Long Weekend!

Wow, where do I begin??!! It was a long but fun weekend. We were in Pierre for the State Shooting Sports Match.

Getting to Pierre....it's normally about a 3 hour drive but took us about 4 hours to get there. I drove through some pretty nasty stuff. It was snowing so hard at times and the wind was blowing so we had poor visibility for the first hour and a half of our drive. We also had to keep stopping to clean off the windshield wipers...they kept accumulating ice and would not keep the windshield clear.

The kids shot pretty good....even above their average on their air pistols. Their .22 pistol shooting was not the greatest as they shot right after we got to Pierre and it was cold and the wind was blowing pretty bad. Oh well, that's the chance you take when you shoot outdoors. They both did pretty good on their archery shooting. Jeremy was pretty tired after his last archery as he shot 310 arrows over the weekend with his 8 archery events.

We finished the weekend by taking the kids out to a 3-D archery shoot. Neither my sister or I had ever watching a 3-D shoot.....we had a blast watching the kids! It amazed us how they could shoot the animal targets so well. They did soooo good and had a lot of fun! We a great weekend.

State Match

We are heading off to the South Dakota State Shooting Sports Match!

We have 31 kids from our county going. They will be shooting air pistols, CMP, bb guns, .22 pistols, .22 rifles and 8 categories of archery.

My sister and I are heading out together and are both instructors so besides taking care of our own kids, we have several other kids to "help". It is going to be a crazy busy weekend!!! And to top it all off....it is sleeting right now and the roads are terribly icy. 3 of the disciplines are shot outdoors so it could be miserable doing those.

The kids always have a great time as this is the highlight of several months of hard work and practice! Plus, Courtney says there are lots of "hot" guys there. Lord help me!

Banana Relay Pictures

Here are a few pictures from the Banana Relay.Jeremy eating the banana. Our good friend Jackie (in the black sweatshirt) just happened to be his "watcher". Each athlete in this race had one. She had to make sure he ate the whole banana before he could run to the finish line.
Almost done!

The ended up with 2nd place in the banana relay.

Banana Relays

Today is the Banana Relay track meet here at Hamlin. They have been doing this track meet for as long as I can remember. They call it the Banana Relay because our throwers (shot put and discus) do not get to run many (if any) relays so they have the throwers run the relay. At the end of the relay, the last runner on the relay team has to eat a banana so the winning relay team is determined by the first one to cross the line AND finish the banana. Each team usually consists of 2 boys and 2 girls. This year both of my kids will be in it.....Courtney will hand the banana off to Jeremy, who is the last runner and gets to eat the banana! I am excited and am hoping to get a few pictures of it! I'm just hoping that he does NOT choke....literally!

Shooting Sports Practice

We had our last "official" practice for Shooting Sports yesterday (we will practice 3 evenings this week yet). The State Meet is this coming weekend. The kids have worked really hard....every Sunday afternoon for the last 4 months. Almost all the kids involved have qualified in at least one discipline. Jeremy is shooting 10 disciplines and Courtney is shooting 5 and they both will shoot an archery 3-D this weekend too.

Jeremy and Courtney did very well at the Watoma Relay Track Meet last Friday. Courtney placed 1st in shot put and 2nd with one of her relay teams. Jeremy placed 3rd in discus and 4th in shot put. It was a fun meet....lots of records broken. They have another track meet tomorrow and one on Saturday that they will both miss to shoot at the State Shooting Sports Match.

I am trying to get ready for Jeremy's graduation on May 10. If any of you have any awesome ideas or tips to make it more enjoyable or fun (or easier on Mom), please feel free to leave me your ideas! I have the buns ordered...pork loins ordered....mints ordered....cake ordered....beans bought....chips bought....bbq sauce bought....pickles bought....and my mother in law is making the potato salad. Still need to get the beverages bought. I am trying to make this as simple as possible so I can enjoy the day.

Calf Pulling

We had to pull a calf yesterday. The momma was in labor for hours and not progressing so Chad and I came to the rescue! Putting the chains on the feet of the calf.
The head is out.
Just a little more.
It's out!
Waiting for the momma to come clean him off.

I have to tell you that Chad was not impressed at all that I was taking pictures of this whole process and not doing my usual "helping". But hey, I wanted you all to get a view of this......I think that birth is just a total miracle!

Track

The kids had their first track meet last Tuesday. I didn't get any pictures from that one and it was a very small meet, only 3 teams. I did remember to bring my camera yesterday for their 2nd meet so I took a few pictures. This was quite a large meet.....13 teams! Jeremy throwing shot put....he placed 4th.
Courtney throwing shot put....she placed 2nd.
Courtney again...shot put.
Jeremy throwing discus...he placed 6th. Courtney also placed 6th in discus but I forgot to take a picture of her throwing.
Courtney getting ready to run the Medley relay. She usually runs the 2nd leg of this relay but for some reason she started it yesterday. They placed 2nd in this relay. Courtney was also in the 400 relay and they did not place.

It was a really nice day for a track meet....a little windy but it was actually warm. A little different than not quite a week ago. Notice most of the snow is gone already!