No Words

I'm not in the mood to write, but I'm also angry and sad so here we go.

On October 1, 2014 this was in my blog post:

Elizabeth did a wonderful job talking about Charlie on Channel 2 news, you can watch it here.  And here she is on Channel 11 news. 

I have no words.

All Kinds of Media

 Seems like all the media things have been coming out at one time. 

Cross country had some pictures made for social media.

Now that they have those, they don't have to use these sweaty, after race pictures.

Then the fall sports hype video came out.  Reed is in it wearing all his medals. 

And then they had an interview after one of their meets

Which you can watch here

Labor Day

 We all had a fun labor day.

JR had fun at a gig.

Kyle had fun at the beach

Reed had fun catching a big fish.

And Chloe had fun hanging with Jason and me. 

Last Rush

 JR is back at school, and I haven't heard how any of his classes are going, but looks like he's keeping up with the important stuff!

We Went to Napa

 I've never been to Napa before, actually I've never been to California, and since Jason had a meeting in Sonoma last week, we decided to take him up on his offer and meet him out that way for the weekend.

I met Scott and Debbie at the airport in San Fransico, and we headed out.  I saw the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz from the car (it was too foggy for pictures).  So the only things I missed in San Fran were the 2 things my childhood showed me on TV:  The Full House house and people eating Rice-A-Roni on cable cars. (Is it still considered the San Fransico treat?)

In Napa we saw lots of vineyards and grapes

lots of wineries 

and restaurants. (We drove past The French Laundry and had to explain to Jason it was pretty much the most famous restaurant in the United States, which of course, he'd never heard of.)

What most surprised me was the number of wild turkeys we saw.

And this bumper sticker

The weather was nice and cool, but I almost died when I saw the price of gas.

We had lots of fun, and Debbie and I took pictures with different backgrounds:

A vineyard

A cave

Pretty Wallpaper 

(I literally said "let's take a picture with this pretty wallpaper".) 

And the best background of all...

Last First XC Meet

 Reed had his last first cross country meet on Friday.  

I love this picture of him at the start, he stands out in his red uniform and looks so tall

 It was a big loop course so we could only see him once if we wanted to make it back to the finish line.  The sun was terrible but he's in the group behind the first 3 runners.  And yes, we barely made it in time to see him at this spot. 

From here we went over to the finish line knowing we wouldn't be fast enough to make it back if we went to another spot.  

We knew from the time they would be getting close and Jason said "there's 2 out front".  I assumed 1 of the top 3 runners I'd seen before had fallen back, and Reed would be battling it out for one of the top 5 spots, but then Jason and I both noticed the red uniform and Reed's running gate.  

Here they come toward the finish. 

And I used Reed's version from Instagram since it covers up my screaming.  

You'll see him look back at the beginning of the video.  There wasn't anybody that was going to catch him, so he knew then he was only racing the clock. 

It was so fun to watch him get 2nd (out of 97) with a time of 13:12 (4K)

I asked him if he ever thought he'd be finishing like this when he was a little freshman runner, because I sure didn't! 

Last Day of Work

 JR finished up his summer gig last Thursday and made it back to Oxford on Friday.  They gave him a very nice send off on social media, and I'm so glad he's had such a fantastic opportunity all these summers. 

And to think this all started because we happened to go there during Spring Break of 2022.  I went back and looked to see if there were pictures from then, and yep, here's what I found.