The new school year officially begins on Tuesday, September 5th yet Rachel has had swim practice for the last two weeks and a meet again today so she is in the school mode and getting back on a schedule. She has found all her classes and lamented the fact that she seems to need to go from one end of the building to the other and back again between classes.
Stephen is taking one online class and began that on Monday, August 20th so he has been back in the school mode for over a week now and is still working each day at the beach life guarding. But summer is definitely winding down. We are beginning to see trees change color (part of that might be the drought conditions more than the seasons) and the mornings have definitely been cooler this past week.
We received our school calendar for the year and wanted to let everyone know that graduation is Thursday, May 29th at 7:00 p.m. and anyone who is interested is welcome to join us. We will be having a graduation party as well. When is still be figured out. If you would like to come, please let us know and we will work on making room for you. We will be renting the neighbor's second floor for some people to sleep and she is a dear retired music teacher who goes to our church and loves having people stay with her. We have three floors of space and as long as you don't mind being somewhat squished we can probably accommodate three sets of adults and various children tucked in at our house and one set of adults at the neighbors.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Swimming
Swimming has started!
we have a new coach this year ( Mr. Reed retired) the new coach is Kylie Mr.'s daughter she is doing okay so far but we ( me and my friends) and swimming Varsity for the first time and so we are really far behind everyone so we finish after everyone else has had a long break then Kylie immediately jumps up to tell up how many laps to swim next so we don't get any rest! We are very tired after swimming as you could imagine.
Other than that I ma waiting for school to start in a couple of weeks, and to get my schedule. they come out on Monday and after swimming that morning I am going to go and get it with one of my friends on the swim team.
That's all
Rachel
we have a new coach this year ( Mr. Reed retired) the new coach is Kylie Mr.'s daughter she is doing okay so far but we ( me and my friends) and swimming Varsity for the first time and so we are really far behind everyone so we finish after everyone else has had a long break then Kylie immediately jumps up to tell up how many laps to swim next so we don't get any rest! We are very tired after swimming as you could imagine.
Other than that I ma waiting for school to start in a couple of weeks, and to get my schedule. they come out on Monday and after swimming that morning I am going to go and get it with one of my friends on the swim team.
That's all
Rachel
Friday, August 17, 2007
Wow! Time really does fly!
Time is passing by so quickly, yet I think Rachel would also say sometimes it seems to not move at all. I guess it is just all relative.
I thought August was going to be a slower month. Hasn't happened so far and we are half way through it. Rachel started swim practice two weeks ago. She had a week of captain's practice and on Monday the coach began running practice. It is a new coach, the old coach (the only one the team had ever had) retired after 33 years of coaching. The new coach is the old coaches daughter but things are different. Rachel and her group of half a dozen or so 8th graders have all been asked to do the varsity practice and she is coming home exhausted every day. She is amazed at how hard she is being asked to work. They are the slowest lane and that means that the faster girls get longer rest periods because as soon as Rachel's lane finishes the coach starts the next set of laps.
Stephen is working, working working. He works 4 1/2 hours shifts each day. I believe that in August he is getting 3 days off. He had most of July off while he went to visit family out west, but it is making for a very swift moving month. He is ready for school to start. Monday he will start his college class for the fall. He will be taking Calculus II via the Univ. of Colo. at Colorado Springs. It is an online class with full lectures, white boards, discussion, Q&A sessions and all assignments submitted online. On one of his rare days off this month (next Monday) he will have senior pictures taken.
Icebox Radio Theater had their end of Summer live show bash on Wed. August 15th in Smokey Bear Park. Close to 200 people came out and listened to songs, skits, ads and a first, a feature length script by someone other than Jeff. Kenna Clayton, a local writer who attended one of the writer's workshops, completed a script and with Jeff's help got it edited and finished in time to produce it for the live show. It was called "Icebox Property" and was a fun story of local interests and intrigue. The show went very well and was well received. The first weekend in August IBRT recorded another new show, the pilot episode of "The Scoop Sisters" a hopeful serial series about a woman who owns a small town newspaper and her daughter and granddaughter who come to help out.
Diane works, helps out, and gardens. I have been harvesting beans, cucumbers and should be about ready to harvest zucchini. The tomatoes are very slow this year, but the first cherry tomatoes are beginning to turn red so we will be able to get a few tomatoes before the snow flies.
A group has started a local farmers' market so we have been able to enjoy local tomatoes already and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
We have spent several evenings or afternoons playing games as a family. On the return trip from picking up the kids, from visiting family out west, we stopped at a Twin cities game and comics store. We all had a wonderful time browsing and making a number of new game purchases. That has motivated us to get the games back out and enjoy as many moments as we can together. Time is definitely running down on the family nights together. We will have to make the most of the time this coming year.
Let us know what you are up to and know that you are in our thoughts and prayers.
Diane
I thought August was going to be a slower month. Hasn't happened so far and we are half way through it. Rachel started swim practice two weeks ago. She had a week of captain's practice and on Monday the coach began running practice. It is a new coach, the old coach (the only one the team had ever had) retired after 33 years of coaching. The new coach is the old coaches daughter but things are different. Rachel and her group of half a dozen or so 8th graders have all been asked to do the varsity practice and she is coming home exhausted every day. She is amazed at how hard she is being asked to work. They are the slowest lane and that means that the faster girls get longer rest periods because as soon as Rachel's lane finishes the coach starts the next set of laps.
Stephen is working, working working. He works 4 1/2 hours shifts each day. I believe that in August he is getting 3 days off. He had most of July off while he went to visit family out west, but it is making for a very swift moving month. He is ready for school to start. Monday he will start his college class for the fall. He will be taking Calculus II via the Univ. of Colo. at Colorado Springs. It is an online class with full lectures, white boards, discussion, Q&A sessions and all assignments submitted online. On one of his rare days off this month (next Monday) he will have senior pictures taken.
Icebox Radio Theater had their end of Summer live show bash on Wed. August 15th in Smokey Bear Park. Close to 200 people came out and listened to songs, skits, ads and a first, a feature length script by someone other than Jeff. Kenna Clayton, a local writer who attended one of the writer's workshops, completed a script and with Jeff's help got it edited and finished in time to produce it for the live show. It was called "Icebox Property" and was a fun story of local interests and intrigue. The show went very well and was well received. The first weekend in August IBRT recorded another new show, the pilot episode of "The Scoop Sisters" a hopeful serial series about a woman who owns a small town newspaper and her daughter and granddaughter who come to help out.
Diane works, helps out, and gardens. I have been harvesting beans, cucumbers and should be about ready to harvest zucchini. The tomatoes are very slow this year, but the first cherry tomatoes are beginning to turn red so we will be able to get a few tomatoes before the snow flies.
A group has started a local farmers' market so we have been able to enjoy local tomatoes already and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
We have spent several evenings or afternoons playing games as a family. On the return trip from picking up the kids, from visiting family out west, we stopped at a Twin cities game and comics store. We all had a wonderful time browsing and making a number of new game purchases. That has motivated us to get the games back out and enjoy as many moments as we can together. Time is definitely running down on the family nights together. We will have to make the most of the time this coming year.
Let us know what you are up to and know that you are in our thoughts and prayers.
Diane
Friday, August 3, 2007
Happy Friday!
It is Friday afternoon with the temperature at 75 degrees and only a light breeze. The Adams family is all back home again. We are very glad to be all together again. Jeff and I drove down to the cities on Monday to pick up the kids at the airport. Their plane landed at 3:46 and by the time they taxied to one gate, which malfunctioned, were towed to another gate and then disembarked after all the other passengers (which is standard operating procedure for unaccompanied minors who have to still have an escort) it was 4:40 when they got off the plane. We had their luggage and were in the car heading away from the airport at 5:15.
We stopped at the Source comic and game shop in Falcon Heights. Stephen had heard of them earlier, Rachel and I were introduced to them at Convergence and wanted to stop in and see what they had. It was a wonderful store. We purchased several new games for our families enjoyment.
The weather on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was HOT! We made it though. We spent the night at Alan and Elaine Johnson's with Elaine (Alan being in Chicago for the week) and had a wonderful evening catching up with their lives and sharing ours.
Tuesday and Thursday evenings we played games. It was great to settle in and enjoy one another's company. Stephen had Wednesday off and then started back lifeguarding on Thursday. He will be busy this month. I believe he only has three of the next 29 off.
Thursday was the summer reading finale picnic and the weather was cooler than the previous three or four days, but very windy. We had steady wind and gusts to probably 30 -35 mph. It made for an interesting picnic. Kool-aid cups would blow over, hot dogs were flying and I'm sure that more than one napkin or paper plate escaped the park for parts elsewhere. Rachel and a number of other teens came and helped serve banana splits. We celebrated the end of "Go Bananas @ Your Library" with what else but bananas!
Icebox Radio Theater is recording the pilot episode of what he hopes will be a serial story about the Scoop Sisters. He has a great cast and will rehearse tonight and record tomorrow. Then he dives into the live show in the bandshell in Smokey Bear Park on Wednesday, August 15th as part of the Concert in the Park series.
Rachel starts swim practice on Monday and is looking forward to the season. School is not far off and we will have a busy August getting ready.
Enjoy your summer and the weekend.
Diane
We stopped at the Source comic and game shop in Falcon Heights. Stephen had heard of them earlier, Rachel and I were introduced to them at Convergence and wanted to stop in and see what they had. It was a wonderful store. We purchased several new games for our families enjoyment.
The weather on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was HOT! We made it though. We spent the night at Alan and Elaine Johnson's with Elaine (Alan being in Chicago for the week) and had a wonderful evening catching up with their lives and sharing ours.
Tuesday and Thursday evenings we played games. It was great to settle in and enjoy one another's company. Stephen had Wednesday off and then started back lifeguarding on Thursday. He will be busy this month. I believe he only has three of the next 29 off.
Thursday was the summer reading finale picnic and the weather was cooler than the previous three or four days, but very windy. We had steady wind and gusts to probably 30 -35 mph. It made for an interesting picnic. Kool-aid cups would blow over, hot dogs were flying and I'm sure that more than one napkin or paper plate escaped the park for parts elsewhere. Rachel and a number of other teens came and helped serve banana splits. We celebrated the end of "Go Bananas @ Your Library" with what else but bananas!
Icebox Radio Theater is recording the pilot episode of what he hopes will be a serial story about the Scoop Sisters. He has a great cast and will rehearse tonight and record tomorrow. Then he dives into the live show in the bandshell in Smokey Bear Park on Wednesday, August 15th as part of the Concert in the Park series.
Rachel starts swim practice on Monday and is looking forward to the season. School is not far off and we will have a busy August getting ready.
Enjoy your summer and the weekend.
Diane
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