Sunset on the farm

The cloud formations were just the coolest, so I had to run into the house to get my camera, I know, "why weren't you wearing it?"....I was out doing some chores.....

Give a kid a camera....

...and this is what you get back

...one decent shot...

...and then....

really?....

...nice.....

I sent the old digital camera up north with the "crew" and this is 5 of the 85 photos taken....you can guess by the majority of these that the remaining 80 are about as nice....and relevent as these are. Rather funny to look at I guess, as an objective observer, but seriously.....do they do any hunting up there?

EXPO weekend

We were in WAUSAU for the weekend for s Stamp & Scrap EXPO. After work on Friday we packed up the Torrent with supplies for the Make & Takes, stuff to sell and things to display them with...and took off. We had just enough room to each have a seat!
After unloading the works, setting them up and beautifying it all we headed for the hotel. Since we had some time to kill before bed and needed a little snack, we headed to the Hudson Grill...after crossing the 4 lane highway twice (that's another story)....to find a cool car themed restaurant/bar. It looked like a scene out of "CARS" the cartoon movie, but with real cars and road signs. They served "Lug Nuts" (deep fried cheese curds) and "Piston Rings" (onion rings)...as well as $1.99 margaritas, all day, all the time! We were in margarita heaven.

Retreat weekend

We were housed in the "REFRESH" room

Two of the jacuzzi tubs in the 4 season room

Room for 16 in the scrapbook room

Our quarters for the weekend....4 single beds, one full bath and a sink/mirror outside so we could all dress for the day without getting in each others way. Oh, and the beds were SUPER COMFY!!

Living room to dining area. Through those windows in the background is the store I work for....just steps away from scrapbook heaven!!

What an awesome weekend that went WAY TOO FAST. I got to meet a lot of great people and reconnect with some friends too. COPIC markers ROCK too.

Thank you SALLY LYNN for the awesome classes.

Flower pounding video!!

After spending HOURS uploading this....here it is!!

kids

my boys being silly.

taking a picture of me taking a picture....where have I seen that one before??

Dedication

Little Autumn, my how's she's grown.

For someone who started out life less than two pounds, she has grown a bunch!  These are photos from her Dedication party on Mother's Day..yeah, I am a little behind....

Second to last run...

Zero minutes, 8 laps to go....
A photo from the Regional race.  Nick finished in 4th, just behind the two boys in blue that are behind him in the photo.  This put him in the Sectional race where he was seeded 10th and finished 10th.  A great first year for his High School Track season.

I am just glad it's over.  We had fabulous weather for almost the entire season....except those last two races where it rained.

Now I have to get the album pages done.....

Last run

The Q-man had his last run tonight.  This is his take-off in the 1600.  I was running the timing table, so I got an up close photo...and that was it after that...I was in charge of the timing afterall...can't be taking photos and pushing the button at the same time!  I believe he came in 5th in this one.  I was in charge of first place finisher, so I am only sure of the guy who crossed first.

Track night

The CITY track meet.  All four schools in the EC area competed.

Two D1 schools and two D3 schools

The 3200 team

(blurry again)

Nick

now that's what we call DRAFTING...really

The photos are a little out of order....the bottom one is from early on in the race, probably the first two-three laps and then after that the boys in green took over the lead.  Actually, the last four guys in the bottom photo, that is the finish order. Brian, Nick, other kid and Dave.

Nick had a personal best time of 10:45...our school record for a freshman is 10:26....he's working on it (four more races).  The all time school record is 9:55....Brian is working on that one.  That 9:55 record happens to be held by Nick's Uncle Joel.