Sunday, July 26, 2009

Mali wins!

That's the swim meet news through the grapevine. I don't know what events or anything else - hopefully more news will be reaching me soon.

I am stuck at work. I even had to cancel my golf game with my dad and brothers tomorrow. Wednesday I go work in Portland for a couple of days.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Swim Meet

Mali had a great swim meet! She won her freestyle - or at least her heat - and won the backstroke easily. Her freestyle relay won easily too.
Andrew stayed home sick - he has a sore throat again.

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Grandpa Turns 70!

Huge birthday bash for the old man - Over fifty people at the house - and still there was food leftover! LOTS of family and old friends there to help him celebrate. The brothers played a lot of lawn darts. Andrew won money, mostly at the Hillbilly (Ladder) Golf game. Denny's lawn-dart injury from the night/early-morning before (punctured foot, swollen), and David's still swollen finger (bicycle vs parked car) gave them excuses, but they narrowly avoided losing big to John and I in the lawn-dart game.

I took some photos of the grandkid group with my iPhone, but nothing worth sharing here. I'm hoping someone with a more substantial camera got a better shot, but it appears the distracted nature of the subjects is the issue. Below is a photo of Mali destroying the piñata fish on her first swing.

Mary brought the piñata, along with other activities for the kids. Mali spent most of the party carrying Cooper around. He was a maniac at the party, but it could have been lack of sleep and/or sugar intake contributing to that. Dalton and Conner spent most of their time playing with the new lawn beanbag game. Rylin was grumpy, but I finally got her to acknowledge my existence by allowing her to chase me around the yard.
Mali and the piñata fish.

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Andrew gets a 5!

Andrew gets a 5 on his AP US history test - the highest grade possible! Any grade 3 or higher qualifies the class to count for college credit.

Andrew called and paid $8 to get the results early. Folks not as excited about the test results have another month or so before the news is mailed out.