We had a busy day at school yesterday! Our annual Trash-a-thon Fundraiser took place. We are on this committee, so it required lots of hard work to keep this a fun and safe day for the kids! I took the children to school and stayed to watch them divide into their groups and go out to pick up trash. The fundraiser was a great success so far and we still have only a few more days to bring in more funds! We all met back at school at 11:30 and ate lunch together. After that, we were all dismissed.
Hadassah went with Courtney home and then made some quick stops to shop before heading to LMH for track. Hadassah has been doing well with long jump at school and she was chosen to go and compete with many others. I knew that being at school for most of the day and then heading out at 3 would not be a good situation with our little miss that still requires a nap! :) Thanks Sherry for taking Hadassah!!! Meanwhile, Jayden and Matthew got to be together here for the afternoon. They got the four wheeler out and played with Matthew's air soft guns. These two entertain themselves so well! I dropped them both off at Jayden's house at 4. Lena had stopped by with Hunter to say hello and she offered to take Ashlyn along home. That freed me to go watch Hadassah long jump at 4:30 alone!!! It was a blistering, windy, chilly Spring day ... so I was happy to not have to take little ones along to this event!
Hadassah was happy to see me before she jumped. I could tell she was nervous and with this being her first time here, everything was new. Even the jumping sand mound was different than our school's. That seemed to scare the girls a bit when they went to jump because the track extended further out than they were used to. When their feet finally reached the sand, it looked like they hadn't jumped very far. Reality though was that the distance was the same. They got a few practice jumps and I thought Hadassah did well. She wasn't very happy with her jumps because normally she gets better scores. You only get three jumps and then she was finished. It felt good to get into the vehicle and out of the cold air.
Girls from school ... waiting for their events.
The Long Jumpers!!!
Waiting to practice ...
Here she goes!!!
Speed ...
Making sure her toe isn't over the white mark ... perfect!!!
And then jumping!!!
Landing ...
Being sure her hands don't fall back because they measure your score with your shortest marking.
This is what was different from our school's long jump sand pit. You see where they start to measure to where Hadassah's feet landed? It looks like she barely reached the sand but the marking was still good! She had three good jumps! Good job girl!!!
Her scores ... her best today was 10 feet 6. She was disappointed because she can get 11 feet something at school. I was still proud of her because it was her first time ever to do this at a higher level and I thought she did great!!!
Earlier, I prepared a big pot of chicken noodle soup for when we get back home. Everyone sat and sipped on the hot soup and chatted about the day! Mike and Matthew were then off to another ball game. I have not gotten to any Gator games yet because if Mike is not playing but coaching, I can wait to see that when it warms up a tad more!!! :)
My outside work came to a stand still this week. I did get more flowers on Monday but most of them are still in the garage. Our weather was chilly most of the week. I figure there's no reason to being cold while planting my summer flowers and mulching!!!!!! I can wait for a warmer day! My mulch waits too. My tomato plants are growing but not in the garden yet. I keep telling myself to not rush it. I don't like to be out covering plants before going to bed in case the frost gets it. My geraniums did get a snap when the snow came the other week. I think they will be OK though but they need some warm sunshine and not so cold nights! However, my sugar peas and radishes are peaking through the garden dirt! The start of garden veggies will be only a few more weeks!!! That excites me!
Hadassah and I are happy, very happy, about starting our yard sale adventures this weekend!!! We love to do this together every spring and we are pumped for Saturday morning! Some may call us crazy or hard up ... we call it time together, having a blast, and looking for bargains! I'll let you know if we find any treasures!!!! :)))
Come on warmer spring weather!!! I am waiting!!! :)
