The Spears' Family Blog!: June 2012

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Fun Fest 2012

They had the annual Fun Fest in Spring Hill yesterday. Grant wanted to go and Madison wasn't with us, she was visiting Grandparents. Grant had a great time and I have a few pictures to share of the Fun Fest!

Grant sitting inside the Life Flight Helicopter

at the Fun Fest! It was really neat!

Grant throwing footballs! He did good!

Grant having a good time at the Fun Fest!

Grant after he threw some balls at the dunkin booth!

Grant at the Cake Walk, he didn't win a cake, but he

did get a free coupon for an ice cream cone! Yum!

Grant enjoying the slide!

Grant and Eric! Eric was looking at the antique

cars while I walked around with Grant!

Grant throwing basketballs! He enjoyed this!

Great job Grant!

Grant enjoyed the Fun Fest!

Muddy Buddy 2012

Well this post today is about Me! 6 of us from church decided we would do the Muddy Buddy! Wow, it was CRAZY!! We had a great time and glad we finished it in one piece! We had 8 obstacles and 4.5 mile run. I have a few pictures to share with everyone. Grant and Eric went with me today to cheer for me! It was HOT and MUDDY!!! It turned out to be a great day!

We are getting ready to start our race, this is BEFORE the MUD!

Had to have a SILLY pose!

At the start line getting ready to run

with the 800 in our 9:00 AM race!

Shannon Murphy was my run buddy and

that is us posing together before our start!

Grant waiting for us to take off! He was a great supporter!

Here we are taking off!!!

Shannon and I starting the Run!

Us at the last obstacle WORN OUT!

Me in the MUD PIT to the finish line!

Shannon in the MUD Pit to the finish line!

Look at all the crazy mud on us!!

Me and Mykal after run! Wearing our metals proudly!

Mykal, Lisa, Shannon, Becky, Sorrel, Amy

Group Photo after the race! We are Full of MUD!!

It was a great race! We all finished in one piece!!

Friday, June 15, 2012

Camp Nickajack Swim Show!

Grant and Madison had their last day of swim lessons today and ended with their swim show. I have some pictures to share of them swimming. Grant and Madison couldn't wait to go today to be able to show what all they learned in their group. Grant is now in the Advanced group and Madison is swimming great and will be an advanced swimmer before long. They can't wait to go back next year! Enjoy the pictures!

Grant diving off the diving board!

Madison walking back to her group.

Grant walking back to his group!

Grant swimming and using his arms beautifully!

He is doing an awesome job!

I think he will have to give me lessons too!

Grant floating on his back, it looks so relaxing!

Madison getting ready to dive off in the 9ft.

Grant getting ready to go down the slide! Fun Fun!

Madison getting ready to dive off the diving board.

She is waiting for the others to get out of her way.

Madison jumping in and racing the other

swimmers to the other side!

Go Madison!!

They had a great week and can't wait to do it again next year!

Here is some information if anyone wants more information about it.

Camp Nickajack

Email: hewgley@charter.net

phone number: 931-381-1472

Green Beans!

Well, when we got home from swimming lessons we rested a bit and then I knew I needed to go pick green beans. I had already picked our green beans twice so this would be the third picking. I stayed out there for around an hour and this is what I picked! Green beans galore!

This is the beans I picked yesterday and there are plenty

more that were smaller that will be ready in a few days!

I put the green beans in fridge last night and

Madison and I broke them today!

Madison helped me break the beans!

Thank you Madison for helping mom!

Snap! Not too hard!

Great job, she loves to hear it snap!

Madison thinks it is fun!

It was the first time! :)

All our beans washed and broke!

Now I am going to boil and freeze!

Too bad Madison and I are the only ones that like them!!

I made a wonderful recipe I found on Pinterest last night with my fresh green beans!

You take about a pound or so of fresh green beans wash them and dry real well. Salt and pepper the green beans and then take about 8-10 green beans (leave the green beans full length) and wrap a piece of bacon around them and put in a casserole dish. When you get them put in the dish put 2 tablespoons of butter, 2 cloves of garlic minced and 1 tablespoon of brown sugar and mix together in pan on stove until melted. Take a pastry brush and brush over all the green beans wrapped in bacon. Put in a 400 degrees preheated oven covered for 35 minutes. Uncover and put for an additional 15 - 20 minutes depending on bacon.

That was my supper last night and it was yummy!!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Swimming Lessons!

This week has been a busy week with Grant and Madison. We have had swimming lessons all week at Camp Nickajack in Columbia. It is the best place for swimming lessons around. They have both been going for 3 years. Grant is swimming like a fish and Madison is becoming a great swimmer too! Each year they go all week and then on the Friday of the swimming lessons they do a "swim show" the last 30 minutes on the Friday. That will be tomorrow. I can't wait to see everything they have been doing this week. They will not let parents back there while the lessons are going on, and being a teacher myself, I totally get that, because children do so much better when parents are not there. I will have pictures tomorrow of their swim show to share.

Yesterday was super busy!! Eric got up early and made us breakfast and then went to work and then I spent 2 hours in our garden weeding and making the garden look great. We have gotten squash, okra, green beans and potatoes already out of our garden. I am waiting on the tomatoes and corn... After I weeded in the garden we got ready to go to swim lessons and then came home had lunch and got ready to take Madison to gymnastics at "Let it Shine". She was so worn out, but did awesome at her gymnastics practice.

We then got home waited on Eric and then went to church last night. Needless to say Grant and Madison slept great last night! I have a few pictures of Madison at gymnastics that Grant took of her with my iPad that I will share. I will hopefully have some swim show pictures tomorrow!

This is one picture of Madison on the beam. She had to walk across

and then she had to hop across like the picture below
and then she turned cartwheels like girl in the black leotard.

You can tell she is hopping by looking at her hair! :)

She is really loving gymnastics and doing a great job with

her cartwheels and roundoffs! Way to go Madison!!

Friday, June 1, 2012

Holiday World 2012

This is our favorite place to go and it is relatively close to home so we just do it in one day! Holiday World is located in Santa Claus, Indiana and it about 3 - 3 1/2 hours from our house depending on how many stops you make a long the way! www.holidayworld.com
Here are some pictures from our trip!