HI!

Nothing much happened here either. Lexi and Maddie are waiting for the tricker or treaters to come so that they can scare them off. I don't know how many we will get.

Cleary wasn't at school today. She was not feeling well. What a wimp. HAd three different subs for her today and I was not one of them. I had to get ready for my swim meeting after school

Swimming:

Have 37 on my list already and will probably have at least 60 by Monday. All of the usual suspects were there. The club kids are coming on the first day. They want to be included (and they don't have practice that day). Everyone is so excited that it is catching. We are going to start out with alot more stroke drill at first.

Dinner:

Your dad and Kristin had hamberger helper and I broiled chicken. Right now, your dad is grazing on chedder Dorito's and red wine. I'm thinking of getting him out and getting a free Pumpkin latte at Dutch Bro's.

Tomorrow, Kristin has a golf lesson, then we have the concession stand and she has her awards night at 7pm.

Golf:

The girls golf team is meeting at the driving range Friday at 3pm to hit some balls and bond. I think it is a good idea. I have range balls left over from last season. Maybe this will get them excited for the spring and get them thinking about going to the driving range over the witner. It will be interesting to see how many actually go.

Nice job on coming back at practice today. when was the last time you had two birdies in a row. I guess it doesn't take you too long to figure it out.

Hope you stayed somewhat warm tonight. I bet you had some fun. Did some of the kids have good costumes?

Nanny:

Nanny is ready for us to come for Christmas. She was suppose to go home tonight. Your dad talked to her today and her spirits were really up.

Love you.

PS your dad is excited to have you come home. I made your train reservations tonight.

MOM

Not much happened today here either.

Your dad is on the phone with you right now.

Nanny is doing well and you know from your dad.

swim team meeting tomorow.

Weather is suppose nice the rest of the week.

Good luck tomorrow on your tests.

MOM

not much went on today.

Cleary is sick and got worse during the day.

Had a distirict swim meeting today with all of the coaches.

When I got home your dad was fixing potato soup. Ate and went back to school for my methods class. WE worked on lesson plans for 1 1/2 hours. Got home about 15 min ago and am waiting for two and a half men at 8:30.

Nanny had her surgery today and is doing ok. She will be in the hospital for a couple of days.

I'm eating popcorn and have four eyes looking at me.

As you can tell, not much is going on. Maybe tomorrow might be more eventful.

Oh yeah, Kristin might be playing indoor. They need a goalie and want her to play is id doesn't interfere with swimming. It might be good for her.

Love you. Less than a week and you will be hitting the ball straight in the sun.

MOM

Mimi and Poppi say hi!

We had a nice weekend. It was actually good weather in Sequim. WE played golf yesterday and I catually played better there than at McNary. By hole 15 I had shorts on. I wore shorter white socks so that I didn't look so bad. On17, I was 12 inches away from making a hole-in-one. Better than hitting a car.

WE watched the Ducks win against USC. Yeah!

Mimi fixed some new chili with corn in it in the crock pot. It was good. We had some nwe kind of ice cream too.

This morning, we went to The Mariner Cafe and had breakfast. That was good too. Had a nice ride home. It takes too long to get home.

We have gone to the store and are going to have ham sandwiches and bean with bacon soup tonight.

Hope you had a good weekend.

Love MOM

this is just a quickie. Just got done with conferences. did get to see your sister's last game against West. They lost 7-1 at least. I didn't watch the last few minutes. Kristin was not in goal, she played center mid. had some good kicks, but the socre wouldn't have been so bad if she would have been back there. It's pretty bad when parents are asking me why she wasn't playing goalie. I'm not the coach. Watching the game was like watching paint dry.

I'm going home now to have something to eat. have a good day in class tomorrow and have a nice weekend.

Love,

MOM

Thursday: according to Kristin, this is "Thursday" for school, since she doesn't have school Thursday or Friday. Lucky her. AT least I don't have school on Friday.

It's your dad's getting the bug. He was suppose to go to an orchestr concert so I fed him early. WHen he was done eating, he decided not to go. It is now 5:46 and he is asleep. After Kristin gets done with her team dinner, I will come home and take a warm bath.

Sorry to hear about Dylan and his bad day. Did he find his range finder?

Kristin just called and south was beating out boys 4-1. That's too bad. I bet the game was pretty dirty. Even the girls JV game was dirty yesterday. The varsity game was postponed until tomorrow. Did I tell you that South had a couple of varsity players on their JV yesterday? A couple of those girls looked pretty big.

Kristin will send you a picture of her new Soccer sweatshirt. It's pretty neat.

Hope everything is going ok.

Love, MOM

Tough Day

Tough day today. It started this morning when Kristin and I had to take back the chain saw and didn't get to school un 7:30 (thinks to a train). Once I'm behind, I can never get caught up.

It doesn't help that I have a cold.

5 girls didn't dress down in my weight training class today. MOst of them are either failing or are going down fast.

Nobody was sure where Kristin's game was today. I get a call from her that it was at CVC, then when she got there, I received another call saying they were at Gilmore field. I had to keep calling your dad to keep him updated. First the game was suppose to start at 4, then 3:30, then 4 again. When we got to the field, w3e found out that the game started at 4:30. At least your dad had bought us coffee and we had a chance to talk.

Kristin started at goalie and let two get by. They were good goals. SS pulled down a couple of varsity players and you could tell. In the second half your sister played some mid-field the last part of the game. She had a corner, the team passed it back out, she kicked it again the goalies just barely got her gloves on it, but kelsely Richmond was there and put it in. Your sister had an assist. Yea Kristin!!!!!

Hope you are having a nice evening. You are probably watching one of your favorite shows.

Have a nice evening.

LOVE YOU,

MOM

Freddie Krueger at his best.
The day after. We still have alot to get rid of.


DUCKS WON

McNary 32-North 12
West 24-McKay 0

West clinched the #1 seed and we need to win at least one more to get into the playoffs.

Not much happened today. At 8am we decided to play golf at our 9am tee time. When we got there, Fitz was there . We hadn't seen him in awhole. It was nice playing with him. Your Dad shot a 39 on the back. It took him awhole to get warmed up after working in the rain all day yesterday.

Cam home and started the ham.

Fed the puppies at 4:54 today. Held them off pretty good.

The Seahawks won today and we are going to switch back and forth between baseball and football tonight.

We are going to Sequim this weekend. Kristin and I don't have school on Friday, so as soon as your dad can get out school, we will leave. We are going to play golf on Saturday.


Good luck on your speech tomorrow.

Love,

MOM

A couple more pictures. Tomorrow, your dad is renting a chain saw and cutting the thing up. WE are going to give the neighbors the wood.

Another uneventful day, except we had some pretty good thunder stroms.

WE had a pep assembly today and the gym really looked good. So many people wore blue and white. WE play North tonight and WEst plays McKay. Both could be decent games.

It was raining so hard that Kristin practiced in the auditorium. There was no other spolt for them, the wimps.

Kristin is taking the PSAT tomorrow morning, your dad is cutting, and I'm doing laundry. At 4:30, the Ducks play Washingotn and it is on FSN. If it is noce (not raining) on Sunday, we are going to play golf and for dinner have ham from Gehley's hog. That hog is almost gone.

Hope you had a good workout this morning and you are having a nice evening.

LOVE YOU

MOM

I will have to send more tomorrow. I was having problems downloading tonight.

Boring today.

Wrote a referral because one of my gang bangers wouldn't keep his hood off. He thought I was picking on him. Tough S----.

Your sister's game was about as exciting as watching grass grow. They played McKay in the wind and won 7-0. At least your sister got to play in the field. The McNary goalie only touched the ball twice.

What's the deal? You too busy to drop a little blog our way?

Well, as you know, we lost a tree today. I came home and thought it looked aweful bare around the tree that we had problems with last summer. Then I walked into the back yard whre your dad was and guess what? WE lost a tree. What fun that was. We cut alot of it to get it off the rose bushes but we have alot of tree in the back yard. I think we are going to cut down the other one too. If that one falls, it will go the other way.

Good luck on your test tomorrow.

Love,

US

PS we love you.

Another day, another dollar. Same ol', same ol'. Not much happened today. Wed. is over, Thurs. is to come.

Classes were good. Started to work on swim team buses.

Your sister had practice at 2:45 in the pouring rain (on and off). They scrimmaged the JV boys and lost 4-2. At least the girls scored.

Varsity girls finally won their 2nd game against North 4-0. Lauren Brouse scored all four goals.

Your dad came home early. He was going to watch cross country, but the meet was over when he got there. They moved up the start time becuase of the weather.

Called Jim White and he said that he would still work with you.


Someone came into my office the other day, a kid and she said that someones girlfiredn from Oregon is at ISU and knows of you.

Pork Chops with mushrooms and noodles for dinner tonight. It's an easy one.

Hope you got your package.

Stay warm. If you run out of hand warmers, let us know.

LOVE you and get some sleep.

MOM

Getting ready for Phoenix and Palm Springs.


How did if feel to play in Oregon weather? WE are suppose to have rain until maybe Sunday. Next week should be nice. It is suppose to get really bad for the next few days. Snow at about 3500 feet tomorrow, I think. Big system on Thursday. Just in time for your sister's soccer game. Might have to watch in the car again. Gusts of wind up to 40mph. How fun is that?

Not much happened again today. WE had a homecoming assembly today.

7th period went well. Two of the "bad" boys skipped and the third didn't dress down. It was my lucky day.

I got my golf shoes today. They are a little big, but I don't think I could wear a half size smaller. I can always stuff my insoles in them.

Your sister is at practice, then has a team dinner and I'm waiting for your dad to get home. WE are having French Onion soup.

Sorry to hear that the boys didn't play well. Dylan will like his ice cream.

I think I will make some more cookies tonight.

Hope you had a good dinner.

The puppies were happy. They got to eat 10 min. early.

Talk to you tonight.


Love you.

Howdy


That is the excitement for the day. In other words, boring day today.

Stepped first period, 2nd period 20 min. conditioning (kicked one kid out for flipping the bird) and badminton. Same for 3rd.

Went to a soccer game at a new park. Kristin was goalie for the first half. It was so cold that your dad and I sat in the car for half time. Kristin didn't play at the beginning of the second half so we stayed in the car. She went in for center mid, we got out of the car long enough to walk back to the field, your dad turned around, moved the car so we could see the whole field, and we sat in there until the end of the game. WE are such great parents.

Had my methods class tonight. It was someones b-day, so wedidn't meet too long... Handed out lesson plan templates talked for awhile then left. WE will meet for a longer period of time the next session.

Watching football , doing this and eating. Two and a half men are on tonight. Hopefully, I can stay awake for the whole show. It is pretty funny.

HOpe practice went well, hoe the boys did well and, hope you have a good swim in the morning.


MOM

Today ended up being a nice day.

This morning, your dad and I played golf, just the two of us. It went ok. iI hit the ball better than last week but didn't score much better. Your dad had a good front side but not a great back side. At least it didn't rain and it wasn't WINDY.


Came home and looked at your lesson plan. It looked good. Remember, you don't have write in complete sentences but you need to be detailed. I'm going over that tomorrow night. I hope they do as well as you do. Your teacher must be impressed with you.


You have lost your old clubs. kristinwent to the driving range and hit your clubs. She is too tall for her old clubs and hit your clubs really well. She now has a new set. She also hit your dad's old Cobra's (the same ones you hit, i think) and hit those well. She hit better than when we went to Juniper.


I'm going to try mail service to your place again. I'm sending you a card. Let me know when (AND IF) you get it.

While I'm sitting here, your dad is doing homework and your sister is fixing dinner. We are having Bobli Bread and French Bread. She is upset because she has clean up duty also.

The dogs have eaten and we are getting ready to watch the Seahawks.


Kristin has a soccer game tomorrow against North. She will probably not play goalie. Then, I have class at 6pm. Tomorrow night's blog will be late.


I forgot to tell you that football lost to Sprague on thursday, but your did's team won.


I have a question for you. Would I be out of place if I sent the girls team going to CA. a little goodie bag? If you think I would be, I won't do it. Just let me know. I would probably put in some tees and maybe a couple of little gag gifts and candy. What do you think?


Have a nice evening and stay out of trouble.


Love,

MOM

YUM, YUM

This is what I left this morning to go work out. Do you think the three of them had any ideas about working out?
Can you tell what this is? Yes, that's right. WE had Salmon again. This time it was from Ray. I did it the way your dad does except it was in the oven.


Today was definately a fall, football day. I went and workout at a little after 10, went to the bank and the store after that. I was home the rest of the day except for a walk with the three ladies. I did read a little more Harry Potter and will probably do some more tonight.

Your dad was in class all day and got home about 4:30.


Right now, we are watching OSU trying to beat Cal. Cal just scored, the Beav's are still ahead by 3 with 2:30 to go.


Tomorrow, your dad and I are playing golf at 9am, then watching football. What else is there to do on a Sunday?

HOpe you had a good day today, and have some plans for tomorrow. I think your weather is supposed to be ok for the next couple of days.

Stay out of trouble.

(Now I have to fix ice cream and cookies. I just baked some more.)

Let me know how the guys do the next couple of days.


MOM

Not much happened today.

Had inservice today. It was good. Kristin had soccer practice and her coach hurt her leg when she tried to slide tackle.

WEnt to the store and got home at about 2:30. Did some laundry and read some of Harry Potter.

Fixed dinner and ate sauerkraut and brats.

Went to Costco at about 6:30 and bought food and things for a care package for someone. THat will be sent out UPS on Monday.


Now, dad and puppies are in bed. Dad is studying and puppies are sleeping. I am out here doing this and baking cookies. Have one more batch after the one in the oven.


Melissa and Ray had to put Pebbles to sleep today. Two weeks ago she went in to have a huge lump on her side removed and has not eaten since. She was just dring alot of water and throwing up. They may have a new puppy when you come home for Thanksgiving.


Well, do you think Emily will go to San Louis Obispo? I think she would have fun. I know that everyone else will have fun.

I'm sure there will be some gossip of some sort at your team dinner tonight. You will have to fill me in.

Your dad will be glad to know that alot of homework will get done this weekend. He gets a little worried that you are having toooooooooooo much fun.


Take care and stay warm tomorrow.

Love you,

the whole family

The Day After

Maddie wanted first dibs on the bed. She got it.
Lexi is showing you her clean teeth.

No school today. Grading day. The first half of the day was spent on teaching kids how to write. I actually got something out of it. I should be able to help Kristin on her papers a little more. Grades are done.

Kristin had practice at Whitaker and had to walk there from school this morning at 9am.

She got back at 11 and I took her home, got lunch and went back to school. Your dad was there for a couple of hours talking about the math curriculum. He came and saw me twice.


Came home and watched Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Maddie started barking at 4 for dinner and I held off until 4:30 when I couldn't stand it any more.

At 5pm, I started dinner. Kristin and I are having sauteed chicken and mushrooms. Then, I'm going to watch football and probably read the last Harry Potter.

WEst Salem has a big football game against Redmond tonight. It could determine the league champ. We play Sprague. I will let you know the scores tomorrow.

HOpe you had a decent day. I hope you saw more sun then we did. It gets depressing. At least we are going to sun places for Christmas and Spring Break.

Love you.

MOM

Dutch Rules

Your dad finally got a sticker and put it on his car. Now he is part of the family.

Nice to see your face on the athletic web page. I do like that picture. I cannot even imagine 50 mph winds. No wonder your 5 iron didn't go 130 yds. Sounds like Desert Dunes in Palm Springs.


Last day of school this week. Grades are almost done, but I needed to leave some of them until tomorrow so I would have something to do. After school, I had three girls come in and do lst minute make-up.

Puppies had their teeth cleaned today. Poor Lexi had to have one pulled. The vet said it was like a human wisdom tooth. They are now both in bed with your dad.

As you know, your dad helped in the concession stand tonight. WE were really busy. Tonight, the little girls cheerleaders (from thier camp) performed at half time. Therefore, we were rather busy selling food. I'm really glad that your dad helped. He had on his WEst Salem sweatshirt though. I guess beggers can't be chooosers.

Sorry you had a normal day.

Did you get the CD yet?

This is late for me. It is time for bed. Good night.

MOM

What a two days.

Right now, Maddie is barking because who knows why? She is in the kitchen.

Kristin played a great game yesterday. She was twice as muddy as the picture on the last blog.

We had a SAY Golf meeting last night at 7pm. It lasted about 45 min.

Came home and watched Chuck and Two and A Half Men. Fell asleep after that. I stayed up a 1/2 hour later than usual. It must have been teh coffee that I had at the meeting.

This morning, I had a Step Off 1st period, and gave a test and did weight 2nd and 3rd. Those freshmen realy like the weight room.

Kristn has practice at 4:45 at Whitaeker. I'm going to drop her off then go look for Goalie Gloves. At the Indoor Center they had some for $110. I think that is a little high.

Tomorrow, they are having a special goalie training and Kristin might go so I need to get those gloves.

I'm on my own tonight. Kristin has a team dinner and your dad has some things to do.

Tomorrow night is Concession stand night and your dad is going to work with me. He will probably go out and watdh some football when it's not too busy. That might not be much because it si Sprague and there might be a good crowd.

Can you believe that the first six weeks is over? Tomorrow is the lst day of school for students because of grading on Thursday and State wide Inservice on Friday. I'm already ready for the weekend.

Hope your pizza was good and get some sleep. Where is qualifying thursday and Friday?

Take care of yourself.

MOM

THE GOALIE

She even got her knees dirty. They lost 2-1 but your sister did a great job. Kelsey Richmond scored an own goal so it could have been 1-1. If she wouldn't have touched the ball, your sister would have gotten it. Kristin came out and saved quite a few and the other goal score hit off the side post and went in. The whole team played really well. Mr. Casquereo asked if Kristin ahd played much at the position. He was really impressed.

Ate breakfast at home, went to the game, dropped Kristin off, Dutch Bro run, a new sticker and back to watch the game. Right now, Kristin is mowing the lawn, your dad is working in the yard and I'm doing this.

Later, we are going to Best Buy, Target, Boarders and Rice Time. I am doing laundry today.

Tomorrow morning we are going to play golf with the Cross' weather permitting, then I'm going to Alan McCloud's shipping off party at 3pm. I have never been to one of those before.

No Duck game today. Tonight, we will either watch a movie or football on TV.


Hope you had a nice day. Have a good trip tomorrow. I'm looking forward to hearing about the golf course you are going to play. I think you will get to work on your tan Monday and Tuesday becuase it's suppose to be in the 70's.


MOM

It's finally the weekend.

I'm here writing, eating you know what (three guesses and the first two don't count), listening to the weather and having the puppies look at me. Yes, they have already eaten.

I think our weather was nicer then yours today. It is 59 right now and golfing weather.

Nothing really happened today.


Two down, two to go. Subbing classes, that is.

Right now, Kristin is walking Sadie. She is puppy sitting until Sunday night.


Kristin's game tomorrow is at 11:30 at Whitaeker. We will drop her off at 10:30 then go to dutch Bro's for a little coffee.

Only three days of school next week. On thursday, we have grading and Friday is the state wid inservice.

Glad Dylan likes his schoes, the hand warmers are for you, and I hope you get your CD soon.

Stay warm and dry.

MOM

Where do I begin.

Your dad was not in a bad mood yesterday. It was a silly mood.

School was as usual, again. Sat out the three boys again and had a nice CHAT with them.

After school had a make-up mile then took a group of soccer players to Corban to watch soccer. I sat in the car. It hailed. I was glad that I was in the car.

Kristin and I went to McDonalds. I wanted to go to Burger King, but it was out of the way and the puppies were starving.


Got a nice note from Dave. It was almost a whole page thanking us for the hats. He said that the boys wore them all of the time. Do they wear them alot?

I see that Nick gets to go to the next tournament. Is he excited? Do you still talk to him quite a bit?

Your dad is getting excited about going to Phoenix for Christmas. The other night he was trying to figure out where we would eat In and Out. The first place will be at Redding, then probably some place for dinner too. I think I could handle that. How about you? He thought we could hit Cabazon before we got to Phoenix since we have to go that way. Can you believe that he is thinking about shopping? I'm surprised he hasn't thought about stopping in Palm Springs to play golf. He adually figures we could hit your grandparents by 4pm that Sunday afternoon (with stoppage at the outlet mall).

Going to have Duck Tracks ice cream for dessert.

I looked at your hotel that you are staying at in Boise. It is a nice hotel.

(this is taking awhole to write because my fingers are cold and I keep making mistakes). I have the heat and fire on tonight.

Your dad is at school. He is doing chains for the second half of the Freshman game and all of the JV game. South's field is in such bad shape that they moved both games over to West.

There is snow over the passes. I saw pictures this morning. They are expecting 6-8 inches by tomorrow morning. It is suppose to be dry here now until Sunday evening.


That's all I can think of. About time for ice cream.

Love you and have a good day tomorrow. Let me know when Dylan gets the shoes and you get the CD.

MOM

Hold the Presses

Are you ready for this? The coach asked your sister to play goalie on Saturday. The other girl was not cutting it. The last time they played Redmond it ws like 7-0. NOw, your sister is nervous.

Swim practice time: we scored. I got the second time, 3:55-5:05. Perfect time for every one.

Your dad and Kristin are yelling at each other. It is pretty loud.

Again, this morning we had to be at school at 6:45 for Kristin.

Took the freshmen to the weight room for the first time and they really did well. Didn't have to sit anyone down. Tomorrow will probably be a different story.

Your did is on a real toot today. He is driving me up the wall.


Maybe some day your mother will get out of your life and quit calling you. Sorry about that.

Your father has no comments.

Have a good swim in the morning and please let me know when you get the CD and Dylan gets his shooes.

MOM

Not much happening today.

Got up and went to school. Did all of the usual things that I do in the morning: Check my mail, write detentions for unexcused absences, check college golf scores. All of my classes went well, only sat out 3 boys in 7th period. (the same ones as usual)


After school, I had two people come in and do make up. Kristin and I left at about 3pm and i picked up my medicine from Walgreens. From there, Kristin drove home. She is getting better.


Right now I am writing this, Lexi is chewing her feet off, Maddie is barking because she is hungry and Kristin is doing homework.


At 4:15, I'm taking Kristin to soccer practice for 4:45, then I'm coming home to an empty house, except for the dogs, and I'm going to have a chicken salad for dinnr. Your dad has 9th grade parent nigh so he is going to watch some soccer at school first. I will be a woman of leisure. I hope I can stay up longer than 8pm.


I'm trying to think of any gossip. Marlo's boat caught a 36 lb. Salmon this weekend. I have never seen such a big fish of that type.


Dylan's shoes should be delivered today. I looked at the tracking and they were in Salem early this morning. We usually don't get delivery until around 5pm.


Hope your teaching went well today. Let me know which way they liked to play the tag game better.

Take care and smile pretty for your team picture tomorrow.

MOM

Things:

The fish got a newair pump. It is getting air again.

Kristin's team lost 4-0. Should have been 2-0 at the worst.

Had a good assembly about a girl that was killed at Colimbine HS in 1999. I have never seen 2000 students so quiet.

Had a Methods class today. WE talked about the state standards and the National Standards. WE also talked about safety issues in the gym.

Talked to you a couple of times today. Heard from your dad that you din't have any homework tonight. Why are we paying big bucks for you to go to school there?

Dylan's shoes are in the mail. I will let you know when I send them UPS. Don't forget to give me his address.

YOur Rascal Flats CD is in the mail.

Madie took a dump today. WE were getting a little worried. Everything is good.

I heard your dad donated $50 but gave it to Hannah.

Talk to you later. Have a good swim in the morning.

MOM