Update

Having fun on our vacation, although it has been extremely busy.

Jeremy's team placed 3rd in slow fire and 5th in rapid fire so far this week... silhouettes tomorrow.

Final awards TBA tomorrow night!!

Sure am missing all of you! I can't wait to catch up next week!

Nationals

NATIONALS HERE WE COME!

GO SOUTH DAKOTA! GO JEREMY!

I will post pictures when we return home.

Nieces

We have 3 of the greatest nieces and I just wanted to share 2 of them with you. I will share the other one when I get a picture of her.

Kennedy....she is such a spunky, fun, tell-it-like-it-is girl.
Kassidy....she is a quiet, giggly, kind-hearted sweetheart.

Here they are posing with Courtney at one of the latest family gatherings.

We are so lucky to have them in our lives....they are a joy to be around.

Vacation

Nothing interesting going on around here. We are busy trying to get odds and ends caught up so we can head out on VACATION! We don't get away very often so I am really excited.

Jeremy qualified for the National 4-H Shooting Sports Match (in .22 pistol) in the Black Hills, which just happens to be where my mom lives. We are going out to watch Jeremy, see my mom and make a VACATION out of it.

The 4-H shoot is really interesting, they have kids from all over the US come and shoot archery (compound and recurve), pistol (air and .22), shotgun, rifle (.22 and air), muzzleloader and hunting (consist of several different disciplines). Texas, Missouri and Colorado are usually some of the best teams. Jeremy went last year and shot recurve archery and his team did very well.

Softball

Courtney had another softball game last night and I remembered to bring the camera...the new one! Don't you just love the uniforms!! Jeremy chose not to play baseball this year so I only have one team to follow this summer.

Courtney and one of her best friends...Tasha. This pose is one of those goofy things they do.
Courtney pitches and Tasha plays short stop....Tasha is an excellent player.
Courtney batting.
Pitching.
She's getting better....has had her struggles this year with pitching.
They WON!
Team meeting afterwards....notice Amy from Life in the Country to the left in the orange shirt....she is one of the coaches.

Amy and her niece...Lexy. Tasha (from the goofy picture) is also her niece.
Summers and softball/baseball....it doesn't get any better than that!

GO ZIMMERS!

Spandex

Courtney has been at a volleyball camp for the last few days and has been wearing her Spandex volleyball shorts. She looks great in them but I still think they are dumb (maybe part of that is the thought of what I a might look like in them). Why do volleyball players wear Spandex? How do you feel about Spandex?

Blessings!

I had such a good weekend and am so blessed to have such wonderful people in my life.

I went to Mass and then spent all day yesterday with my wonderful hubby Chad and my kids, working on our new deck. I will post pictures of the deck when we get it finished. (It may be awhile, we have been slowly working on it since last July)

I hosted a Father's Day supper for Chad's family. We were lucky to have his Dad and Mom, his brother Bryon and his family and brother Brad and his family come. What a wonderful way to celebrate 4 dads!

Another blessing was that even though my dad died almost 22 years ago, I still felt his presence with me yesterday on Father's day (as I do many other days too). It was a good chance for me to reflect on the wonderful memories I have of him and what a great influence he was in my life, even for the short amount of time he was here on this earth.

I am so blessed!