.....Time's up!

As much as I hate to type this....tick tock...time's up...back to work tomorrow
:( Booooooo! Hisssssss!

It seemed like a pretty fast summer. I guess getting out June 8th instead of May 16th has something to do with it. I never got to that place where I was bored and needing my routine back! Anyhoo, it's here and I will do what I have to do.

Sorry for the lack of pictures, Bay doesn't know where she put the camera....but here's what's been happenin'...


First, and always on our minds - Landon - we got good news about his number of weeks of chemo. Thank you God! for 19 weeks of chemo and not 25! I (and the fam) really appreciate all the prayers from the Carbondale folks!!!




Got word on Monday that Miss Baleigh will be

needing braces sometime within the next year!





On Tuesday, we found out that Baleigh made the Southern Express traveling softball team! This is quite a feat actually and I am very proud of her. I think I was as nervous as she was at the tryout. All of the parents of the 14 girls who tried out stayed to watch. I guess the coaches had been recruiting players all summer - who knew? - but Bay was the only girl to make it to the team from that tryout of 14 girls! She really stepped up and played her best.


I am helping coach the Giant City girls softball team which began 3 weeks ago. Our first game is tomorrow already! Baleigh, unfortunately as a 5th grader, is able to practice, but not play in games. She has been at every practice and has become a much better pitcher in the past 3 weeks. The Giant City coach, Kim Wheeler, is also the high school head coach (who I coached with in the spring) and she told me that Bay really has what it takes to be a pitcher. It was good to hear, but I know how much hard work and dedication that takes :) I hope Bay is up for it! So far, she has been enthusiastic and VOLUNTARILY wanting to pitch in the back yard.



Yesterday, we rented canoes at Little Grassy Lake! The macho men (Dan and Kaid) took one canoe and Bay and I took another canoe. Paddle, paddle, paddle....middle of the lake....oopsies! Dan and Kaid turned over their canoe! Well of course Baleigh and I were cracking up, but then we realized that these guys had a looooonnnnngggg way to swim to get to the shore and get back into their canoe....plus our stuff was floating away! Bay and I had to rescue our cooler of water and food, shoes, shirts, paddles, life jackets, and of course our family members and their canoe. It was quite a fiasco...but very funny to Bay and me :) After that though, we had a great time canoeing all over the lake, stopping at various beaches and playing around.






Our sympathy goes out to the Robert Harvey Pillers family (my sister's father in-law). He was a good man and we and his entire family will miss him.