Weekend Update

Sunday morning Ethan and I headed down to Lake Orion to watch the Junior Team compete Level 4 at the State Meet hosted by Gymnastics Training Center of Rochester Hills. What a marvelous facility the Lake Orion High School Field House is. It was a perfect set-up for the meet. This time we were not scheduled to work on the floor and mostly watched from the spectator area which was above the gym floor making it much easier to see all the events. We did sneak down during one practice round so Ethan could say hi to the team. As a fund raiser they were selling “Shout Outs” for $1 so we did a “Shout Out to the GTC Junior Team. Ethan Parton says Rock On and Coach Brandon is the best!” Loving it!
Weekly Walk #6: As we took a quickie walk on the property we went past Benjamin’s latest project, a putt-putt golf course. He started drawing out the idea Saturday night and then worked on it all Sunday morning. Needs to come up with a better hole; a frosting container was suggested. I also gazed adoringly at the huge pile of brush that was gathered during Saturday yard work. Rob got the boys started on picking up the debris and sticks while he filled up the tires on the lawn mower and moved it to the back part of the garage so I can get the recycling area organized. I actually ended up painting in Alex’s room (another project that has long gone by the wayside) instead of working outside with them. Then I took Ben up to the elementary for soccer practice. Alex somehow skated on the whole yard work deal. She went up to the school for the theatre workday and was supposed to work when she got back but things pretty much puttered out by then. Hmmm. Anyway, along our walk Rob wrestled with some old wire that had been in the back for a while but was finally freed and easy to see since everything was dead, so we pulled that out to an open spot to come back for later. Tried to take some more MySpace type pictures with Rob but just kept getting the back of his head and not me; got a few good smooches trying though. (wink) The lower section of the collage is Fox’s terrarium-aquarium project he worked on. I found a section of moss while we were walking that topped it off well, don’t you think?

Happy Monday!