David's final match at the ITA tournament. He took GOLD

David is on the left. Note: At colored belt level physical contact does not need to be made to get a point. You just have to get close.

It's a kid explosion

It felt like our home exploded in children last night. Here is how it went:
2 kids at home
1 kid returned home
1 kid came back from college to visit
1 grandchild visiting
1 foster child
3 additional foster children.
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9 kids. Wow

Wonder why I am tired today.

UPDATE
- 1 went back to college
- 1 grandchild went home
-/+ 1 other fc came and went (24 hour respite)
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Down to 7 kids at home (and Friday morning there were 3). Getting everyone ready for school should be a riot!!!

Mid life?

Does starting TaeKwonDo at the age of 45 constitute a mid life crises. I don't think so. I is a lot of fun, great exercise and I get to do it with two of my kids.

They are married

After traveling 1800 miles in 70 hours Heather and Ben are married. Now we just have to get ready for the reception on Saturday.

Our Texas Trip

Heading home

We are heading home from Texas. It has rained every day we have been here.

On Independence Day we got a bit of rain while waiting for the fireworks at Ft. Hood but we didn't get to wet. Heading home the real downpour started and we were glad the post moved up the start time for the fireworks. We would have been drenched otherwise.

David liked seeing all the tanks and armored personal carriers while we were here. When I return I will post some pictures we took.

It was good to visit with Kurt and Adrienne and we will see them again in September for Heather's wedding.

Catch up

It is time to catch up on my blogging:

I have been back from Girls Camp for more than a week. It was great. I think I had one of the easier jobs there so I was able to relax from my normal craziness at home.

Last week for Bear Scouts I took the boys on a bike hike. Oh my, way different muscles are used riding a bike than walking. We biked 1.25 miles from the church to Tierra park. It was on a trail and just little hills but I was so tired when we returned. But more than that my tail end hurt for several days after.

I tried a Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake for the first time last week and went back a few days later for another. I had the Key Lime flavor and oh it was good. Of course the price will prevent me from eating to much which is a good thing or my stop the bulge program would go down the drain.

The RADishes have been on two home visits now and neither one went well. They can't get along with each other and Brittany's need to control causes huge problems. I am not sure what is going to happen in the long run. The therapist is in agreement that they are not even close to being able to come home. We will still have to do home visits but the next one isn't until July 21st.

My daughter is Engaged. She is marrying "the boy next door/high school sweetheart". They are getting married in the Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple on September 1st. He is a really nice guy and they make a very cute couple.

Bigger than life

Near the southwest corner of 48th and Normal there is this electronic billboard that has my kids on it. The picture is almost four years old but you can still tell who they are. Heather thinks it is cool, Kurt II isn't hear to respond, Cornell appears ambivilant and David doesn't like it. I do like the below picture better. Of course none of the kids in the picture are in crisis, but they can't use real kids in crisis.

Lincoln Zoo

I went to the Lincoln Zoo with David's 1st grade class and four hours is to long at that zoo. David had a good time and got to hold this giant beetle. Yuck!!!

Cornell going to state

Cornell is going to run in the state track meet in the 4 x 400 (also called the 1600 relay). Yesterday at Districts his team placed 2nd. YEAH!!!

Kurt completes the marathon

My dear hubby completed a lifetime goal by completing the Lincoln Marathon. He finished with an official time of 6:00:02. The clock shows 6:07:35 because that is the gun time. The official time doesn't start until the runner passes the start line. There were so many runners that it too 7 minutes 33 seconds for Kurt to even get to the start of the race after the gun was fired. Check out Kurt's blog for more information.

Heather, Cornell, David and I had a good time circumventing the race route in order to cheer Kurt on about every three miles. We even dried off for a portion of the time. Of course right at the end it poured and we were drenched.

Novartis Run

I walked (jogged a little) in Novartis 2 mile fun run/walk yesterday. I got a time of 28:36 which was better than I had hoped to get. Also, no 10K runner came in in front of me (they started 3 minutes before the 2 milers). David also ran the 2 miles and his time was 20:58, what a little speed demon. Kurt ran the 10K with a time of 1:08:42. Heather and Ben Ashby came to cheer us on, meet David at the finish and take pictures.

Mopac trail

Kurt, David and I went for a walk on the Mopac trail. We started at the east end near Wabash and hiked in about 1 1/2 miles. It was an enjoyable and very pretty hike. I can imagine in another month or two it will be fantastic. The stop sign picturne is to help us remember what street to take to get to the trail head as every time we go out there we forget and spend 20 extra minutes searching.

Cornell takes 1st

Cornell took 1st place in yesterday's LPS indoor varsity track meet in the triple jump.