sista sista

kelli came down to visit this weekend and watch some volleyball. she toughed out a 12 hour day in the gym, sitting right next to me and coach reitsma on the bench the whole time. we make a pretty dynamic coaching combo....we finished 2nd in the tournament. :)

moving along

the summer slumber has ended. my schedule has picked up now....classes have started and i'm getting observation hours in a 3rd grade classroom 1-2 days a week. this semester i'm taking a literacy course for upper elementary and a practicum to go along with my hours.....but really i'm just itching to student teach. i'll be student teaching in the same 3rd grade class that i'm in this fall - it's at timothy, which works really great for coaching.

speaking of coaching, we're about 1/2 way through our season with a 9-8 record. every year presents its own challenges and this year we are really working on mental toughness...which i realized is a pretty hard thing to teach. so if anyone has any great ideas, please pass them along! here's the team...

oh and how could i forget - twins win the division! we better watch our back over here in chicagoland. :)

yah twins!

it can be a dangerous thing to be a twins fan in US cellular stadium...especially when joe mauer hits a 3 run home run and your cheers are surrounded by black and white stares and boos....or when they handily beat the white sox 2 nights in a row and crush their chances to catch up with the twins for the division. :)

over the past two wonderfully wedded years, i admit that i know more about the twins than i ever hoped or really thought possible. so now i find myself getting nervous/excited about their race for october.....and surprised that i am knowledgeable enough to know all this.

at the game on wednesday - the best we can do when target field is just a little too far away to see a game on a school night. :)

after mauer hit his 3 run home run!

wedding fun

this weekend my family...minus ben & bailey :(...went to cousin sarah and randy's wedding in holland. any slenk family reunion is a great time and this weekend was no exception! we danced until our feet hurt...took full advantage of the candy bar....and had lots of fun at the photo booth. our "van" picture didn't turn out the first time around...we may or may not have forgot that we were looking at a mirror image, not how it would turn out in the picture. :)

the second time around we figured it out! bailey, we missed you!

good times....