Last Day of School!

Tyler and Jackson's last day of school was June 3rd. Tyler is moving on to 6th grade this fall at Orange Middle School. Jackson will be in third grade this year. They loved their teachers and classmates.

Tyler in her locker.

Tyler and her teachers.

Tyler's class.

Jackson and Mrs. Lilley.

Jackson's class playing a game - blind fold yourself and find your shoes in the pile of all the kid's shoes.

They also have a fantastic bus driver - "Mr. D." He is a gentle giant and really loves the kids.

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

Jackson is playing ball this year for the "Texas Rangers." It has been kind of a downer season...only winning one game this year. Yeah, that kind of stinks, but sometimes it is good to feel the aganoy of defeat on occasion in order to appreciate what it is like to play on a winning team.

Jackson playing catcher.

Jackson preparing to bat.

Paris trying to flirt with Merek...doing her best to keep his attention.

Memorial Day Weekend Car Show

This past weekend, we found a small car show that was being held locally. The kids seemed to have fun...I was in hog heaven! Paris won the heart of an older woman who owned a cherry red 57 T-Bird Coupe which she let her sit in.

Paris and her 57' T-Bird.

My ultimate dream car. 67 Shelby Cobra.

Tyler, Jackson and Paris in front of a T-Bird.

Cobra Mania...doing the "gansta" hands.

Tyler's personal favorite. I think it was the orange color that won her over.

Jackson's Passion - Football

Thought I would post up a few pictures for you from a recent flag football game with Jackson. He has been in "Hog Heaven" the past few weeks since being able to sign up and play on an organized football team. Here in this part of Ohio, it has been impossible to find a football league that doesn't play on Sunday here. It appears Ohio State football is more important than religion...so instead of missing a Saturday game of Buckeye football, we just play organized sports on Sundays around here!

Here are a series of pictures. Hope you enjoy!

Jackson's Team - The Bobcats

The Set.

Looking....

Seeing the Play Developing and Looking for the Open Receiver...

The Rush and the Scramble...

Quick Feet, Stepping Up to Miss the Rush, Locking in to Throw...

The Touchdown Run!

2-pt Conversion Attempt...

Rolling Left with His Receiver...

Plant...Throw...Over the Rusher...

The Conversion and Victory Run!

2008 Ride for Research and Boston Weekend

Tyler and I spent a long weekend last week in Boston for the annual Brain Tumor Society's Ride for Research. As most of you know, we lost Robes (our brother-in-law and uncle) to a brain tumor nearly 10 years ago. For the past three years, Tyler and I have been traveling to Boston (by the way - Tyler saves her money each year for her plane ticket there) to participate in memory of Robes and to also ride for those who are fighting this terrible disease.

Part of the weekend's events is the opportunity to catch some of the sites and spend lots of time with cousins and extended family members. As you will see in MANY of the pictures, Tyler, her cousin Adrie, and Adrie's cousin Emma are all dressed in pioneer outfits. This has become a tradition as well. We have some great blackmail pictures for all those dates to come when they get older! I can hardly wait to see what happens when they are 21 and if they are still willing to dress in bonnets and walk down the streets dressed as pioneers!

We had Rick Church with us this year riding as well as Chuck and Emma again (Robes' brother). Jamel was there for his 8th year, Ellen Patton (Robes' sister and mastermind behind "Patton's Army), Tad (with his daughter Zoe) and Brian, the workhorses of the crowd (and by the way, this was Brian's 11th year riding) all joined in as well.

This is really a big event with hundred's of riders each year. This year we rode 25 miles again. The girls did a fantastic job! (When's the last time you sat on a bike for 25 miles...up and down hills?)

The girls's day out in Lexington, MA....visiting the historical sites...getting looks from drivers passing by and being asked for group photographs!

Minute Men Memorial

John Hancock House - Samuel Adams and John Hancock were here the night Paul Revere rode through on April 19, 1775, warning them about the approaching British soldiers.

Gathering place of the Minute Men - night of April 19, 1775.

National Historical Museum - Girls with George Washington.

Miscellaneous Stuff!

Streets of Lexington, MA.

Fenway at night.

Girls at the Robert Frost Farm.

...and more Robert Frost Farm.

Famous rock fence Robert Frost wrote about in one of his poems.