Happy Birthday Grandma!
The "prince" is teaching a lesson in his geometry class tomorrow. The teacher has been having each of them take what they have learned and use it in a career-related form, so he is using engineering feats & defeats related to bridges. Has been working diligently on it, has a short movie, a "lecture", a group activity and candy! His teacher is wonderful, I told him how lucky he is to have had her for 3 years - algebra and geometry, she is amazing. She comes in early/stays late and they know her door is open whenever they have questions.
His class has some amazing athletes too. They won their conference track meet 2 weeks ago and B has really enjoyed it this year. Basketball is still his favorite, but he had a good time running with his friends, esp as they won all but 1 meet this season!
Punky Sue/Princess has started tee ball. She loves it. Wants to play sports all of the time! She wants to take gymnastics, so I am going to look into it, to see class times & costs. Might as well learn how to do the flips and things the proper way! She was doing cartwheels in the outfield the other night, causing lots of grins on parents...
My grandma celebrated her 89th birthday last week. Impressive, she is in great health, still drives, cleans & cooks/bakes like a dream! I hope I take after her - health-wise at the least!
She can sew & is amazing in the kitchen, some of the granddaughters luckily have inherited parts of this! It was so much fun going to their (our grandparents) house as a child each summer and spending several days - a week there. We got to help in the huge garden, visit family and at night she & Grandpa would watch Johnny Carson (unless it was the night where there was all-star wrestling on tv!) and we would all get to eat popcorn and us kids got to stay up a little later than our usual bedtime. We looked forward to it so much. Then we would take turns staying at different aunts houses for a day or two. It was so great, since we grew up a couple of hours away, we didn't get to spend a lot of time otherwise together. I try to do the same thing with our nieces and nephews, to give them these same fun memories.
Jenni had a great graduation party and loved her scrapbook, it turned out so neat. She had taken dance classes for many years, so they decorated the walls with her costumes, was cute to see them!
Our road has been even more busy than usual, with large trucks and semis on it. Last week a semi came flying very fast around the curve just before our house - the gravel dust flying. I thought he was going to lose it as he seemed to be sliding (we have new, loose gravel now) so we stopped and pulled off to the very edge of the road when we saw him and just hoped he stayed over...we were a pretty nervous family for a couple of moments! This road used to be blacktopped when my husband was small & growing up out here, then the county went to chip-coat and then to gravel about 15 years ago. I wish they would go back to chip-coat at least on it.
They have been doing a traffic count off and on, I hope they are noting how many are big vehicles especially.
His class has some amazing athletes too. They won their conference track meet 2 weeks ago and B has really enjoyed it this year. Basketball is still his favorite, but he had a good time running with his friends, esp as they won all but 1 meet this season!
Punky Sue/Princess has started tee ball. She loves it. Wants to play sports all of the time! She wants to take gymnastics, so I am going to look into it, to see class times & costs. Might as well learn how to do the flips and things the proper way! She was doing cartwheels in the outfield the other night, causing lots of grins on parents...
My grandma celebrated her 89th birthday last week. Impressive, she is in great health, still drives, cleans & cooks/bakes like a dream! I hope I take after her - health-wise at the least!
She can sew & is amazing in the kitchen, some of the granddaughters luckily have inherited parts of this! It was so much fun going to their (our grandparents) house as a child each summer and spending several days - a week there. We got to help in the huge garden, visit family and at night she & Grandpa would watch Johnny Carson (unless it was the night where there was all-star wrestling on tv!) and we would all get to eat popcorn and us kids got to stay up a little later than our usual bedtime. We looked forward to it so much. Then we would take turns staying at different aunts houses for a day or two. It was so great, since we grew up a couple of hours away, we didn't get to spend a lot of time otherwise together. I try to do the same thing with our nieces and nephews, to give them these same fun memories.
Jenni had a great graduation party and loved her scrapbook, it turned out so neat. She had taken dance classes for many years, so they decorated the walls with her costumes, was cute to see them!
Our road has been even more busy than usual, with large trucks and semis on it. Last week a semi came flying very fast around the curve just before our house - the gravel dust flying. I thought he was going to lose it as he seemed to be sliding (we have new, loose gravel now) so we stopped and pulled off to the very edge of the road when we saw him and just hoped he stayed over...we were a pretty nervous family for a couple of moments! This road used to be blacktopped when my husband was small & growing up out here, then the county went to chip-coat and then to gravel about 15 years ago. I wish they would go back to chip-coat at least on it.
They have been doing a traffic count off and on, I hope they are noting how many are big vehicles especially.
posted by Missy | 7:34 PM
1 Comments:
This is one of my favorite postings! Staying out at Grandma and Grandpa's in Lone Tree was one of my favorite things, too. It's great you're working to create memories like those for kids.
Tyler
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