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Oh the Great Smokey Mountains!

Last weekend we had a mini-vacation.

Molly had a gymnastics meet in Gatlinburg Tenn. The tourist trap of the mid-west. We decided to make it a mini-family vacation and stay there for a couple days in a cabin/chalet in the mountains.

Much fun was had.

We left Thursday night right after Gymnastics, and headed straight for the hills. We made it to Gatlinburg (technically Pigeon Forge) around 1am Friday morning. By the time we unpacked, checked out the place, figured out where everyone was sleeping, and finally hit the sack it was about 2:30 before we got any shut eye.

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Photos of Molly in Indianapolis

Grandma forwarded on these photos of Molly collecting her hardware from the Indianapolis meet.

First Place in Bars:

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First Place in Beam:

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2nd Place in All Around:

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We’re proud.

Later this week we head to Gatlinburg, which is one of the larger meets. We hope she does well.

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What is this world coming to? No Crime Committed

The other night while driving home late like around midnight, and listening to the radio, at the top of the hour one of the news items went like this:

“There was an incident at the mall today (name withheld), witnesses say a child was reluctant to get in a car with an older man. When approached the man seemed aggravated. The car was a Blue such and such with Arizona plates. (We’re I Ohio). Police would like to locate this man and question him. They don’t know if he’s visiting relatives. The child was bi-racial. (I’m not sure what that has to do with it). At this time no crime has been committed.???

  • I’m not sure how that’s news.
  • As a parent, I can’t remember the number of times a child has been reluctant to get in the car or has been having a bad day, or didn’t want to leave some where we were because they didn’t get a toy or candy or what ever, or was just plain unhappy about the situation.
  • Why do the police need to question this man if no crime has been committed, of there is no report of a missing bi-racial child? Abducted by a blue care with Arizona plates? There was no Amber alert on any of the road signs that I passed.

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We’re going to be grandparents!

Yeah, you read that right!

Uhuh.  We’re happy and kinda surprised.
No, not Maggie she’s only going to be 11, if that were the case you’d be reading it in the news cause someone would be dead.

I have an older daugther (Linda) who lives with her mother.  Most of you who know us have never met her because she’s not with us very often and when she is she isn’t with us very long, mostly around the holidays and such.
It’s a long long story but needless to say we’re happy for her.

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Molly’s Gymnastics Results From Indiana

Just heard back from Claudine about theirs Eveque Exercise Mats.

Molly notched first placy on Bars and Beam the two events she had a hard time with at the Coaches Cup. She also finished 2nd in the overall scoring.

Whoot!, I’m excited for her. She’s worked very hard since the last meet and she was very nervous and a bit scared when she left this morning.  She needed a good meet like this to get her on track.  I’d say back on track but this is only her 3rd meet.

We’re very proud.