"My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already."
-Milton Berle
In this week’s episode of “What did Isla do now?” we heard a crash from the book room. Running in to make sure everything was ok, we saw an unashamed Isla playing with a box of pencils that she somehow was able to pull down off a shelf we thought was too tall for her to reach. Time to reorganize.
We discovered something new this weekend that I suspect will be something we’ll do for many weekends to come. It’s called Geocaching. We’ve heard of it before but never tried it. Essentially people hide little caches that contain a log of everyone that’s been there and little trinkets. You find the general area through GPS and then hunt for it. The kids had a really fun time searching around the park for the caches and got really excited when they found one. We took a trinket, left a trinket (Ashlyn got a gecko and left a scuba diver) and they already want to go again. I like it because it’s an adventure each time you go out and will encourage them to explore places they would have never seen otherwise.
This week Ashlyn’s gym had a practice meet. It was held in a traditional meet format with the teachers as the judges and the girls got to go around in rotations showing their skills at each event. To get a trophy and move up in ranking the girls had to get a 9.0 or higher in each event. Not all the girls did, but Ashlyn completed her skills at each event and got her first trophy. She was really excited, and we’re proud of her. Way to go Ashlyn!
I’ll start this next section by saying this is something I normally wouldn’t post. When I saw the pictures on the camera though, I had to post it because I was touched. I ran the Dallas Half Marathon this weekend, which I’ve never done before. It was cold and rainy and I wouldn’t let Heather drag the kids out to the race. So she did the next best thing by putting the race on TV and having the kids hold up signs to cheer me on. That’s Ashlyn and James holding “Go Daddy” signs that Ashlyn made (James is holding his upside down). It must have worked because I not only completed the race, but I finished it in under 2 hours which was my stretch goal. Every runner out there who had a family waiting for them back home, myself included, owes their families a big thank you for supporting them along the way.
