Want to Make a Memory

2016-11-07T21:10:00.001-05:00

Sunday, November 6, 2016

2016-11-07T21:10:00.000-05:00

John scoring a goal.

2016-08-08T18:48:00.002-04:00

First day of school 2016 Kids had a long first day of school. Mainly the waiting almost 45 minutes for the bus in the morning. In addition to just being late due to new routes/new drivers, they came upon an accident blocking the road. In the afternoon, they didn't leave the school until almost an hour after dismissal school got out. Then took them another hour to get home. Am sure tomorrow they'll have a shorter commute!

First Day of School

2015-08-10T08:45:00.000-04:00

First day of school. Didn't get a photo of John because his bus came 20 minutes before the scheduled time. We were waiting at his bus stop and a neighbor stopped by. She was driving her fifth grade son to school so she gave us a ride!

Trip to Kings Island

2015-06-15T15:48:00.000-04:00

At the pool

2015-06-08T16:57:00.000-04:00

Tournament

2015-05-17T17:39:00.000-04:00

Team finished 2nd place in tournament.

2015-03-17T18:30:00.000-04:00

I thought I'd make some sugar cookies. So glad Alyssa came home after her running club and wanted to do all of the hard work rolling out the dough. I let her do all of the frosting as well.

2015-03-16T18:00:00.000-04:00

Nice 73 degree day the kids got to enjoy after school. I thought it was great and I spent almost half the day out in the yard. However it was so disappointing that it was just a teaser! Makes the normal temps feel that much colder now.

2015-02-23T17:08:00.002-05:00

Kids waiting at the bus stop on their first day back after 9 total days away from school. It's like they had an early spring break. Monday was President's Day so they were off. Then Tuesday and Wednesday they were off due to snow. Thursday and Friday schools were cancelled due to the extreme cold (wind chills -20+ below) Then Saturday it snowed all day and we got an additional 6-8 inches. If we got that snow on another day, they probably would have cancelled school.

2015-01-27T20:36:00.000-05:00

Indoor soccer weekly at a roller arena.

2015-01-22T16:00:00.000-05:00

Enjoyed staying the evening at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass in Phoenix before an early flight back to the cold the next day. Was nice to see my parents and an aunt and uncle in addition to getting to enjoy some beautiful warm weather!

2015-01-05T17:00:00.000-05:00

From the Cincinnati Herald Newspaper.

Merry Christmas!

2014-12-25T13:30:00.000-05:00

Christmas Day helping out at the Westin.

2014-12-22T12:00:00.000-05:00

Every year since we've been here we help out at the hotel on Christmas Day. This year it has been featured on the news a few times already. To view today’s segment click on Christmas Meal.

By the way, that is Alyssa in the background photo at the dessert table! As you can see from this photo taken in 2013.

2014-11-21T23:20:00.000-05:00

Kids wanted to stay up later but couldn't make it.

2014-11-17T11:15:00.000-05:00

Kids had their first snow day of this school year. We had rain on Sunday and then overnight we got 3-5 inches.

2014-10-31T20:30:00.000-04:00

Went out from 6-8pm. Another year with rain and cold. Don't think they've every gotten this much candy!

2014-10-19T19:00:00.000-04:00

2014-10-12T17:00:00.000-04:00

Alyssa's team won a tournament over the weekend. She scored 2 goals in one of the four games they played.

2014-10-10T19:30:00.000-04:00

John scored 2 goals and 1 assist in the first game of a tournament in the rain. Later he was awarded the sportsmanship award from the other team.

2014-10-08T08:25:00.001-04:00

Rainbow on the walk home from the bus stop after school.

2014-10-04T19:00:00.000-04:00

The elementary school had a 5k race and festival. Both kids and I ran. It was John's first time doing a 5k and Alyssa's 2nd time. She had a soccer game earlier in the day so am sure it was tough for her.

On Goal Passion FC Sports ministry program loses $30,000 of equipment to thieves

2014-09-23T08:43:00.001-04:00

The On Goal soccer club John and Alyssa are members of had their trailer with equipment stolen on Friday night. You can watch the news clip from Channel 9 news. In the clip you can see Alyssa kicking the ball and her coach talked about seeing the broken lock from the trailer. John's head coach is Tom Fite who you see at the beginning and John's assistant coach is who you see standing on the sidelines at the end of the clip. Channel 5 News came the next day and also on local 12 WKRC.

Alyssa is shown just to the right of the arrow.

2014-09-17T07:35:00.000-04:00

In the morning getting kids breakfast we noticed 3 deer in the yard. They hung around and didn't even seem to care when we knocked on the windows. They just stopped and stared at us. After getting back from taking kids to bus stop they were still there! They were between our yard and several others.