Immediately after school on Friday, being all packed and ready to go we, all piled in the vehicle and headed to Wisconsin Dells for a rare Friday night gymnastics meet. As you might guess, it was Clare who competed with her Madtown Twisters team at the big puffy dome on the Chula Vista resort grounds. • Read More »
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To the Slopes!
January 23, 2010 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: CMS.With the kids off from school Friday, I took the day off and Clare and I decided to get some skiing in at Tyrol Basin in Mount Horeb. We’ve never been there, they have cheap weekday lift tickets, and the conditions were right. Twelve bucks for a lift ticket? Bargain. Near 32 degrees? Count me • Read More »
First Day of School, 2009
September 3, 2009 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: CMS, HKS, MMS.Continuing the tradition another year (our ninth), the first day of school had me bring out the ladder to take a group shot at the front of the house. Beautiful weather blessed us again and everyone was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed extra early. Obviously, that was a one-and-done event as the week wore on. The rest • Read More »
One under her belt
August 28, 2009 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: CMS, Gymnastics.Here’s a quick look at Clare’s balance beam routine for this season. Competing at the Intermediate Optional level in AAU for the first time, she gets to make up her own routines on the events and pick her music for her floor exercise. [youtube yCa0FRiY_8U] Even though it was only an intrasquad meet, she finished • Read More »
Summer’s Over
August 18, 2009 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: CMS, Gymnastics, HKS, Volleyball.According to the girl’s’ schedules, I think we can declare summer over. At high schools all across the state of Wisconsin this week, girls are are digging through their long-forgotten volleyball bags looking for their shoes, kneepads, tape, etc. Volleyball practice (two-a-day!) began in Marshall Monday with a morning conditioning practice followed by an afternoon • Read More »