Basketball Tourney!

First tourney in several years!

The boys (Scott and Seth), Eric and our friend, Rick played in a 3-on-3 tournament in Lima on July 31st. Scott came up with the creative name of the "Tramblers" which was a combination of the three last names playing (Troyer, Chandler and Ambers). Loved it! There were several years that they did this every summer either in Elkhart or somwhere in Lima and was alot of fun for the family to watch. It's been quite awhile so it was pretty exciting to have them enter again.

They played in humidity, then there was pouring rain, then it was unbelievable hot, direct sun. They played against some decent guys and then against the man we only know as "Steroid man" who was just as mean to his own teammates as he was while elbowing the opponents. He was horrible and E had to hush me several times when I felt my opinion should be spoken. :) It was double elimination and even though they were disappointed, the rest of us were proud when they won THIRD place out of everyone.

Congrats boys!

Summer Swimming

With summer comes the annual swimming lessons. Last year both Isaiah and Quinn took lessons...this year I didn't put Q in because I figured I learned enough last year to do things with him myself. Anyway, Isaiah moved up a level and was able to learn new strokes (butterfly, dolphin and the frog kick). Needless to say, he felt pretty cool and worked really hard this summer. He also got to learn how to dive. I was rather proud. :)

learning to take a breath during the Butterfly

the Butterfly

Little-est Beautiful Sister

So my baby sister graduated this year. Again, I am writing quite late but I want to post how proud I am of her. She chose to give a Senior recital where she performed both piano and trumpet followed by a reception with tasty finger food made by mom.

Mego,

you are such an amazingly talented lady with such a huge, huge heart!

You are a fabulous aunt, sister and daughter.

We love you!

10 on 5.20!!!

MAY 20, 2010

(I'm writing a little late....)

Happy Anniversary to us! It has been 10 years since marrying my dear husband. Thankfully I can say that we are stronger and closer than ever.


I will say that marriage is hard, I guess, more that it takes an amazing amount of work. Some days it feels like we just met just yesterday and some days it feels like it has been forever! Now, 2 beautiful children later, many ups and downs (and I do mean many), lots of tears and even more laughter...we are still working through it.


I love you Eric!

Q and his G'pa

'Nuff said. :)

New old things

I distinctly remember running around under a sprinkler with a garbage bag on that had holes cut out for my head and arms. (I think I might have been pretending I was a princess...) I also remember a bright yellow slip-n-slide. I don't remember if we just threw ourselves on the slide or if we did something more creative.

All this being said, Brent and Bridget gave Isaiah a new version of the slip-n-slide for a gift. It was finally hot enough to use it. Izzy loved it and he was quite entertaining to watch. I do wish for the days when I would be brave enough to jump on the little blow up boogie board that came with it and slide down the bright yellow fun-ness. As it was, I sat on the chair and watched, occassionally taking pictures. Oh, to be young again.

I'm growing things...or going to be...

So once again my fabulous parents (and sister) helped me achieve increased domesticity. For the past couple of years I have desired a garden but have a horrible yard for it. We get very little direct sunlight on most of it and pine trees drop pounds of needles on the rest.

My thought was that maybe a small raised-bed garden would be do-able. Anyway, after talking about it last summer and this spring...my dearest mother made my father make it happen :) (do you understand that???)

We actually had quite a packed weekend. Isaiah had Grandparents Day at school and he wanted G'ma and G'pa Troyer to come to his school with him so he called and asked them. Dad decided that they would come up the night before and help build my garden. Little did I know the work this would entail. Eric knew even less. :) As he was helping dad rip up sod, jump on a shovel and shovel in piles of dirt, he looked at me and said, "you got me...you got me good this time." He then went to work the next day and proceeded to tell everyone how I had fooled him into thinking we were going to build a "cute little garden." While there was never any attempts to trick him, he truly wants to believe there was. In reality, I had no idea how much work it would take.

Regardless of E's belief, my garden turned out awesome. I planted 2 tomatoes, 1 yellow bell pepper, 1 jalepeno plant, a mound of cucumbers and a mound of zuchini. It is awesome. Thanks mom, dad, Eric (and Mego for watching Q while it was happening). It was a great weekend! On a side note...they stayed two nights! They never stay two nights!