The Muckdogs

Both Jacquelyn and Zachary played baseball this spring.  There was at least one girl on every team.  Much less girl participants than the prior years playing on the Diamondbacks.  Didn't bother Jackie at all.  You go girl!   Girl's softball  league doesn't start for a few more years.   They had to get to know new coaches, teammates and rules.  It was a fun season with some good hits and plays.  It's fun to watch the skills develop.  Zac is quite serious  when playing team sports, or any sport for that matter.  Chuck enjoyed helping the coaches when he could peel away from work.  He has decided he really wants to coach a team next year.  Both kids look forward to that!

Mother's Day

I got my wishes on Mother's Day.  I wanted to be outdoors to enjoy bursting spring and take pictures of cooperative subjects.  We took a walk in a cemetery.  Yup, weird I know.   But the Mount Auborn Cemetery is beautiful, just like a botanical garden.  We've done this before and I took way more photo's than this time, even made a photo book of it from the last time.  This time, I just wanted to get a few of my family.

Spring Forward

I am so behind in blogging, so here's a season of happenings come spring 2011. We attended a 20 year anniversary banquet for the kid's karate school. The kids enjoyed the desserts, pie eating contest, dancing and seeing their mentors receive awards.

The school hosted an open house. The second graders were assigned to do a biography report. Each student was assigned a famous historical American to study. They were to turn in a written report, dress as the person and be able to recite information about themselves during a 'wax museum' presentation for parents. Jackie was assigned to be Henry
Ford and Zac was assigned to be Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jackie's pottery was chosen to be displayed in the annual public school art display.

The kid's favorite part of spring is Easter's egg hunt. I think it rates as high as Christmas morning for excitement. It becomes a race to see who can find the most eggs. But in the end they dump them all in one pile to share.