katie conquers the monkey bars!

the monkey bars have always given her trouble. she has tried off & on over the years...lately she has been going to the park & practicing, so the other nite she asked me to come watch her, & the girl can do the monkey bars! This is a big deal!
she met Kelsie at the park last nite, I went over to check on her about dusk, no girls. My heart stopped for a second, then I saw the lights at Kelsie's Grandma Sheryl's across the way, all was well. I took a flashlight, we walked home instead of driving, & watched the fireflies.
after we got home we got online & looked at hotel options for our upcoming vacation to Worlds of Fun, we're going down the nite before & staying in a hotel with a pool. we didn't select one last nite, Katie found spa packages & all kinds of cool stuff. It will just be the 4 of us, Koren has to work.

3rd place in Milan Tournament!

Katie had another awesome game, I find it amazing that a girl who had no interest in softball previous to May has practiced & developed some skills. And she has DETERMINATION.
Katie & I walked uptown & then to the school park, KJ picked us up when he took his friend Josh home, then Katie had a message to call Kelsie, she met her at the City Park next door (Kelsie's grandma lives on the other side of the city park). I did some cleaning. I congratulated myself on finally finding the solution to the clutter pile by Kevin's La-Z-Boy. we'll see how good I did....

sometimes you win, sometimes you lose...

@ tonite's installment of the Milan Tournament: the girls lost their first game of the season to a Unionville team, 9-10. Katie had THREE runs! the loss kicked us out of the first place shot, so had to play for the chance to go for 3rd place. They won that one against Green City, 10-9. Katie had a run that game, & fielded a ball that resulted in an OUT. I cheered, I videotaped, I took pictures, I gossipped with other moms.
play again tomorrow @ 6p.m.

water pressure

got home from work, no water pressure. everyone we've talked to on our side of town has no pressure. kate just had to walk somewhere, anywhere, & I had walked all day @ work, so I'm hanging out getting ready to watch my new Futurama dvd (was going to watch it last nite, but we rented something something the Spartans), kate is walking next door to the park to shoot hoops, corey & josh are over to hang out with kj & his 'new' x-box. kevin is of course going to work.
thinking I'll eat some of the cinnamin popcorn (it's made at the popcorn place at trenton, we buy it at hy-vee.) I did clean the LR floor last nite, now I notice that the sun shining thru the picture windows shows how dirty they are....(sigh.)
can't do laundry or dishes. awww, shucks. my favorite hobbies. darn the whole water pressure situation....

go cardinals!

kevin caught a few hours of sleep, then took katie & our neighbor morgan to their tournament @ milan. katie got sick on the way, so daddy had to go shopping to get her new shorts, & wet ones to clean her shirt up, & she went on to have her best game ever...2 @ bats, they got her out at first base, AND she had a run! I was so excited! they play again monday @ 5:30, I'll have to leave work early.
the lawnmower was here when I got home from work (we borrow the in-laws) & was out of gas, so had to run to lineville after gas (and soft serve ice cream!), threw a turkey in the oven & mowed the yard. the house smells heavenly. really really really need to sweep the floor, the sunshine really shows the dust. have laundry to put away...the fun never ends.

dance fever

tonite was the variety show @ Eagleville, it started on the square, kate was excited about the rides, which she was going to do as soon as she danced. we had taken her real clothes & everything. I was all caught up in the small town charm, we lived there once upon a time when koren was born, long long ago, on a street with no name, & I naively thought we would live there forever, our kids would be Shamrocks...now Eagleville has road signs!
And of course we don't live there...
anyway, the sky kept getting darker, the wind kicked up, they moved the variety show 2 blocks over to the school gym. the rides & games were gone, they did move the popcorn machine...
katie & zane had to wait forever to dance, they were marvelous. A girl in the bathroom complimented katie when she went to change...I thought that was cool, a compliment not from her dance teacher or family.
we hung around & watched a lot of the talent show....lots of cool acts. we left a little after 9, ran thru mcdonalds drive thru, then put $93.50 in the truck in princeton on the way home so kevin, katie, & our neighbor morgan won't have to stop on the way to milan to the 10:00a.m. tournament game. I'll be hanging out in the exciting world of hog confinement.
next weekend will be busy. the 4th of july at mercer park, the 4th of july in princeton that is actually the 5th of july kate & zane dance, then they dance again the next day at the princeton alumni dinner...she will dance with zane, & do her jazz routine with her instructor for the 1st time in public...

rain rain go away

katie's make up softball game was cancelled today...
so we're having a dance practice instead, since neither zane nor katie will have games tomorrow nite, they'll tap dance at a variety show in cainsville. stephanie
(dance teacher) has them on the program for princeton's 4th of july next weekend, & they've also been asked to dance at the princeton all school reunion deal.
corey is over playing X-Box again.
kate's team is supposed to play at 10am saturday in the tournament, kevin has taken the day off (if they get to play...the whole when-did-we-move-to-the-rainforest-deal), since it is my weekend, & no one gets off on their weekend, no way, no how. And I won't ask after my last weekend when I took my lunch to see kate's first ever recital. (a softball tournament in milan is a whole different ball game...ha.)