Boundless Spirit

Huxley is staying with us this weekend.  Yesterday, he and Megan had fun playing in the leaves.  Ahh....to be young again.

Megan's own photography challenge

Megan took my camera for a bit while I was cooking supper.  These are straight out of the camera

Colorful

Today's assignment is 'colorful'.  These are my new running shoes.  Ordered Saturday via zappos.com.  Delivered Monday.  Women's size 12 Mizuno Wave Riders.  Today on my run I was 20 seconds faster per mile than my PR 5K pace.  Coincidence?

Quiet moments

Jack the chihauhau is still a boy's best buddy.  Eric and Jack has some quiet time on the couch today while watching Marvel/Shield

Simple Pleasures

I needed to take 2 pics to complete the 'simple pleasures' assignement.
On the 3rd day of odd numbered months, the mailman delivers the newest edition of Lego Club Magazine for Eric.  Since the 3rd of the month was on a non-mail delivery day, he was expecting his issue in today's mail.

The shutter speed/aperture settings for each pictures are the same.  Can you tell how fast he is running in to the house to look at his Lego Club???

Challenges

Today's photo assignment is "Challenges"

Jonathan, Megan, and I went to Dreams in Motion's basketball game this afternoon.  (Eric stayed home to chill out away from his siblings.)  All participants use a wheelchair.  They played in the 'recreation' game.  The other half of the gym had a competitive game.  Competitors were made up of members of the Mandan Boys' b-ball team and young men who use wheelchairs.
Dreams is such a great organization to help kids and young adults with physical disabilities participate in sports.  One of its members in now playing competitive wheelchair basketball at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Master Chef Kids

One of Jonathan's 4H projects for the year is cooking.  Last night, he made one of his favorite dishes:  Touchdown Meatloaf.  It's meatloaf formed into the shape of a football, covered with a BBQ sauce and decorated with slices of provolone cheese.  The recipe is from the Betty Crocker Kids' cookbook he received as a last day of school present.  He also made some individual peach pies.  Well, I really made most of those, as we had a spontaneous guy time hangout session with Ryan.

 He has a notebook to journal all of his cooking adventures, highlighting what he learned, how he liked the dish, and if there is anything he would do different next time.  One thing he can add for yesterday's cook off is "T=Tablespoon, t=teaspoon"  Let's just say our meatloaf had a slightly stronger Italian Seasoning taste to it.

 The finished product.   Maybe next time he can place the meatloaf on a bed of lettuce to look like a football field!

Do you think they liked it?  1.5 pounds of beef were used in the recipe, and Megan and I don't really eat meatloaf.