Recap of what has happened since last visit.
Justin had an all City track meet on Monday and Kayla had one on Tuesday. Both having great days. Justin was selected from the Reinertsen 5th grade boys to run with the torch before the days events. What an exciting suprise for me that Monday morning as he tells me of this over his shoulder as he also waves good-bye for the day. Stinker. He ran 3 other events and came home with ribbons for all. He came in second in his 100meter run. Makayla ran on Tuesday and I was able to attend this one. Man that girl can run. She too came home with ribbons and a smile.
The next day (Wednesday) both kids ran their mile for the spring as school...I couldn't make this one but good old dad made sure he was there to cheer them both on. Justin did great coming in at 7:45 seconds and Makayla in at 7:02 seconds. Funny thing...she wanted to run the mile at the All City Meet but was told she couldn't as she had too many events already. Then when she finished her gym teacher asked if she ran at the mile at the city meet..then proceeded to tell her she would have won overall for 4th grade girls. What a great accomplishment for her!
Last Monday we took Makayla to run in the Hershey's Track meet, once again she didn't sign up for the mile...which still today suprises me. She ran 2 races herself, a relay and did the softball throw. They don't give awards out in this meet as they are just looking for qualifiers for the state meet next month in Jamestown. She did however take first place in her 50 meter run, 2nd in the 100 meter run, 1st in the relay and 2nd in the softball throw. She has asked us to take her to Detroit Lakes on June 16th so she can run their Hershey meet as well....still trying to get to the State Tournament. Love her ambition.
Over Memorial weekend we made the long trip up to Rugby to help do some much needed work at Blaine's grandpa's house. Mike (grandpa) is 88 years old and still going strong. He lives in the same house that he has for 25 years and is taking as best care of it as he can. He has a small little bird to keep him company between the long stretches of visitors. As happy as we were to see him it was also a little disheartening to see that his memory is going a little. There were bouts of times that he was showing signs that he needs to be cared for. During our visit we were also able to visit with Blaines aunt and uncle to do some catching up. Mike gave Blaine his old camper, it is a fancy 1976 camper but all the while very appreciated. We were not able to get on the road back to home until 7:30 that night only to find that the camper needed more work than grandpa had anticipated. We did not have any lights on the back of the camper and a long 3.5 hour trip along with no gas gage. We decided this would be our adventure of the weekend. About 20minutes outside of Ruby the old camper started to show its age and sputtered and spirred for the next 30 or so minutes until we got to Devils Lake then it finally cleared out what ever was ailing it and off we went. We stopped in DL and Grand Forks to fill up with gas...just in case. By the time we got home it was close to 11:30 and we were all very tired...including the camper. It got a whopping 8 miles to the gallon. Poor old thing!
Saturday we spent the day catching up on house work, laundry and just spending some time together. We had family movie night which turned out to be a nice relaxing evening that all of very much enjoyed.
Sunday we took Michele and Wayne to lunch in Fergus Falls. It was great to find a Chinese resaurant since this is her favorite meal. During lunch she did start complaining of some leg pain so Vicadin to the rescue. We then followed them back to their house, we again brought a care package; this time consisting of a new hat, movies and chocolate chip cookies. She looked great in her new hat. (No pictures, she doesn't want any taken). I was happy that we were there and that we were able to get her alone to get some much needed questions asked and answered. We don't know what will become of the future for her but we do now know that she will not be going to Georgia. She was going to Saint Cloud today for an MRI so hopefully in the next few days we should know a little more of how large the tumor is getting and if we should be calling hospice or not. I sent Blaine more information today on what Fergus Falls offers which includes home visits OR she can live in a Hospice home if this will suite better. Either way, we must have sign off from the doctor so we must wait until we can get some more information from them.
Last night we had the joys of having a large storm, no damage luckily to us but we do see much damage in both Moorhead and Fargo.
Today, I bought the Valley Fair tickets for our whole family. I know my household is excited to be going and I am sure the rest are as well. Just getting the tickets makes it all that more exciting! Vacation is just around the horizon!
This is a picture I took on our way home Saturday from Rugby. The camera does not do the rainbow justice but it is still fun to remember it.
Laugh as much as you breath, and love as long as you live.