2019 Blue Jeans Week 47

Hello!  We have had a good week.  Miss E was burning the candle at both ends with two-a-day basketball practice.  One thing we are thankful for is that is OVER!  She is excited about her last season of basketball.  She has been playing with the same girls since 7th grade, so to see them still together as seniors is awesome!  Cross country banquet this week.  Miss O's roommate got married, and we had a backyard visitor.  SO much to be thankful for!  Take a look....

I am thankful for nature.  We have had a lot of deer visiting our back yard lately. This buck is beautiful, and he just watched us as we watched him out the big kitchen windows.

I am thankful for great coaches that have been a huge influence for good in my life as well as all 4 of my kids' lives!  Cross country banquet, Miss E honored as a senior by the same coach I had when I ran cross country in HS.  He is a gem!  

I am thankful for good friends for my kids.  Mr J and the other freshman boys honored in the cross country banquet. 

I am thankful for strong girls that work hard, and no one has worked harder than these girls on our varsity cross country team.  They supported each other and encouraged and worked SO HARD to get the whole team to state, which hasn't happened for our girls team in over 15 years!  So proud of all of them and so proud Miss E was part of the state bound team her senior year!

So thankful for the good roommates Miss O has had.  She started college with 5 other roommates and knew nothing about any of them.  They have become the best of friends, and one of them got married this last weekend.  Such beautiful, strong and talented young women!

So thankful for good friends that you can have fun with!  Sure love these girls and so grateful for their being a part of Miss O's life!  Lifelong friends!!!

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!  

2019 Blue Jeans Week 46

 A slower week with no sports practices or anything, nice weather, and it was a good week.  Take a look....

Mr J and Ben doing the dishes together one night.  Love it!

A beautiful sunset on a lake near our home as we walked one evening.  So beautiful!

Making chocolate chip cookies.  A family favorite.  

School board meeting this week, and we were presented with a check from a local business that supports education.  So grateful for the good people in our town!

We had really nice weather, so Ben and the kids took advantage of the 60 degree sunny weather to get the Christmas lights up before Thanksgiving and it gets cold and yucky.  We won't turn them on until after Thanksgiving, but nice to have it done!

Enjoying the fall weather and leaves!

Hope you have a great week!  Thanks for visiting!

2019 Blue Jeans Week 45

Had a beautiful fall week.  It was a slower week as we are in between sports right now, which is nice.  We had nice weather and enjoyed being outside this week.  Take a look...

Miss E getting some basketball shots in this week.  She has one more free week before basketball practice starts, and she has enjoyed the break, but she is excited for basketball!

Girls' Lunch Out with these ladies!  Sure love them!!!

Mr J was at a school conference this week with one of this teachers and these great kids, and while he was there he entered a writing competition and won!  He was super excited!  

Getting some school pictures taken and loving the fall leaves!

I donated blood this week.  I do fine as long as I don't look at what they are doing :)

We had a gorgeous weekend with sunny weather in the 60's and went on a wonderful bike ride with some friends.  We love all the bike trails around where we live!

Stopped at a candy store along our bike ride to get us some extra energy.  Yummy!

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you had a great week!

2019 Blue Jeans Week 44

Super exciting week as we had an award for Miss A, Halloween, first snow, state cross country that both Mr J and Miss E got to compete in and other fun stuff.  It was awesome!  Take a look at our week...

Ben got some new games for his birthday, so Sunday afternoon he was teaching us how to play Sushi Go Party.  Pretty fun!

Miss A worked really hard and received a university writing award.  So proud of her!!!

Mr J was able to participate in a piano workshop this week with a visiting professional pianist.

Our Halloween pumpkins.  Love the different colored lights Ben put in this year.

We woke up on Halloween to snow!  We rarely get snow before Christmas, but even less often before Halloween!  Fall dressed up like winter for Halloween!

Ben's work for Halloween.  They were super fans :)

And then these kids and their teams headed off to state cross country about 2 1/2 hours away.  They left Friday afternoon, and their races were Saturday morning.  How cool they got to go together!

Miss E's team having their team prayer before their final cross country race--Miss E's last cross country race ever!  Yes, I shed some tears!

Running her race!  This was a very hard course.  They were either going uphill or downhill.  There was not a straight level part of the course, but Miss E rocked it and got her best time of the whole season!

This was her sprinting to the finish.  I jumped, and screamed and cried.  So proud of this senior girl of mine!  What an amazing way to end her senior season of cross country!!!

And what an amazing way for this kid to end his freshman year of cross country!  So proud of him!!! One of two freshman on the varsity team!   

It is all over, and so proud of these two!!!!  Awesome to experience it together!

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you had a great week!