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.
