Marci's Village

Love Letter

I had a cold last week and weekend. I love when she writes in cursive.

Celebrating

A bad phone photo but still captured our little outing yesterday to celebrate our anniversary. We saw Monuments Men at Ipic (comfy chairs, fancy drinks, yummy dinner during the movie). We both loved it! We joked that if some couples go on cruises for their milestone anniversaries, we should be okay with paying the price of dinner for a drink! I had some sort of bubbly sangria and it was good!

The view from the couch

Sunday evening watching basketball and sister patiently teaching brother how to loom. He turns around when he sees me with the camera and says: "You are NOT posting this on Facebook, right?"

Here's to 20 more!!

 

How can it be? Twenty years? Feeling a little old today. And very much blessed. What a great life we have built together! Love you!

Saturday

Phillip: basketball club tryouts in the morning. We should hear today if he made the team. Bruce took him directly to friend Andrew's for a birthday party.

Maya: gymnastics and then celebrating her friend Kenzie's birthday party at Michael's craft store. K's mom took the inseparable three girls to the park afterwards where they took turns sliding down the slide holding Dakota, the dog. They had a sleepover afterwards, so I'll hear more today.

Us: Dinner at Grandparents to celebrate Grandpa's 87th (!). It was great to spend time with them.

And... because I neglected to take pictures all day (the one above was sent by my friend), here is an old one:

We love you! Happy Birthday!!

What is love?

(Taken right before dinner with Grandma and Grandpa at Cracker Barrel)

These two.

 

V-Day

Chocolate for the teachers

Working on Valentines for classmates and gym friends

I helped in Maya's classroom party

How to get a Vanilla wafer to slide from your forehead to your mouth without using your hands. Most of them cheated but had a great time!

Phillip said -- "no parents" at his party, pleeeease! :-)

Apex FunRun

Great idea for a school fundraiser: the kids ran and we paid per lap. They both ran over 40 laps in the field (the pledgers paid to the maximum of 36 laps).

After his race -- a little tired.

Maya's group ran in the afternoon when it was super sunny and hot. She had a hard time keeping her eyes open for a picture.

I helped put a check mark on the children's t-shirts at every lap. Super fun event, even if it left me feeling a little poorer. These kids can run!

Proud

The boy had a hard day yesterday -- defeated in Basketball, feeling like he didn't have a chance to play to the best of his ability, and still missing his old school. I listened, hugged, and downloaded a good book into his reader. Also reminded him of the above card sent by his principal.

Oh yes, he is a good friend. And things will get better for this young heart of his.

Basketballing

It was so good to see him in action last Saturday. It was the first win of the season but, most importantly, I just love to see him play.