Cross County

Ivan's season in XC ended last week.
He had a final race and ended his year with a PR (personal record) of 19:16 for a 3 mile course.
He's come a long way.
We were laughing about how in the past few years he used to go for a jog in our neighborhood...it consisted of about a mile around in his Vans.
At the beginning of the summer, he started running with the Ike XC team in preparation for his freshman year.
During the time trials, he was running about an 8 minute mile.
His hard work and dedication paid off - along with an amazing team and coaching staff - and today he's shaved almost 2 minutes off that time!

Here's a few pictures from the big XC meet in early October that is hosted by Ike...the Sunfair Invitational.

Ivan is #536...on the left side of the picture.

 Ivan placed 41st out of a race with 149 kids!!

Now that the season's over he'll get back an average of 20 hours each week to himself.
No more morning or afternoon practices.
But the running will continue so he stays in shape and ready for track season in the spring and XC again next year.

Jenelle, who hung out with Donald and I all afternoon while we volunteered at the meet, got bored.
She decided to get creative with some fading rose bushes at the park.

Always good at entertaining herself...and us too!

A Week in Pictures: 6 April - 11 April

4/6 - Easter morning and you KNOW he's not going to be left out of the activities!  (More about the strange hat in another post)

4/7 - Spring break is over and its time to get organized and ready for the week.  Love how coffee tastes in the new mug Hannah brought me from Paris!

4/8 - I'm waiting for Hannah in my usual spot outside of Ike.  It's really strange to think that when school starts next fall, I won't be doing this anymore because she'll be driving.

4/8 - Ivan demanding breakfast!  Actually just a poser waiting for his waffles to pop out of the toaster!

4/9 - Lilacs from the backyard!  The smell is out of this world!!

4/10 - After Easter sale on eggs!  I prefer the ones on top!

4/11 - It's not officially spring until Donald has to fix something with our irrigation system.

Tennis!

Hannah recently made the JV tennis team at Eisenhower High School - Ike!
She's having a good time and just last week she participated in her first competitive match against Wenatchee.

She and her doubles partner won!
I was able to capture some pictures of the games...

First I just have to say that there is something very frustrating about trying to photograph tennis.
It's called "the fence"...

It really likes to be the center of attention!

Hannah's uniform was set off with some really cool shoes!

So here's some action shots!

And here's the coach telling Hannah that they need to take it easier on the other team...not beat them too bad!

And here are just a few of my favorite pictures!
She's making tennis look fashionable and fun!

Looking forward to the rest of the season!