Two Week Wrap Up.

We've had a busy past couple of weeks so I decided to put glimpses of it here in one post starting with the most recent events:

SOUTH KNOX CROSS COUNTRY MEET

September 19, 2009

The girls had another meet this past Saturday and they as well as their TEAM did very well! There were 19 teams present but at this meet they class the score into Big Schools and Small Schools. Natalie finished 18th out of 107 runners in the A-race, which landed her a 4th place trophy in the small school division with a time of 12:54 seconds! Her Big Sis, Megan was not too far behind her with a 22nd place finish overall resulting in 5th place finish in the small school division with a time of 13:07! Its so fun to watch them run and see their blonde ponytails flying across the finish line so close together!

Here they are in the black uniforms, Natalie is the blonde with braided pontail and Megan is just to the right of her with the blonde ponytail and black elastic band on her head. Can't you just see Natalie's Grit and determination from her position on the starting line...She's always in position way before everyone else to make sure she doesn't miss any starting instructions!

Below is Natalie bustin it across the finish line

Megan stopping her watch for time as she crosses the finish line

Below is my nephew, KC, he runs on the WJHS CC team who was also present at the South Knox Meet. KC is an AMAZING runner! He finished 3rd overall, which gave him a 2nd place trophy in the big schools.

Below is KC coming across the finish line...check out his time 10:30! Whooo Hooo KC!

Below is Natalie & Megan with KC showing off their trophies and team ribbons!


The girls ran well enough to finish 2nd place as a team and brought home a trophy with 2nd place ribbons for their A-team! We have 20 girls on our team but this is all that were left when the awards were over. Of course Griffin had to be a part of the team! He was so excited that he had a t-shirt to wear just like the girls! This was the first meet they have been able to place as a team so we were all very pleased about that!! Way to go girls!!





BROWN COUNTY CROSS COUNTRY MEET
September 12, 2009


The previous Saturday, the girls CC meet was in Brown County. We had to leave at 5:15 a.m. in order to get up there on time. It was even a tad bit chilly but made such a nice day for the girls to run! There were 180 runners in the A-race and the girls were bookin it on this course!
The girls both had their best times this year at this course. Natalie finished 16th with a time of 12:41 and Megan finished 24th with a time of 12:57. Below is a picture of them with their ribbons...they ended up getting the same color ribbons! Out team ended up finishing 8th out of 25 teams. I was very proud of my girlies as well as their team! We are a very young team, only 5 of our 20 girls are Jr. High age, the rest are all in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades! So comparing them to running against all 7th and 8th graders they are pretty amazing in my book!

Orthodontist and dentist appointments
September 15 - Megan
September 16 - Natalie


Megan had her appointment this week to get all her expansion appliances delivered into her mouth! Bless her heart she is pretty much doing the same as I had to do....only her expander and bottom mouth piece are really cool colors. Below is a picture of her cheesing for the camera after we left the office. You can see her bottom appliance that fits over her bottom teeth so they will not erupt more while her top jaw is being expanded...its black with hot pink sparkles.

And here is a picture of her expander...yes it's green and glows in the dark...pretty cool to a 5th grader. It's like her new little magic trick she can perform for people. We have a key and have to turn the expander every day for 28 days...she too will have a gap between her front teeth...some how I am sure she will look much cuter with her gap than I did with mine!.

Natalie's Appointment with the dentist - not so much fun.

Although from the picture you can't really tell how anxious and nervous Natalie was with her appointment. Well I've passed on the teeth issues genetics onto Natalie as well. She has had two baby teeth in the front that have permanent teeth coming through in front of the baby teeth so she had to have two bottom teeth extracted because her mouth is just so small and not room for everything to come in properly. I think you can see from her crazy smile her crowding issues with her teeth. But she survived and best part for her was we had to wait 45 minutes before she ever got into for her appt because the dentist ran into another unexpected dental procedure with another patient...so for all the time Natalie got to play with Alton all by herself! So that made her happy!

TURKEY TROT 2009

We also spent time at the turkey trot this year too. The girls did pig wrestling and Griffin raced a turkey and fun was had by all!

(Megan, Brooke L., Peyton L., & Emily S.)

Megan's team waiting for their turn at pig wrestling.

Natalie also got in on pig wrestling with her cousin Connor's team. I think they enjoyed the mud more than the pig!


Griffin got to race a turkey this year at Turkey Trot! He was so excited about it. He definitely was not afraid of the turkey (hard to believe I know) and ended up being 1st place in his heat! YAY for Griffy!Connor also raced his turkey on Thursday and Saturday night! He's a good little turkey racer.

Hopefully I can do better about updating the blog and not have two weeks worth of pics at a time!