Thursday, July 10, 2008
Gymnastics Thursday
trying the splits--(Hannah is in the green tank top)
Hannah and the splits
Hannah trying a hand stand
Forward roll on the beam
Hannah doing a hand stand on the beam
Hannah had another gymnastics session today and I finally got Steve to leave the camera for a day. After taking pictures of Hannah doing her gymnastics moves, I've decided my camera STINKS !!
None of the pictures really turned out, becasue of the movement, even on sports mode. So I included a few of the better ones on here and decided with gymnastics, video is more appropriate anyway.
She is doing much better, but still can be a little stiff and tentitive on things. She loves it though, so for 6, and being that she could bearly do a forward roll at the beginning, she has improved alot. She learned cartwheels today!!!
She got to go on the bars for the first time today, and really likes that so far.
(some video coming on that in the next post)
Hannah and the splits
Hannah trying a hand stand
Forward roll on the beam
Hannah doing a hand stand on the beam
Hannah had another gymnastics session today and I finally got Steve to leave the camera for a day. After taking pictures of Hannah doing her gymnastics moves, I've decided my camera STINKS !!
None of the pictures really turned out, becasue of the movement, even on sports mode. So I included a few of the better ones on here and decided with gymnastics, video is more appropriate anyway.
She is doing much better, but still can be a little stiff and tentitive on things. She loves it though, so for 6, and being that she could bearly do a forward roll at the beginning, she has improved alot. She learned cartwheels today!!!
She got to go on the bars for the first time today, and really likes that so far.
(some video coming on that in the next post)
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
wait!..... there's more to tell
Forgot to mention we went to the Timber Rattlers (T-rats) game last Thursday night too in Appleton. The team is a minor league baseball team, affilated with the major league team the Seattle Mariners. Before about 1995, the team was known as the Appleton Foxes, which baseball great Alex Rodriguez (A-rod) played for. It's kinda neat to know such a great player came from my home town area, therefore my dad is also a big fan.
Included is a pic of me and my sister at the game and the kids. Hannah was SOOOO bored, they did have a playground and a blow up slide she played on before the game, but by the 4th inning already she was asking how much longer and by the 5 inning until the end of the game it was "I wanna go home" every 10 minutes. That part wasn't so fun.
Lisa and I at the game
Bailey with his newest foam finger
Hannah coming down the slide
team mascot--"Fang"
ME
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Now I think I am up to Saturday--July 5. We took our time getting up that morning. Bailey stayed overnight at Lisa and Wil's house. We planned on meeting Lisa and Wil in Oshkosh for a city festival called Sawdust Days Sat. afternoon.
Hannah, my parents, and I, left home a little earlier, because recently I found out, that Oshkosh's outlet mall has the only American Girl outlet in the country. It wasn't nearly as big as Chicago, but Hannah went though all the same feelings of searching for the perfect outfit, and we circled the little store many times looking. Being an outlet, some of their outfits, were marked "imperfect" and we got 2 outfits for 1/2 price. I also bought her the "Coconut" dog beach towel also at 1/2 price.
Hannah's doll in the kayak that she really wants...(shhhhh grandma bought it for her birthday)
Hannah at the American Girl Outlet in Oshkosh
We then met Lisa, Wil, and Bailey for lunch at a neat place called Fratello's, it's on a lake and we ate outside. I liked their Captin' Crunch coated chicken tenders.
at Fratello's
From there we went to Memominee Park for the festivities. Lisa and Wil go every year to see one of their main attractions, the TIGERS!!! They are a travelling group from Texas, that rescue "big" cats. They had 2 baby tigers, 2 large tigers ( one white), a black lepoard (ie: black panther) , a spotted lepoard, and a bob cat looking aninmal, forget what they called it. The larger tigers were only about year old, and were the baby tigers Lisa and Wil got their picture with last year. The baby tigers were I think they said 2 months old, and for a donation to help feed the tigers ($18 for a 5x7 picture) , the kids and I sat and touched a really cute tiger cub and got our picture taken. Over the years Lisa and Wil have done this about 7 times now, and some year I knew I wanted to do that. How cool. !!! Picture is below. We didn't stay too much longer, it was a warm day and there were kids rides and a flea market going on, but we just decided to head home and save our money for the rest of the week. oh but Hannah had to feed the goats first.
Hannah got to feed the tiger cub
The 2 big tigers that were babies last year
Picture of the kids and I by the tiger cub named, "Crocket"
Hannah feeding the goats
ok, eat right out of the cup !!!
Included is a pic of me and my sister at the game and the kids. Hannah was SOOOO bored, they did have a playground and a blow up slide she played on before the game, but by the 4th inning already she was asking how much longer and by the 5 inning until the end of the game it was "I wanna go home" every 10 minutes. That part wasn't so fun.
Lisa and I at the game
Bailey with his newest foam finger
Hannah coming down the slide
team mascot--"Fang"
ME
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Now I think I am up to Saturday--July 5. We took our time getting up that morning. Bailey stayed overnight at Lisa and Wil's house. We planned on meeting Lisa and Wil in Oshkosh for a city festival called Sawdust Days Sat. afternoon.
Hannah, my parents, and I, left home a little earlier, because recently I found out, that Oshkosh's outlet mall has the only American Girl outlet in the country. It wasn't nearly as big as Chicago, but Hannah went though all the same feelings of searching for the perfect outfit, and we circled the little store many times looking. Being an outlet, some of their outfits, were marked "imperfect" and we got 2 outfits for 1/2 price. I also bought her the "Coconut" dog beach towel also at 1/2 price.
Hannah's doll in the kayak that she really wants...(shhhhh grandma bought it for her birthday)
Hannah at the American Girl Outlet in Oshkosh
We then met Lisa, Wil, and Bailey for lunch at a neat place called Fratello's, it's on a lake and we ate outside. I liked their Captin' Crunch coated chicken tenders.
at Fratello's
From there we went to Memominee Park for the festivities. Lisa and Wil go every year to see one of their main attractions, the TIGERS!!! They are a travelling group from Texas, that rescue "big" cats. They had 2 baby tigers, 2 large tigers ( one white), a black lepoard (ie: black panther) , a spotted lepoard, and a bob cat looking aninmal, forget what they called it. The larger tigers were only about year old, and were the baby tigers Lisa and Wil got their picture with last year. The baby tigers were I think they said 2 months old, and for a donation to help feed the tigers ($18 for a 5x7 picture) , the kids and I sat and touched a really cute tiger cub and got our picture taken. Over the years Lisa and Wil have done this about 7 times now, and some year I knew I wanted to do that. How cool. !!! Picture is below. We didn't stay too much longer, it was a warm day and there were kids rides and a flea market going on, but we just decided to head home and save our money for the rest of the week. oh but Hannah had to feed the goats first.
Hannah got to feed the tiger cub
The 2 big tigers that were babies last year
Picture of the kids and I by the tiger cub named, "Crocket"
Hannah feeding the goats
ok, eat right out of the cup !!!
Monday, July 7, 2008
just a few more 4th of July pictures
HANNAH ON THE PONY RIDE--HER PONY WAS NAMED "CHIEF"
WATER SKI SHOW
BAILEY AND HANNAH AT THE RIVERSIDE PARK FOUNTIAN
WAITING FOR THE MENASHA FIREWORKS TO START
WATER SKI SHOW
BAILEY AND HANNAH AT THE RIVERSIDE PARK FOUNTIAN
WAITING FOR THE MENASHA FIREWORKS TO START
4th of July, 2008--with fireworks that never happened, oh wait! they did
Bailey and Hannah on the 4th of July 2008
big rocketship playground at Riverside park
big blow up obsticle course
Hannah on the blow up slide
Hannah twirling a ribbon she got for free at the park
Yeah I'm a little behind on my postings, we've been so busy and finally now today have some time. We've been doing something everyday. The 4th of July was such a nice day here in WI, hot in the sun, but nice. We spent the afternoon at Riverside Park in Neenah, the place I remember going alot as a kid for 4th of July. Now days though, instead of the tiny little metal rocket ship we played on, they have this bigger than big, rocket ship playground. Kids had a "blast" on that stuff.
We had a picnic in the park with my grandparents too. Grandpa is still very weak, but improving and it was good to see them. They figure now that grandpa had a touch of the flu and pneumonia, and that all affected his heart. His blood is very thin and he is on medication yet for all of this, and continues to get blood tests to get everything regulated. Hopefully by the time they go back to AZ he is off all the meds he is taking for his heart etc. and eveything gets back to the way it should be.
They had a tons of activites for the kids to do there, blow up slides, obsticle courses, pony rides, we watched a water ski show, which would have been better if we could see, so many people. There was also the Wisconsin Singers, which is a bunch of college kids who sing and dance, from UW-Madison, but that we couldn't see well either. They have a big fountain in the park, that the kids played in, and they got soaked just before we were gonna leave. I ran into a friend of mine and her 2 young boys, which was a nice surprise, so we chatted while the kids played in the fountain.
We left the park then about 5pm, and headed over to DQ for some Archies famous popcorn, and on the 4th thay make it red white and blue. A must have....yum. We came home to let Lou out and feed him and give him some lovin. We then headed to Wil's parents house for a bbq supper (same as what we ate for lunch) :). We played ladder ball (ie: testicle toss) and then got ready a little after 8pm to go to Jefferson Park, (another childhood hot spot), to go get a spot to watch fireworks. We walked a few blocks to the park from Wil's parents house, so that was nice to be able to park there, instead of getting in all the traffic.
Kids were excited we found the perfect spot among the thousands of people for firework watching right above us....except after waiting around eating our red, white and blue popcorn for an hour.....kids were getting tired and antsy for the fireworks to start. Lisa and I were reminicing and giggling about the years we went to Pickerel for the 4th as kids, (by my grandparents who used to live up north). How up there there would be a firework in red, green or blue, every 10 minutes.
Well our memories were not too far off in good ole Menasha, as the first firework went off about 9:45pm we all cheered as we rushed to get settled in for the 1/2 hour or so of fireworks to come. That was it, oh wait, about 10 min later another one...we cheered again, then another one a few minutes later and then.....nothing. We waited for another 20 min or so, and still nothing. We were frustrated, kids were crabby and tired. What a way to end the 4th of July. So as many people got up to leave, we finally decided to as well. It was going on 10:30pm and still no fireworks. Neenah's fireworks at Riverside park, we could kinda see across the water and said we should a have just stayed there, and theirs were done and over by 10PM. We knew the wind had picked up a bit, so assumed that was the reason for the delay or cancellation or whatever, nobody knew what was going on...until we left.... and in the crowd of people walking to their cars, was a couple who was sitting up near where they were lighting them off, they were told along with several thousand people they had to move that they were too close to the fireworks because of the wind now it was more of a danger, and they weren't planning on doing anymore until all these people were moved. This couple left too thinking how are they gonna move all these people and still do the fireworks so late with many people having already left. As we were walking back to our car at Wil's parents house, they started the fireworks....which by now was about 10:45pm. We did get to see them standing on the sidewalk, on the corner of 5th and London St. from a distance thinking how cool they would have been from our spot underneath them.
It was amazing that the neighborhoods around there too had just as big fireworks shooting off from their driveways. Legal to buy, illeagal to set off without a permit, so hopefully they had permits, but they were fun to watch. Anyway, the kids were gonna sleep at Lisa's house that night, but with the fireworks so goofy and Hannah was tired and just wanted to go back to grandpa/ma's and Bailey still wanted to stay over so he went home with them.
big rocketship playground at Riverside park
big blow up obsticle course
Hannah on the blow up slide
Hannah twirling a ribbon she got for free at the park
Yeah I'm a little behind on my postings, we've been so busy and finally now today have some time. We've been doing something everyday. The 4th of July was such a nice day here in WI, hot in the sun, but nice. We spent the afternoon at Riverside Park in Neenah, the place I remember going alot as a kid for 4th of July. Now days though, instead of the tiny little metal rocket ship we played on, they have this bigger than big, rocket ship playground. Kids had a "blast" on that stuff.
We had a picnic in the park with my grandparents too. Grandpa is still very weak, but improving and it was good to see them. They figure now that grandpa had a touch of the flu and pneumonia, and that all affected his heart. His blood is very thin and he is on medication yet for all of this, and continues to get blood tests to get everything regulated. Hopefully by the time they go back to AZ he is off all the meds he is taking for his heart etc. and eveything gets back to the way it should be.
They had a tons of activites for the kids to do there, blow up slides, obsticle courses, pony rides, we watched a water ski show, which would have been better if we could see, so many people. There was also the Wisconsin Singers, which is a bunch of college kids who sing and dance, from UW-Madison, but that we couldn't see well either. They have a big fountain in the park, that the kids played in, and they got soaked just before we were gonna leave. I ran into a friend of mine and her 2 young boys, which was a nice surprise, so we chatted while the kids played in the fountain.
We left the park then about 5pm, and headed over to DQ for some Archies famous popcorn, and on the 4th thay make it red white and blue. A must have....yum. We came home to let Lou out and feed him and give him some lovin. We then headed to Wil's parents house for a bbq supper (same as what we ate for lunch) :). We played ladder ball (ie: testicle toss) and then got ready a little after 8pm to go to Jefferson Park, (another childhood hot spot), to go get a spot to watch fireworks. We walked a few blocks to the park from Wil's parents house, so that was nice to be able to park there, instead of getting in all the traffic.
Kids were excited we found the perfect spot among the thousands of people for firework watching right above us....except after waiting around eating our red, white and blue popcorn for an hour.....kids were getting tired and antsy for the fireworks to start. Lisa and I were reminicing and giggling about the years we went to Pickerel for the 4th as kids, (by my grandparents who used to live up north). How up there there would be a firework in red, green or blue, every 10 minutes.
Well our memories were not too far off in good ole Menasha, as the first firework went off about 9:45pm we all cheered as we rushed to get settled in for the 1/2 hour or so of fireworks to come. That was it, oh wait, about 10 min later another one...we cheered again, then another one a few minutes later and then.....nothing. We waited for another 20 min or so, and still nothing. We were frustrated, kids were crabby and tired. What a way to end the 4th of July. So as many people got up to leave, we finally decided to as well. It was going on 10:30pm and still no fireworks. Neenah's fireworks at Riverside park, we could kinda see across the water and said we should a have just stayed there, and theirs were done and over by 10PM. We knew the wind had picked up a bit, so assumed that was the reason for the delay or cancellation or whatever, nobody knew what was going on...until we left.... and in the crowd of people walking to their cars, was a couple who was sitting up near where they were lighting them off, they were told along with several thousand people they had to move that they were too close to the fireworks because of the wind now it was more of a danger, and they weren't planning on doing anymore until all these people were moved. This couple left too thinking how are they gonna move all these people and still do the fireworks so late with many people having already left. As we were walking back to our car at Wil's parents house, they started the fireworks....which by now was about 10:45pm. We did get to see them standing on the sidewalk, on the corner of 5th and London St. from a distance thinking how cool they would have been from our spot underneath them.
It was amazing that the neighborhoods around there too had just as big fireworks shooting off from their driveways. Legal to buy, illeagal to set off without a permit, so hopefully they had permits, but they were fun to watch. Anyway, the kids were gonna sleep at Lisa's house that night, but with the fireworks so goofy and Hannah was tired and just wanted to go back to grandpa/ma's and Bailey still wanted to stay over so he went home with them.
picking strawberries
grandpa and Hannah picking
me,grandpa, and Hannah picking
Bailey in the strawberry field
Hannah with a goofy strawberry
me and the kids
Well, we did it!! The kids and I went to pick strawberries. We went to Oakridge Farms in Neenah, WI with my parents last Thursday morning. (July 3). We took a neat tractor ride out to the fields, and then spent about an hour picking. The kids had alot fun. We picked 2 full trays. There were TONS of berries out there. We could eat as many as we wanted as we picked, so Bailey took full advantage of that, but Hannah refused to try one, until about half way into it, and finally she gave in and then couldn't stop eating them.....they were so yummy. We came out of the strawberry fields with red shoes, and red lips.
me,grandpa, and Hannah picking
Bailey in the strawberry field
Hannah with a goofy strawberry
me and the kids
Well, we did it!! The kids and I went to pick strawberries. We went to Oakridge Farms in Neenah, WI with my parents last Thursday morning. (July 3). We took a neat tractor ride out to the fields, and then spent about an hour picking. The kids had alot fun. We picked 2 full trays. There were TONS of berries out there. We could eat as many as we wanted as we picked, so Bailey took full advantage of that, but Hannah refused to try one, until about half way into it, and finally she gave in and then couldn't stop eating them.....they were so yummy. We came out of the strawberry fields with red shoes, and red lips.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
going back to my roots.
Kids and I (and Lou) are going to WI for the 4th of July weekend. It's been a long time since we've been to WI (since last summer), and even longer since I spent a 4th of July in WI. (probably about 12 years ago.)
Leaving tomorrow, and coming back either Monday or maybe Tuesday. We have alot of plans while we are there, so we'll be busy busy. Steve is staying home, planning to continue on working hard as always, is not too into too many long days at the in laws when he could be working, and 4th of July I don't think is his favorite holiday anyway.
Stop back to be sure to hear what we did.
I just got us back to a normal week at home and off we are again, as I am once again franticly packing and cleaning up. (uuggh... I hate that part of vacations). I worked hard at the hotel 5 days straight, and now am off until next Friday & Sat. Yippee for me! Have a safe and happy 4th !! God Bless America
Leaving tomorrow, and coming back either Monday or maybe Tuesday. We have alot of plans while we are there, so we'll be busy busy. Steve is staying home, planning to continue on working hard as always, is not too into too many long days at the in laws when he could be working, and 4th of July I don't think is his favorite holiday anyway.
Stop back to be sure to hear what we did.
I just got us back to a normal week at home and off we are again, as I am once again franticly packing and cleaning up. (uuggh... I hate that part of vacations). I worked hard at the hotel 5 days straight, and now am off until next Friday & Sat. Yippee for me! Have a safe and happy 4th !! God Bless America
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