Cross Country Season

Getting ready to start the Final Race of the season and as an 8th Grader
**Note to Blake...DO NOT put Dawn in the dishwasher!!**

Third Meet of the season...headed to the Finish Line

Second Meet of the season

Beginning of the District Meet...aprox. 180 8th grade boys from the entire district ran this race tonight.

Midway through the race...the course was about 1.8 miles

Blake headed for the Finish Line...came in 87th. Not bad out of 180! His time was 11 minutes 30 seconds. I think it was his best time of the season. Now, he gets to decide whether or not to do this next year in High School.

September Update

Well, I had intended to add more to the blog this school year. I guess I am doing better than last year. Hurricane Ike kind of threw everyone's plans off kilter.

We survived Ike a few weeks ago. We had little damage to our house. A few shingles lost, lost of leaves and branches in the yard and a little water leaked in through the attic onto the living room ceiling. Listening to the storm was a little scary. It started getting really windy around midnight and just picked up from there. The kids ended up sleeping downstairs in our closet that night. We lost power for just under 2 days. It was good that the neighbors had a generator and we were able to save our frozen meat. For several days, we had cookouts with the neighbors. We ended up being out of school for 7 school days. Now, we get the luxury of making up at least 3 of those missed days. It has been almost like starting the year all over again.

The kids have been busy this year. Blake has had lots more homework and is learning he has to actually study. I think he takes after me...I never studied and made it through. I have had to really go back and refresh my memory with Algebra I. Spanish...he's on his own! Those are both high school credit classes. He is also running cross country again this year. He was torn between that or football. He has done pretty well at the meets...coming in in the 30s out of 100+ runners. They have 2 more meets to go.

Kendall has also been busy this year in 4th grade. She does her homework without a fight. She is finally learning to like reading for fun now too. This is also the year of having to learn all of those dreaded states and capitals. The projects have already begun! Both kids have started swimming lessons to prepare them for swim team. Kendall's coach has already asked her to please join swim team. This place is pretty hard-core about their swimming so I know once we sign her up, we will live to swim. Maybe this will be her thing though. She refuses to play a sport involving a ball unless it's golf!