I had a hard time sitting down to write this tonight. The weather has been so great and I had a very nice weekend that writing this felt a bit like work this week. However, if I don't keep going I'll let my 2 fans down. : )
The weather has just been amazing and we have been trying to be out as much as we can. I love having the windows open but that lead to some major allergy issues for me this week. My head was so full and the sneezing was nonstop. I did have a few minutes where I was begging for a nice hard freeze. Then I spent a lazy afternoon on the boat (sneezing the whole time) and thought that a few more really nice weekends would be great. At least get us through the last home football game.
Jordan and Abbey had a dual XC meet at Ballard on Monday. This is one of the states largest meets of the season. Some 40+ teams, boys and girls. Abbey ran very well this week. We were really proud of her effort. She looked more confident and seemed a bit more competitive always trying to get to that next group of runners. She finished 123rd out of 141 with a time of 18:19. Jordan looked good again this week. There were 22 schools in his race which is approximately 154 runners on the course. Yikes. You had better hope you don't fall or get pushed when the gun goes off. He finished 31st with a time of 18:34. 1 second faster than last week and 5th for DCG. There is a very close battle for the 5th, 6th, and 7th spots on the varsity team. Those 3 boys finished right next to each other. Makes the race to the chute very exciting. The rest of the week for the older two was dedicated to homework and jobs. Abbey had a couple of babysitting jobs and Jordan put in three shifts at Kum & Go. He is definitely liking that paycheck and so are we.
Carson had his first field trip this week. They spent most of the day at an apple orchard. He loved riding the hayrack and picking apples. His favorite thing was getting to ride a bus to the apple orchard. The morning of the trip I said something about the bus and he immediately did the fist pump with a jubilant "yes"! He told me he needed to call Dad right away and tell him that he was going to ride a bus. So...we called Dad right away and told him that Carson was riding a bus.
Emma had a pretty good week if you cut out Friday afternoon when she threw up all over the backseat of the suburban just as we were backing out to get Carson from school. YUCK!! She laid on my lap all night and had a good nights sleep. Never puked again. Whew! She woke up Saturday morning saying she felt much better and was the only taker when we asked who wanted to go for a boat ride.
Dana and I have had a very good week. He was home every night this week. We had a fun night bowling which we followed with some Buck Hunter (video game) for Dana and karaoke for me. No one would sing with me so Krista asked a really nice gentleman if he would sing and he graciously said yes. I haven't sang in public for a very long time so that was definitely stepping out of the box.
We really enjoyed our Saturday out on the boat. With just Emma with us we were able to just relax and float the day away. We don't have many more of those left this season. It is fun to watch the birds follow behind the boat and try to catch the little fish that jump up behind us. Dana then surprised me later in the evening by taking me out for sushi. It was so great! Beer, sushi, and time alone with Dana. Then we went to a friend's house to hang out with two of the guys Dana graduated from high school with. Rick lives in Des Moines and Mike lives in Davenport. He was back in the area for some work related activity and we spent the evening catching up.
We have a busy couple of weeks coming up but after a weekend like this I think I am ready.
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