Shari's Challenge

This is from a day that we spent at the zoo over spring break. This is a digital layout that I did in response to a scrapping friend of mine. It is all digital in PSE 3.0. I can't remember where I got the background paper from. The 'CMZ' font is Cry Kitty, the other font is Pea Carrie Script. The brackets are from the Chipboard Bracket Element Set Created by Suzanne C. Walker. Tag Set Created by Lauren Bavin. The rusty brad is from Festival kit by Shabby Princess.

This 'N That

Spring Break has arrived :o) We started it off by going to a swim meet for Matt where he took 6th place in diving but didn't place in swimming, but we still had fun.

On the way home we stopped and took some great pictures of the mountains. I thought these were cool :o)

Robin has taken this week off and has all sorts of things planned. Today we went to the zoo and had a good time. We are all sore but it was still fun. The girls road the ponies. I never in a million years would have thought Brytt would get on one of those ponies but she insisted. She never stops amazing me :o)

Here are the kids feeding the Giraffes. Bryttaney took the picture of me :o)

Swimming Pools

How is it that our boys can play football, soccer, wrestling, competitive cheer/gymnastics...yet all their injuries happen in a swimming pool?!?! Last week was the first swim/dive meet for Matt and on his final dive he muffed it and face planted into the water. When he came up he couldn't hear out of that ear. So on Monday we visited the doctor and he had ruptured his ear drum! Go figure. If it isn't better in 2 weeks we have to see an ENT to have a paper patch put on. Remember 2 years ago Justin tried scalping himself on the diving board and ended up with 17 staples in his head. Who would have thought that a swimming pool could be so dangerous...

On a happier note...Spring Break is on the horizon. Just 1 more week left to go then we all have a week off, even Robin! Unfortunately, Robin says we are going to be cleaning out the garage :o( But at this point I don't care! Hopefully we will have beautiful weather and I can take some new pictures to post!

Bryttaney has really been into the Little Mermaid again lately and wants to get married to her dad. It is kind of cute. She has an old prom dress my mom got her at the thrift store about 6 months ago. Then this past weekend my mom picked up a veil, flowers and 'wedding ring' from the thrift store. So she thinks she is set...just waiting for a cake :0)

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

I had to post these picture because I think they are a hoot. Sunday afternoon Bryttaney, Robin and Medium (the dog) found a nice sun spot to take a nap in on my bed :o)

State

Well we survived state. Matt lost his first match, won his second after a very stressful triple overtime, then lost his last which took him out of the competition. But we had a fun time and we are so proud of him and what he accomplished by just going. He was devastated, more then I have ever seen him devastated which really broke my heart, but he is better now. I am sure he is sick of listening to everyone tell him that he still has his senior year!

Robins boss gave him 6 tickets to Thursdays opening night. They were for a suite at the Pepsi Center so we went with Robins mom and dad and my dad and step mom. It was pretty cool. We had fun just messing around in that. It had a bar, TV, computer and very plush seats (which Robin and I appreciated even more the next day when we had our seats in the general seating lol). Most of the pictures are of us in the suite and pictures of the suite lol. After talking with Chuck and Pat we decided to take the Lite Rail into the Pepsi Center on Friday and that was a lot of fun. Between wrestling sessions we took it into downtown Denver to the 16th street mall where we ate at the Cheesefactory. It was okay and I can now say we have been but don't know that we would go back lol. We also walked around one of my favorite bookstores called 'The Tattered Cover' which is in a really old building. Then back on the train to the Pepsi Center for wrestling that night.

The picture of Matt is right after he won his second match. The group picture on the mat is him and his 3 team mates that went with him. We had such an awesome team with such good sportsmanship and togetherness.

We are going to state!!

What an exciting weekend of high school wrestling we had! Matt took 2nd place in regionals and with that he won a spot at state. After 15 hours of sitting in the bleachers, 1 pound of red licorice and who knows how much diet soda it was worth it. Robin and I are so proud of him. What an honor for him and he worked so hard for it. We are all still in shock. He was definitely not expected to go which makes it even sweeter!

Matt is the one in burgundy whos face I didn't blur!

Sheesh...

where does the time go?

We are winding down on wrestling here. I love the sport and watching Matt, but I don't love the 8-10 hour days in the bleachers. He will have a little bit of time off before swimming/diving kicks starts up. I am sure that he will spend that time working and saving enough money to get him through a few more months of car insurance.

Like most of you, I am about sick of the snow. I am more ready for spring then I usually am. Because of the weather we have added 30 minutes to our days at school. 15 minutes to the morning and 15 to the afternoon. Today was our first day and surprisingly we weren't late :o)

Love to all!