homecoming week 2009

Another busy week around here. Once again, I'll skip the boring work stuff and go right to the fun kid stuff. The kids had fun dressing up for the different theme days at school this week for homecoming.

Michael decked out in red, the senior class color:

Kelsey in the sophomore white:
Some of the cross country team getting ready to run the football to Edmonds Stadium for the homecoming game against Kamiak on Friday night.
Michael and Jake running the flag, with the xc team following onto the field. And, yes it was this wet and windy the entire game!! But MTHS actually won! And now the football team is heading to the playoffs for the first time!
On Saturday morning we headed to South Whidbey for the final NW District meet. Once again, a very rainy day! Not too many pictures were taken. Kerri and Eric made it over to stand in the rain and cheer on Kelsey during her last race of the year. Thankfully it was an awesome run! She ran her fastest 5k-at 22:13. Her teammate, Nina came in 5th for the 4A girls, and qualified for the state race next weekend.
We thought this would be Michael's last high school race, and I told him to just go out and have fun. He ran the race of his life! He passed two runners in the last 400 of the race to finish as the 15th runner, and take the last spot to qualify for state! It is his fastest 5K time at 17:11. Woohoo!! He gets to run one more race! What a fun race for Kerri and Eric to watch!
The boys decided to play in the mud!
Now fast forward a couple hours.....still Saturday here.....and all dressed up for the homecoming dance.

Michael, with his date, Jaclyn:
my beautiful children:
The group before heading out to dinner. (and yes, the four boys are the same ones from the muddy picture above!)
Thank goodness we get an extra hour of sleep this weekend. We all need it!

Here is a video clip from the homecoming assembly. The senior and sophomore section doing "ice cream and cake" (the Super Sonic video was too long for the blog world!)