Fun Fun Fun

Joe is grouped with his buddies as they prepare to do their Fun Run (Joe in the center). He had a good time and was fortunate enough to be watched by his Dad and Aunt Becky. Thanks to Becky for the pictures!!

Kelsie got to dress up like a little Norwegian and march and dance in the parade with some fellow kindergarten classmates. She actually was in the parade three times; kindergarten, wrestling and dance class. She was tired at the end of the day.

Joe was allowed to hang out with friends after school Friday at the local carnival and he even had two friends from the above picture spend the night. Kelsie also got a friend to spend the night Friday. Chad and I were brave enough to even take two kids that will be two in August. All was going well until one of them woke up at 11:30 pm and was waking everybody up in the house. She went home with grandma about 12:00 and then an hour later we got woken up again by the other child's parent. Saturday I was lacking sleep but that wasn't going to stop me from going out.

Saturday Kelsie and I with Kelli Lorentz went to the cornation as it's our tradition to go together and we joke around that when Kelsie runs that LP Landscape is going to be her sponser. Then after that we dropped the kids off at Grandma and Steve's house and Mom and Dad went out. Man did I have fun!!!!!!! We went to the tent and then to PD and then to the Cubby Hole and then to Katie and Krista's (neighbors) and then home. We then went to bed about 4:00 a.m. and then up again at 9:00 to get the kids and get the house ready because we had guests over for supper.

Another Syttende Mai has come and gone; what fun we have when it's here!!

Syttende Mai

I can't believe it's that time of year again. We just love our Syttende Mai celebration!! Tonight (Thursday) Joe has ball practice at Steven's park so I think it's going to be hard for those kids to concentrate on ball when the carnival is right there.

Joe is in fifth grade and doing his first Fun Run Friday afternoon. He's very excited about that but not as excited as he will be once school gets out and he gets to hang out down there and be cool with a group of his friends. He has his first official "date" with his girlfriend Jordy who is in sixth grade after school. Friday Kelsie gets to dance with her dance class at the Syttende Mai Talent Show at 7:00 pm at Viking Middle School.

Saturday brings us to the wonderful parade Woodville has. Both Joe and Kelsie are in the parade this year. Joe with wrestling float of course and Kelsie will be in her little Norwegian outfit with the Kindergartners. Then she gets to come back and ride the wrestling float too.

Don't forget to buy a hamburger at the hamburger stand and support Harmony Hill 4-H club!!

Have fun and there's room at our house to stay if anybody gets to out of control and needs to stay in town and walk to our place!!!!! Take advantage because next year we won't be there to walk home.

Weather

Can you believe this wonderful weather we are having?!! I hope this weather continues until next week(end) for Syttende Mai. I'm very fortunate to have walking paths in the woods behind my employment. I went walking back there during my lunch hour and saw the most beautiful deer I have ever seen. Now I'm not a hunter so I don't see deer that close very often and if I do see them close they are dead by the hunters or road kill on the side of the road.

Joe was raising money for his Syttende Mai Fun Run this past week and he was able to raise $146.00 that will go towards the United Way Food Distribution, Millpond Park, Summer Rec programming and the renovation of the Baldwin swimming pool. He just wanted to raise $25.00 so he could get the morning off school that day. I told him if he wants the pool to open he best keep on raising money so he did.

Kelsie is getting excited for her dance recital. They get to perform one of her dances at the Syttende Mai Variety Show on Friday night. If you can't make it to her recital, that would be a great way to see her dance. Have a great rest of the week and weekend.

Schedule

As I was just starting to enjoy only having to be one place at night during the week that has all suddenly taken a turn. We received a call last night that Joe's baseball practice started; yep last night. May is now here and brings our family a hectic schedule; dance and Syttende Mai practice for Kelsie, play practice and baseball practice for Joe, t-ball and baseball games come June and July. It appears Friday and the weekend is our family time to focus on each other. I follow my brother's nurse Deb's blog; who recently lost her husband, and she said take time to have a face to face talk with your spouse; I could see this be very beneficial to have with your children as well. With all of the bad decisions our children could make we need to keep those lines of communication open. So I need to take time out of our schedule to shut that television off and talk to my spouse and those wonderful children of ours to keep those lines open and I hope all of you do as well. Have a great day and rest of the week. We are doing some more moving this weekend and clean up. Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the nice weather!!