11th in the State for javelin.
With a bum elbow.
I am so glad she got to go and experience it all...even if the outcome wasn't what she wanted. It sucked to finish hurt, and not able to do her best.
But she did it.
And Shelby, we are so proud of you.
I took a few pictures...but this one is my favorite.
Til next year. :)
Shelby's MRI came back...definitely a strain. Not sure...a chance of a mild tear. It was an either or situation. After talking to her coaches & her physical therapist...she is going to try and throw today. They will tape her elbow and she will give it her best shot.
I'm so glad she will have the chance to try. So we are off to Tacoma.
This week has just seemed so insanely busy. Like today feels like Saturday.
We will come home tonight, and then the boys (Iz, Luke & Ian) leave tomorrow for Yakima...they want to cheer on the baseball team at State. So that will be a fun man-cation for them.
Shelby will still be at State with the track team (it's a 2-3 day thing)...so that leaves Belle and me.
We are going to have some mother-daughter fun tomorrow.
A little shopping in Burlington...dinner together...then home for a movie:
and popcorn. We thought about going to the theater...but she didn't want to see The Avengers (darn!)...and I didn't want to see Hunger Games. (she didn't either.)
So. Home it is. And that's fine. :)
Enjoy your Thursday!
That's today.
A work day, get things done, cross lots of stuff off day.
Yesterday was crazy day.
I left the house at 9am and really didn't get home again until 8pm.
Shelby went to the doctor, and ended up getting an MRI on her elbow.
We should get results today. Crossing our fingers that she'll at least be able to tape it and try to throw. If not...praying for some peace for a very disappointed young lady. :(
Luke had a good birthday. He's also done with his Senior presentation, which went well.
I think he's soooooo glad to be done with that. And...
he got a job at Safeway! woohoo! I plan to go and secretly watch him stock shelves.
Ian and Belle had ball games. It was Belle's last one:
The Glowsticks ended up being the champions!
Here's Belle getting her trophy from Coach Blake.
And finally...late at night. Luke got his Dairy Queen ice cream cake.
He teased and teased about blowing out the candles...
So Ian did it for him..
which resulted with Ian on the floor.
But he came up smiling for cake.
Happy Wednesday!
And happy birthday to my brother Phil today!! :)
Yesterday I felt overwhelmed. Unpacking. Laundry. Work Stuff. A lot.
So I unpacked (mostly)...threw a load in the laundry and took off for the mall.
I actually NEEDED to go to Target for food & stuff...but it morphed into the mall.
Let me rephrase. I went to the mall on the last day of a Canadian holiday.
Such a mistake. I still have a headache. I am lucky to be alive.
Then I took Shelby in to the physical therapist (her elbow was bothering her)...and he thinks maybe she either stretched or partially tore a ligament in her elbow. :(
So we have a doctor/x-ray appointment this morning. Hopefully, it's just stretched. Then she could put on a brace and throw at State on Thursday. With a tear, not so much.
I soooo hope for her sake that she can at least try. She's worked so hard, and come so far.
Then I took Ian and Belle to the pool. (Shelby was too cool for the pool.)
I think Ian would wear goggles in the shower if I'd let him. Or maybe to bed.
Then we ordered Chinese food because that's what Luke wanted for his birthday dinner.
Which we can't have tonight because there's supposed to be a baseball game and a fastpitch game. We'll see. Stupid rain.
Speaking of birthdays.....
Guess who is 18 TODAY???
This boy.
I love you Luke. Good luck on your senior project presentation today!
Happy Tuesday!
I had such a great weekend. :) Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes.
It's a little crazy when you're catching a plane and ending up somewhere else on your birthday. California was fun...not HOT like I'd hoped...but at least sunny.
The event was a blast. Fun ladies...amazing projects...shopping...and a little something called:
Thank you Ginger, for introducing me.
I had praline pecan...and it was divine!!
In other news....
Go Jacob Girls!!!
1. Shelby.
Is going to State for javelin!! I think we go to Mt. Tahoma on Thursday.
Go Shelby Go!
2. Belle.
Made the Blue Ranger soccer team! She's so happy. :)
3. Me.
I get to work like crazy all week! Woohoo! ;)
The jet-setting is all done. I have soooo many projects to get busy on.
And tomorrow is Luke's birthday. Yikes. Good thing his gift is taken care of.
Gack...graduation is sneaking up on me.
Ok...off to work. Maybe Starbucks first. Just on principle.
I have to do something about my photographic slump.
I schlepped my camera all the way to California and did not take ONE picture.
I suck.
Happy Monday!
Leaving this afternoon for sunny California and....
It's a first for Teresa...a mini event, so to speak. "Only" 108? women. :)
I cannot wait. Fun classes. Girl time. Hopefully some shopping.
And I'm leaving on my birthday. Happy birthday to me.
This time I will remember Harlan. Poor thing didn't get taken to Washington DC.
I remembered some time between the Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol that he was home in the closet. This time he will be surrounded by women.
I'm off to do about 106 errands before I leave.
Happy Thursday...I hope to check in tomorrow, but if it's crazy I might not make it...
From our trip last week...one of the highlights was Arlington National Cemetery.
Some facts:
1. It is open 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
2. There are about 100 graveside services conducted each week.
3. The cemetery is 624 acres.
4. The tomb guard marches 21 steps down the mat, turns and faces east for 21 seconds, turns and faces north for 21 seconds, then takes 21 steps back down the mat and repeats the process.
5. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is guarded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in all weather.
It is an amazingly beautiful, reverent place.
This was at the changing of the guard.
Guarding the tomb is very serious business, and it's a high honor to serve in this way.
And from last night....
Ian called me on my cell when I was on my way home from Bellingham.
It was his bedtime, and he wanted to say good night.
He was almost ready to hang up when he said, "Mom...could you come down and pray with me when you get home? I just wanna see your face."
That dripping sound is my heart melting.
Happy Wednesday!
Happy birthday today to my brother Eldon, and my sweet friend Sonja! :)
This was on the TC Design Team blog last week...
I made it with pretty much whatever I had laying around.
The covers are from a piece of cardboard that came in the mail with a package.
It's a book about our most recent jaunt to the tulips.
I used lots of TC Fabrications Canvas goodies...
I love that count your blessings stamp. :)
This page is made from a manilla file folder.
Speaking of manilla file folders...
Ian and I started watching Wonder Woman last night.
Season 1 is set in post WWII, I think. There are still plenty of Nazi bad guys to go around.
Diana Prince was looking for some files that would exonerate Steve Trevor, but she couldn't find them. {Insert impending doom here.}
The funny thing was...she was looking in a filing cabinet, thumbing through unlabeled manilla file folders. I'm not surprised she couldn't find them. I don't know how she found anything in there.
I'm sure Ian was sitting there wondering why she just didn't look for them on her computer.
HA.
(In her defense, she couldn't have found them because the evil Baroness stole them.)
Anyway. She saved the day.
Sidenote: Wonder Woman had a tiny waist and some serious junk in her trunk.
Happy Tuesday!
