TaYLoR....

Taylor's last day of highschool is today!!!! They will have a cookout at school to celebrate.

WOW...I can not believe she is a senior and will graduate this Sunday, and before we know it August will be here and we will be sending her off to college.

Congrats to the class of 2010!!!!!!

Just want to share a FEW pictures of what has gone on this past year....

ICCC...

Big day today!!! We went with Taylor to Iowa Central Community College to sign her letter of intent to run cross country and track for them!!! Wow.....what a ton of emotions I am having right now!!!! We are so excited for her, but are NOT ready for her to leave, I think graduation reality is sneaking up on us!!!!! We loved the college and the people there, and her coach is wonderful!!!!! What a great guy and a perfect fit for Taylor!!! We have visited other places and when she says she felt a little weird around the coach.....then that is not the place for her because we want her to feel at home and be able to talk to the coach about anything....and I think this is the guy!!!!!! The hard part about her running at college for us is going to be the fact that we will not get to watch her run very much!!!!! We have not missed very many of our kids' activities, so this is going to be an adjustment for us and her too I think, so we will have to try to get to as many as we can.

sEniOr NiTe.....

Seniors..Taylor,Ally,Jo,Katie,Dani

Tuesday nite(Feb.2nd I'm a little slow) was senior nite for our last home game. Taylor has played basketball or any sport with this group of girls from the time they started school. They are a great group of girls!!!!!!

And I have to say......Taylor had and AWESOME nite!!!!! She scored 24 points!!!!! wOoOhOoO!!

And 3 of those 24 points came with 1 second left on the clock at the end of the quarter and she gave it a toss from way behind the half court line.......and it went in!!!!! It was amazing!!!!! This was her career high!! Great job Taylor!! And I have to say as a team it was a fun game to watch, everybody had a really good nite!!! You can go here to read a story about the game.

tHiS&tHaT.....

Just letting you know we have been doing ALOT of [this]

and ALOT of [that] the last few months....and loving every minute of it!!!!!!

The girls start regional play in a few weeks and have a really[did i say really...that is an understatement]tough bracket this year. I will let you know how the season is going later!!!!

Kale has had a really good season so far...not sure when his districts start. Once again...later on that too!!!

Good luck to them all and we are very proud!!!!!

sHe'S nOt a LitTLe GiRL aNyMoRe.......

Taylor has said all along that when she turns 18 she wants to get a tattoo.....

So her and her dad were going to go together and get one. But I think she got tired of waiting on him, his work has kepy him very busy and all of Christmas vacation he has been sick....so she decided to do it alone!!!!! WOW was she ever a trooper!!!!!! OUCH is all I can say!!!

But I think it looks very nice. She got it on her side so it is not going to show very often. And that made us happy that she really was getting it for herself.....

HapPy tHaNksGiVinG......

HaPpY ThAnKsGiViNg...fRoM oUr FaMiLy tO yOuRs!!!!!!!

cRoSs cOuNtRy 2009......

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{{LaNeY}}

It is looking like fall is over and winter is on it's way!!!!!!

The girls had their 1st basketball scrimmage today.

Our schools football and volleyball seasons are over.

Halloween and trick~or~treating is in the past.

And as of Saturday the Cross Country season for 2009 is OVER.

I have not done a good job of keeping up with what the kids had going on lately so I will cram alot into this post......sorry!!!!!

Delaney and Taylor both ran cross country again this year....they both had a great season and we are sooooooo proud of both of them.

Kale played Jr. Hi football this year and this was his first year of contact football and he LOVED it.....I am not a huge football fan but REALLY enjoyed watching him play....he really had a great season too. I will post about that later.

I would like to focus this post on the girls' cross country season.

Taylor ran here last high school meet at regionals last week....she came up a little short to make it to state.....but ran a good race on a very tough course!!!! The team fell short too by placing 4th and they take the top 3 teams to state and we missed 3rd by 7 points.....grrrrrrr!!!

Anyway Taylor has had quite a career....she has ran cross country for 3 years and she went to state her first 2 years, has alot of medals to show for her hard work, has been ranked in the state many times, and has made some AWESOME friendships along the way!!!!!! Taylor I can not tell you how proud we are of your accomplishments so far in your life!!!!!! Not only has this experience alone made you a better athlete....it has made you a great person....lessons you will use the rest of you life. She is planning on trying to run when she heads off to college next fall....so we hope this was not our last time to watch her run cross country....one of our favorite sports to watch!!!!

Delaney too has had an outstanding year. This is her 2nd year of cross country. This has been her year to shine!!!!! She has gotten MANY gold medals, ranked in the state, many good friends, placed 1st in the conference and got 4th at regionals....and yes that qualified her for state!!!!! They take the top 10 individuals...so off to Ft.Dodge we went this past Saturday.....yes Halloween day...and brrrrrr it was quite chilly!!!!! But she was ready to run......she gave it everything she had and placed 29th out of 123 girls. Not as good of a finish as she would have hoped for but as a parent what more can you ask for!!!!!! We are very proud!!!!!

She has 2 more years to run so we are looking forward to that too!!!!

hapPy BiRtHdAy....

Look who turns 18 today.........

I can not believe Taylor is 18........

Oh my gosh look at how much she has grown up!!!!!!

ADORABLE then.........

BEAUTIFUL now!!!!!!!!!!

We are so proud of the young lady that you have grown up to be!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Taylor!!!!!!

We love you!!!!!!

HaPpY 18tH biRtHdAy tAyLoR!!!!!!!!

hOmEcOmiNg....

Wow......what a busy week we had last week!!!!!!!

HOMECOMING WEEK.......

I think anybody with kids involved with homecoming knows what a crazy week it is!!!!

Taylor was on the homecoming court.

CONGRATS to this years queen and king.......

Dani and Matt.

Taylor and Nick

Troy was the faculty king....

LOVE this picture of all the kids!!!!!

Senior float...Taylor's class got 2nd place.

7th grade....Kale's class took 3rd place.

The sophomores ....Laney's class didn't place.....and I thought it was a pretty good float.

This was my favorite.....the juniors.....they didn't place because it was not a "float" whatever that means......I liked the "thinking outside the box idea!!!!!!!

The QUEEN and her attendants.

Taylor, Jo, and Ally.

Taylor & Ally.

Ty, Kale, and Alex....AKA....ball boys.

WoRdLeSs wEdNeSdAy.......

bOyS WiLL bE bOyS........

We took the kids out today to take a few pictures........

The following pictures kinda tell you how our day went........

Kale did not want to take pictures........

Can you tell!?!?!?!?!?!??!