Honor Roll

Jeremy and Courtney were both inducted to the National Honor Roll. Only 18 students from their school were selected and they were 2 of the 18....YEAH! This year, 547 South Dakota students were inducted. To see a complete list of SD students that were inducted, you can visit the site at http://johnson.senate.gov/.

Robin Hood

Jeremy shot a Robin Hood at Shooting Sports on Sunday....yeah Jeremy (and Courtney happened to have her camera with her...yeah Courtney). A robin hood is when you shoot a tight group and one arrow "shoots" into another arrow. It ends up looking like one LONG arrow.
He ended up shooting a perfect round on that group of arrows....25 out of 25. His total was 141 out of 150. He was pretty excited (and so was mom).!

Basketball Season Ends

Our boys were defeated last night in the first round of Districts so they are now done with their season too. Jeremy is done with his basketball career.....*sniff, sniff*....can you feel my pain and sadness??!! I did shed quite a few tears last night and Jeremy shed a few of his own....not like him at all. He has played with this group of wonderful boys for many years and they all get along so well. I am going to miss watching him and the rest of the seniors play.

A Week of Birthdays

This is the week of Birthdays!

Yesterday my awesome niece Kennedy celebrated her 11th birthday! We were honored to get to spend Saturday evening out for supper with her to celebrate.

Tomorrow both my Grandma and my brother will celebrating birthdays! My "baby" brother will be the big 3-0 and grandma is 80 something and still going strong! She helps milk cows and does calf chores daily, plus takes care of grandchildren all the time and makes the meals for the "boys" on the farm. She is one busy woman!

Happy Birthday to all of you....I love you!

Bitter Cold!

What does a farm wife do on a bitter cold day?? Load pigs.....grrrrr!

It was -24 yesterday morning and all I wanted to do was snuggle up in a warm bed......but duty called and we had 4 loads of pigs to send out starting at 7 am. They didn't want to go out any more than I did so it was a very difficult day of loading to put it mildly!

We were going to work at the hog site all day and get some repairs and maintenance done but since it was so cold, when we finished with the stuff that we had to get done (about 1:00), we called it a day (outside anyway). It took me until about 4:00 to warm up!

All I have to say is Thank God that the wind was not blowing and can spring please come soon??!!

Another Night of Lasts

Courtney's basketball team lost first round of Districts, so they are finished for the year. We had some very sad girls last night and watching them cry did make me shed a few tears of my own. They are a really close group of girls....only one senior, no juniors, 6 sophomores and 4 freshmen.

Courtney was so upset that they didn't have practice anymore either....I remember that being the most relief after finishing the season. Maybe that's why these girls get along as well as they do, played as well as the did all year and ended up with a very good record.

Senior Night

Last night was senior night for the boys basketball team. My precious son was one of the seniors being recognized. I thought it would be a night of many tears for me. It was a night of many LASTS! It was Jeremy's last home basketball game...ever. It was the last time this group of boys will warm up together before a game on the home floor. It was the last time he would be announced as the starting center on our home floor. It was his last regular season game (districts start next week..away). It was the last time I will sit in those stands cheering my son on.

I am proud to say that I did NOT shed a tear! That doesn't mean that I am not sad, I just know that he is ready to be moving on and he has had a great time in high school and has made the most of it. Now, when he does play his VERY LAST game, I am sure there will be a few tears....and that last came could be any one of them now as we are into tournament play.