Happy 10th Birthday, Reggie!

Reggie turned 10 on August 6th. 😊

We celebrated as a family by going to a beach and grilling some brats and dogs.  Then, had some chocolate cake.  A few weeks later, we took seven boys to a minor league baseball game.  We will rethink that one next time! Haha! 

 It rained.  Some of the boys were not dressed for the weather.  I offered to take them home, but they all stuck it out and overall had a fun night.

Reggie weighs 90 pounds and is 4 foot 11 inches tall! Brett is one inch taller but weighs 10 pounds less. We are enjoying somewhat of a down season with Reggie, as we didn't put him on a football team this year. But the kid has so much energy and all he wants to do is sports. So he's in a wrestling class, "Monday Night Football" (where he goes and runs around with a football with the local high school team on Mondays), and will being doing a session of swimming lessons before wrestling season is in full swing. Oh, these kids keep us busy! I will have time to dust later.

GB 2019

Green Bay was so much fun this year that we stayed 6 full days!  Here are some notable high points:

•  The guys went to a baseball game at the new minor league baseball stadium.  The gals went out for mac'n'cheese and fancy chocolate.

 Lydia was finally tall enough to drive her own bumper car!

•  The little cheap amusement park added a really big ferris wheel that sits on the edge of Lake Michigan.

•  Uncle Adam and Courtney have a puppy who has almost as much energy as Reggie!

•  Cheese curds.
•  Water balloons.  Lots of water balloons.

•  Courtney had her bridal shower!

•  The turf football field and adjoining playground are so much fun!  We even got to get together with some friends from "back home".
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
•  The boys got lots of autographs.

•  Just hanging out.  Brett can always entertain us!

Golf Highlights

Golf is not much of a spectator sport, so my highlights of Brett's golf season are limited. Last year, he competed in the Special Olympics "skills" level, so we could go to the different stations with him and watch him.  This year, he advanced to "3-hole unified", which means he completes 3 holes with a Unified Partner.  Bryan was happy to have an excuse to golf with his son every week for basically free!  In 3-hole, the athlete and the unified partner alternate turns hitting the ball, and if they don't get it in the hole after 9 swings, they pick up their ball.  And that's pretty much all I know about it. 😉

 At the area tournament, they placed third in their division with a score of 24.  At the state tournament, Brett golfed his best ever, and Bryan did his typical golfing with a score of 16. They got 1st in their division!

Reggie and Lydia and I were only able to watch Bryan and Brett tee off on the first hole.  Then, in Reggie's word, we went to "hang out at the bar".  Haha!

No!  Not the "Bar", Reggie, the "Clubhouse"!

In case you haven't noticed, Bryan is getting a pretty nice collection of gold medals between baseball and golf!  He's a gold medal dad.

The Summer Day

The Summer Day Who made the world?  Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper?  This grasshopper, I mean-  the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wing open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel in the grass.,  how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?    Mary Oliver