The Seven of Us

I've watched some amazing ball games in my life:  Some great baseball games, even as long ago as 6 years, when Kenna and Caleb played machine pitch together.  In one game they combined for a great play at first.  Many of Jimmer's games were completely amazing:  the San Diego game his senior year, some MWC games that year, the games where he scored over 50 points, the game against Florida State during March Madness his junior year.  Taylor's basketball and volleyball teams have played some awfully close high school games.  And then there are  the annual junior high basketball tournaments.  We've yelled our guts out during a few of those recently.  And I can't forgot the Border League tourney game against Holyoke 2 years ago, when we exacted some revenge on our  Least Favorite Coach Ever (Rece doubled, Darian tripled, and immediately after those two hits, Caleb had hist first home run. And it felt so good because LFC had argued with ...

It's been so long since I've blogged that I  forgot about this post. These photos were taken toward the end of summer and are representative of a couple of things Ike and Kenna did often. Kenna really loved playing "Ghost in the Graveyard" (a type of hide-and-seek) with her friends.  It was normal for a group of about 10-12 kids to play as often as 3 times a week this summer! (She wasn't happy that she only got to play about once a week.)  The last time everyone played, her friends Riley & Dawson joined the group.  (They live out of town, so that was kind of special.) Playing around with the Kurtzer kids.  This was in early August--notice Isaac's baseball-bat wound.

Field day is usually held just a couple of days before school is out.  My kids have always loved it.  The races (100 m dash and 400m run) and tug-o-war are always the highlight, but there are lots of other fun events, too:  softball toss, soccer kick, shoe kick, free throws, jump rope, hula hoop, long jump).  The kindergarten-sixth grade participate in field day and the 7/8 graders help with the events.  Here are this year's photos. Isaac, with his friends Kya Thacker, Cash Nab, and Ella Coffin. Caleb, Mason Edwards, tate Knapp, Aaron Michael, Megan Brown, Ashely murillo, and Callie Dickerson Kenna, with Eli Meakins,Molly brown, Riley Thompson, and Fernie  Isaac vs. Owen in the 100 m dash

 March was a good month for McKenna.  Early in the month she received notice that she was chosen as a winner on a coloring/design contest on the Miss O. and Friends website.  She'd entered several completed pictures in a contest in January.  her prize was a $50 American Express gift card. Wow! Add caption On March 24, Kenna turned 11.  Eleven!  Actually, it doesn't seem weird. She looks eleven and we have probably treated Kenna as an eleven year-old since she turned ten (maybe I should apologize for that). In any case, we are glad to have Kenna in our family.  She's a great daughter.   Happy birthday, Kenna Beckah!

This is Corbin with my brother Conor at Rogers Rock Park on Lake George. McKenna and Isaac walking on my parents' driveway The flower garden my mom planted along the edge of her lawn.