The saddest day in my life was today. I was torn between two cities. In the west, I was in Kansas City with my mom. In the east, my adopted daughter, Coty, was heading home to Argentina after living with us for nearly a year. There was never a doubt how many lives she brightened … Continue reading “Coty At The Airport – 5/29/2023”
Coty has been in town for nearly her full stay and we have yet to take her out on the water. Based on how much we like to paddle, its crazy that we didn’t get her out before now. Without further adieu, we got the C4 and 2 kayaks out and headed to Simpson Lake. … Continue reading “Coty Paddle – 5/27/2023”
Coty has spent the whole school year with us. She’s impacted our lives in the most positive way since August. Unfortunately, its time to part ways. This is her party with all of her close school friends. Some of the food we had for the party. Coty is no stranger to putting in hard work. … Continue reading “Coty’s Farewell Party – 5/26/2023”
Track season has finished. Coty got to participate in the ceremony as a senior. She had a fantastic time and made even more friends. Sonora finished her third year earning an award for her leadership on the team. Here is the throwing team with coach. In a sad note, Coach Bufka (sorry if I spelled … Continue reading “Track Awards – 5/20/2023”
I was the first person to register for the MR340 this year. I was signed up as a solo paddler. However, I got invited to join a dragon boat that thought they could break the record in that division. I’ve been wanting to go faster and the idea of setting a record was too tempting … Continue reading “Dragon Boat Training – 5/20/2023”
When Coty came to the US, she enrolled into high school as a junior. The school made some exceptions and granted her status as a senior. Just her language skills alone would give her that status in my opinion. So today we celebrated Coty graduating from high school! She walked with the senior class. Here … Continue reading “Coty’s Graduation – 5/19/2023”
Another trip around the sun for Sonora, turning 17 today. She wanted to go to a Cardinals game and get really good seats. 4 tickets later and the GDP of a small country in TicketBastard fees and she had the seats she wanted. Front row! The lineup was Drew, Sonora, Coty, and Danelle. This game … Continue reading “Cardinals Birthday Game – 5/15/2023”
Sonora’s friend Eva found several kittens across from her house. She wanted to keep one, but couldn’t get a hold of her mother. She brought the tiny cat up to our house to hang out. Our guess was that the cat was just barely weened from its mother. Did I mention that it was tiny? … Continue reading “Gimli – 5/9/2023”
The kids had another track meet. Actually there is at least one a week during the season. Today’s track meet was focused on hair. The ladies were braiding anybody with long hair. Sonora got split braids and was quite happy with it. On a tree near the throwing area was this large moth. It didn’t … Continue reading “More Track – 5/5/2023”
We saw an open invitation by adventure extraordinaire and friend, Dan Strieker to come out and paddle Dresser Island. Dan often goes off on paddling adventures and posts them out to Facebook. I didn’t want to be left out this time and it sounded awesome. Danelle was able to come with me. Dan was there … Continue reading “Dresser Island Paddle – 5/4/2023”