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I thought this was going to be an easy project. But like most sites we are experincing problems. When I get them worked out the blogging will resume.

8th grade Promotion

Well last night marks the end of Middle School for Jacob. He got dressed up, spent the evening with friends reminiscing about the past 3 yrs. It was a great evening. Then it was time for the kids to receive their certificates, and the one thing the Mother's have nightmares about happened. THE BATTERIES IN THE CAMERA DIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe it and of course I didn't have any spares. So here I am looking around and waiting for some parent to make eye contact with me so I could charade my problem to them. Well, thank heavens Nancy was looking around at the crowd and not the kids. And she is quick to realize my problem and took pictures of Jacob. Thanks to Nancy!!! So when I get the pics I will publish them.

All in all, it was a great evening. 123 8th graders stepped across the stage, ending one chapter in their lives and starting a new one. Congrats to all and Good Luck in High School!!

Hey Heather!!

Just to let you know that I have updated the blog. :)

May

Well May has come in and I feel like it is almost over. Things are starting to move very fast. We only have 10 days of school left.
Track is almost over for the girls and they are moving on to Softball. They are playing on a travel team and this weekend will kick off our season. They play on the 12 and under team. So between school, Track prac til 5 M-W, track meets on Thursday. Softball Prac. 6-9 two nights a week, 4-H activities, and now games on weekends our summer is going to be over before we know it. They girls will also play league softball 2 nights a week. Hannah will start swim team the monday after school gets out and swim 7 days a week. 6 Practicing - 1 day competition. Oh, and lets not forget summer camps to.

Jacob, is trying to get a job to fill his days. We will see how that works. He starts drivers ed the week after school gets out and goes for about 3 weeks. He has baseball practices every sunday for 3 hrs. and he will play ball 2 nights a week. He is now done with wrestling for the yr. he finished with freestyle last week. Jacob loves wrestling and can not wait to go to a High school wrestling camp this summer in Colorado.

Mark, we don't get to see much. My wonderful husband is so busy this time of yr. I am sure that he doesn't hear enough how much we really appreciate him and all the hard work he does for us. He goes to work early and comes home late. I would love to win the lottery and tell him that he never has to go back to work. What a dream, huh.

Well the evening is winding down and I need to get kids to bed and the car packed for the weekend. Did I mention we will be at the ball field All Weekend?? Better this then wondering where my kids are.

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful Mothers.

Made Quilts for the girls.

Last weekend we cleaned out the girls clothes. And do you ever have those favorite clothes you just can't part with. Well, the girls had some and even though they couldn't wear them, they couldn't seem to part with them either. So I told the girls to collect all their favorites. We also had softball shirts that had names on them that nobody else would want. I cut all of them up and made the scraps into a quilt. And then I ran out of time so my mother sewed on the backing.
It was a hit with the girls. They talk about all the pieces and what they remember out that moment.

I had a blast making this for them.

Jacob's Turkey

Jacob is really into hunting. This time a year it is Spring Turkey Hunting. Well Jacob went out last weekend and didn't get anything. Tonight he got lucky and brought home a tom. So this weekend we will be eating turkey.

Got to check it out.

Nice Turkey. Jacobs 2nd one.

Weeding out old clothes.

We spent the whole afternoon going through all the clothes the girls had. They had to get down to 2 dressers. What a chore, if the whining and the who is doing more arguments would have stopped, we would have been done in about 2 hrs. Instead of that it took almost 4. Atleast we are done and the girls got rid of 4 bags of clothes.

After the weekend of cleaning and going through clothes I will be happy when Monday rolls around and I can go back to work.