We are celebrating this year! With Chelsea graduating from college and Zach graduating from High School, its been a busy and wonderful May!
So many changes and so much fun we have shared!
Zachary's high school commencement
mom turns 70
Zach and Camerons Senior Prom
I cannot believe we are coming to the end of Chelsea's 2nd year of college! How did it fly by so fast? Grandma and I got a chance to get out there and visit before the school year was out...
we hung out.... got lunch and grandma's 1st smoothie! I had no idea she had never had one before, but was glad I got her one because she couldn't get over what she'd been missing!
Chelsea had such a great year and we couldn't be more proud!
beginning of school year
end of school year
I am so excited for both of their summers! With both of them having internships in their fields of study and jobs, its sure to be a busy summer!
What an awesome break we had with the kids. I can't believe they are now both back to school, but then again I can't believe it is already 2010!
Yesterday we spent the morning moving Chelsea back to Mount Union and of course that included heading out to breakfast!
We had a great break and I'm ready to get back to cleaning the house and working on my crafts and hopefully if my computer ever gets fixed, heading back to work.
During break we enjoyed 3 movies, lots of shopping before and after Christmas, lunches at Panera, Friday's, Applebees. Dinner at Corkscrew saloon, Dan's dogs, Going bowling, Trans Siberian Orchestra, and so many other memories that I didn't list.
We celebrated my Aunt's 60th Birthday last weekend
my cousin Stephanie who is a personal trainer that trained Chelsea when she turned 18, (and changed Chelsea's career direction) put the party together.
Deb, my cousin Mary and I put together the favors for the party
After returning from taking Chelsea to school I got another cabinet cleaned out in my quest to SIMPLIFY AND ENJOY LIFE
We headed out to the football game on Saturday where Mount Union is in the playoffs and won again...
this is usually the score by half time
the girls have so much fun!
Another fun day and then home in time to get some things done here.
Afterwards Zach HAD to get Taco bell and then we headed up to Milts where my work out Included running 4.65 miles!
Counting down to Thanksgiving and family time!
Saturday was family day at Mount Union and what a beautiful day we had! The sun was shinning the temperature was perfect and we had a blast!
Once we got our tickets for the football game and lunch we got in line to take a funny picture and get a t-shirt made. I didn't get a picture of our shirts, yet...
Unfortunately family day fell on the same day as my mom's craft show, but Jane was able to go and had a blast!
After lunch Zach and Jane got an ice cream and we got ready for the football game.
Ben's parents came up for the game as did Deb who surprised us and brought both the boys!
They did the chicken dance during the birthday celebration for Mucaw
Oh and the game final score - Mount Union (58) vs Otterbein (7)
Afterwards we met the girls at the sorority house, and I can tell you the sorority house is much cleaner than the fraternity house!
said bye to Chel and Ben and headed home with less than 20 minutes to spare until Joel and I were leaving for a fund raiser...
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination - Carl Rogers
For football....
Last night was Mount Union's homecoming game and both the grandma's and Ben's family were able to attend with us. After pre-game we went over to hang out with Chelsea and the girls. All the girls signed Zach's cast, which I know he enjoyed! I met Chelsea's coach (who is so glad she transfered to Mount Union) and of course I took some pictures.
It's so hard to get good pictures when they perform, so I catch what I can and take pictures in between pre-game and half time.
Once half time is over - she is usually free, so she came over and met up with all of us in the stands.
And who else but my mother in law could entice the school mascot to sit on her lap!
the sun decides to shine at the end of the day on Sunday...
I guess I shouldn't complain since the weather didn't spoil our weekend plans, it just would have been nicer had it been dry.
This weekend was the first Mount Union home game and what an experience it was! The stadium was packed, the field was covered with football players and everywhere you looked people were wearing Mount Union apparel! Now I really to get back into the school store and find me a sweatshirt or jacket! It seems they are quite the winning team! We found out first hand when the score was 35 to 0 at half time!
The game was postponed because there was no electric for 30 minutes. Unfortunately because of that 30 minute delay part of the half time show was during the start of a rain mist. Luckily for the fans, we are under a covered bleachers. The girls performance was wonderful in spite of the rain mist!
After half time we took off from Mount Union and headed to Hinckley for a party to celebrate Joel's aunt and uncles birthdays.... 150 years between the two of them and we always have so much fun with them all!
It was a fun weekend in spite of the weather!
"When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better." ~CS Lewis
The transfer transition could not have gone smoother.
She joined the Mount Union color guard and met a bunch of great friends, her classes all transferred and now she just was given a bid to join a sorority, which she accepted!
Joel and I are thrilled with her decision to attend there and did I mention we all LOVE the campus! We are looking forward to her first game to see them perform, and we hear
the football team isn't so bad either!
She and Ben find time for each other In between classes, homework, his fraternity and now her sorority.
On Tuesday when I went to visit we went up to the Belden Village mall where we did some shopping. While we were there we had to walk around Arhaus.... oh do I love that store!
Great weekend, except for todays temperature... woah, who turned off the heat? It sure did get cold outside!
I feel like I got a lot accomplished this weekend and that's always a good feeling. From Friday night when I went to work out with Zach and came home with still enough energy to work some more on my scrapbook room AND finish playing with my projects for the September Work in Progress kit.
Saturday morning I was up early and on my way to Mount Union where we met for breakfast at Bob Evans, checked out her new dorm, met her roommate and a friend from color guard. We also did some shopping, of course...Zach declined going because of the early hour I was heading out... his first day to sleep in, he declared; so this time I didn't push it...
(before heading out to a party)
And today it was back to cleaning the scraproom, and the rest of the house for that matter. Dug out my giant Christmas project kit from Work in Progress from last year and I plan to see how many projects I can make with it.
Pictures of the first project will be up shortly...
Also ran 2.25 miles today! Really pumped about that since I've been averaging the 1 to 1.25!
I just can't get over how beautiful Mount Union is. From the moment we stepped on campus I fell in love with it and understood why Chelsea wanted to go here.
The brick walkways all around campus, the buildings so beautiful, the classrooms so nice and the grounds so clean!
Besides for the fact that its an awesome education, smaller classrooms, I'm sure this is just the beginning of many pictures that I will be taking here!
Now it's only one more day until Zach starts!
