great weekend everyone. Hope to update sooner than 1.5 years.
We are as busy as ever in our household. Josie is sweet and sassy. She loves to play with our neighbor girl Brinly. I'm forever searching for clothes that get forgotten at the neighbor's house because they were playing dress up. They also like to pack as many bags as they can find/ carry and stuff them full of clothes, jewelry, toys, etc and take them on vacation or something. We are always missing items at the most inopportune times. She's almost finished with her first year of preschool and her second year of dance. She is taking a hip hop/ ballet combo class. She makes me laugh when she does the hip hop dancing. She gets so into it. I guess hip hop dancing isn't the only time she makes me laugh. She's had a couple of good ones this week. She was playing in the bathtub and quoting The Office. On the show, one of the characters said to another person, "I'm going to count to 10 and if you're not out of my office, I'm docking your paycheck $100) So.. later that night I hear Josie say, "1,2,3,4. If you're not out of my closet, I'm taking your money." This was probably the same night that I was hot and sweaty, in my workout clothes, and getting after her for something when she says, "Mommy you are so pretty." Lol. How do they learn to say things like that? She reminds me so much of Skyler at this age. She is his spitting image only with long hair. She's precocious, but so self-conscious.
I feel lately like I can brag so much about my kids! Isaac represented SFC's middle school in Brookings for the state geography bee. He did really well. He's also in track right now. He does shot put. At his track meet yesterday, SFC was allowed to enter two 4X100 teams. So... all the shot putters decided they were going to do a relay. They tried to use a banana as a baton and the officials wouldn't let them. Regardless, they ended up getting 4th place, which surprised me! The nights he doesn't have track, he has baseball practice. He took a year off but wanted to play this year for SFC. Lately he and his friends have been playing a game in the neighborhood of one of his friends. Basically they have two teams and a map of the area so they don't visit the same houses. It's kind of an ongoing game. One team started with a nickel and the other team a dime. They go door to door to trade for something "better". I know they traded a nickel for a quarter, then for a book about Roosevelt, then traded the book for a picture frame from Ecuador. Anyway eventually they ended up with this HUGE painting of two cheetahs. It is quite humorous. However, this family lives in an extremely nice neighborhood where there aren't a lot of children, so the mom put the kibosh on it because she was getting embarrassed.
Skyler has been really busy lately. Too busy to bug us about visiting colleges. He started a new job at Minnehaha Country Club. I'm 90 percent sure that's the correct CC. Last week he went to prom and this weekend he has a pretty big role in the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Every night this week it has been the same question. He begs us to let him sleep in or skip school so he can "save" his voice. We haven't fallen for it yet, and keep teasing him that he should only text us because he needs to save his voice. We are however, looking forward to seeing the musical and truly hope his voice holds out!
I guess you could say I had a small role in the musical by helping paint the sets. It ended up being a great deal in the long run because I tried to sign up to do my mandatory parent work time at SFC and they told me I was marked as completed already. Yay! The school year is winding down quickly with 13 days left. This year went so fast. I think the mild winter helped. I can't wait to sit at Wild Water West and relax (after my daily Kosama work out : -)) Of course, I need to try to fix the large area in our lawn that died and other various projects like cleaning out our storage room so Steve has room for his brewing equipment. If you ever stop by and you can't find him... look in the neighbor's garage. He and the neighbor do two things: run and brew beer...ok, three... they drink it too, which is why they need to run and the cycle continues. His job at Premier Bankcard continues to be a good career move. I don't like the weeks that he is on call, especially when there are problems, but he is so much happier now. If Daddy ain't happy then nobody's happy, right? Ok.... everyone in my house knows that is false.
Have a great weekend everyone. Hope to update sooner than 1.5 years.
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