Baseball

Kurtis LOVES baseball. He's on a traveling team that has won 3 out of 4 tournaments.  He used his birthday and eagle money to buy a nice new bat (which cost as much as Jeff paid for his first car - ahhhh).  One of my favorite mom things is to go to the ball fields and watch Kurt do what he loves to do!

 

Another Tri

Our city has the best triathlons and organizer ever!
We couldn't miss a tri in our own back yard.

LeAnn and Liz did the International Distance (Liz's first one and she won 5th place in her age group!). Jeff and Madi did the Super Sprint.  The top of LeAnn's helmet flew off during the bike, guess it's time for a new one.
We love to tri!

 

Random May Pictures

Notice the placement of the toilet paper holder. It typically
goes in the corner, but our sweet J needs it a little closer:) 

First zucchini from the garden - yum! 

Nick found a turtle in our driveway, a few days later Jeff came home to a deer

wandering around the yard - we have our own little zoo.

The boys are done with bunk beds...for now.

Justin's reader's theater - he was the narrator, but really wanted to act.

 

Good Old Pals

My Dad completed his second 1/2 Marathon in Provo, UT. He did fantastic and it was wonderful to spend the morning with him. I'm his only daughter and "good old pals" goes back to when I was a baby.

My amazing sister-in-law (and nutrition/exercise coach) ran the full marathon and qualified for Boston again - way to go Steph!

 

Kurtis

Happy Day Kurt Kurt - We Love You!

 

Teenage Eagle

Kurtis had his Eagle Court of Honor and turned 13 all on the same day. He shared the evening with his good friend Kimball and they were both presented with their eagle awards from their wonderful scoutmaster Ben Johnson. Kurtis choose Coach Jason Cole, his fantastic baseball coach, to receive his mentor pin. Kudos to Kristen Miner for capturing the evening with beautiful pictures for lasting memories!

 

 

 

 

Thanks to dear friends for sharing the evening with us~

 

Grandma made beautiful eagle's for the boys - thank you!

 

Kurtis’ Eagle Leadership Service Project: built a roof and waiting bench

at the Peachtree City Baseball & Soccer Complex.

Special Thanks to:

Joe Kuebler: little league and city correspondence, and working on project 

PTC Little League: donating money, shingles, and dirt 

Peachtree City: donating building permit and inspections 

Fairburn Ready Mix: donating cement slab, sending truck to site and pouring cement 

Home Depot: donating $100 & James helping find everything 

Matt Denison: creating project plans and working on project 

Duane Clarke: donating roof nails, tar paper and nail gun 

Ben Johnson: donating hammer drill and working on project 

Mike & Ryan Trusty: working on project

70.3

Jeff challenged me to another 1/2 ironman - always an adventure!
Grandma & Grandpa met us in Isle of Palm, SC to watch us race and entertain the boys.  We stayed at a beach house and thanks to the Johnsons, we were hooked up with beach boards that kept the boys glued to the waves.

 

 

Getting ready...

 

The weather was great - overcast and not crazy hot.

 

 

The boys had time for miniature golf & fast food with G & G during our 56mile bike ride.
Thanks Grandma & Grandpa for another wonderful vacation!

 

Celebrating after - what a day!

 

Getting ready to go back to reality.

 

A welcome home surprise of beautiful sidewalk art on our driveway. Thanks to my dear friends (& running cohorts), Liz & Kristen and their families for cheers from home & Liz sharing her bike trailer yet again.  The aero bars from Greg made the bike ride dreamy. Only a dedicated coach would run the last 7 miles with Jeff - Kudos to Kim!

 

We both improved our 2010 time by over 30 minutes!
What's our next adventure baby?!?!

 

Silver Comet

We spent the morning biking on the Silver Comet.

LeAnn & Liz biked 50 miles and Jeff & Boys biked 20 miles.
Beautiful weather and location!

 

A GREAT Visit!

We were blessed to have Jeff's Grandma/the boy's only living Great Grandma & his cute Aunt Pat come stay with us.  Grandma is almost 91 years old and she runs around like someone half her age.  Grandma & Pat watched soccer and baseball games, went to the Cyclorama, Hunger Games/The Lorax, out to eat, golf cart rides, an egg hunt, and much more.  We loved having them here and hope they'll keep coming at least until Grandma is 100:)

 

 

Egg Hunt

Our Neighborhood Egg Hunt gets smaller as the kids get bigger,
but it's still a fun tradition.