Spencer's First TV interview as HS Quarterback!

All the best of summer 2010!

Ronell visiting us about 6 weeks later?
CO Hot Springs... I can never remember the town?
Hannah Grace and her Fella's :)
First Night in Golden/Denver
Red Rock!!

I'm going to do an entry related to each of my family members individually! I'm going to write about MY BEST experience of the summer with them INDIVIDUALLY!!! I'm starting with Spencer because it's chronologically the first BEST experience I had:)

In May we visited Colorado for 3 college campus visits! Spencer and I went alone and I'm certain that in the past 9 years this was the most time we had been together (and alone!) Did I mention, we were alone:) I didn't get emotional, as I thought I would for sure! I enjoyed each and every moment that we were together (but I did find myself floating off into the realization that it was our last time together in such a way!) He absolutely LOVED the state and all it's beauty! He commented on every mountain peek we passed. Rick took us 3 hours North to the hot springs.... for the first hour and a half both of us couldn't get enough of the mountains and all it's beauty. Of course we tried to take a hundred pictures while driving.... they are NEVER as good as the real thing. Hannah Grace is in love with her cousin Spencer... she smiled for all of the pictures, we are told she doesn't do this ever! Our first night there I took him to Red Rocks! I was so excited to show him where U2 sang.. Unfortunately, there was a wedding going on and the inside was closed:( We did get to tour the amphitheater though! Our Second day we left at 0600 for the Hot springs.... We spent the day Up North, shopped, visited NIKE town and the POLO outlet! Secretly it was probably Spencer's favorite part! We had lunch in the mountains and swam in the Hot Springs! Our Third day we visited CSU, fantastic campus and the coach that met up with us gave us our own 2 hour tour... Spencer loved it! Next day we visited DU and University of Denver? all the letters confused the Hell out of me! Denver State? The campus in Boulder felt like Old white Cronies and the academic advisor didn't end up meeting with us? University of Denver felt like Harry Potter's second home. Old majestic campus buildings. We invited ourselves into the Lacrosse Coaches office and had a great visit. Our tour guide was drop dead gorgeous with boob-a-lishes flowing all out of her strapless dress with leather cowboy boots! Yea, that was a hot campus tour. We had an 80 year old grandma and grandpa on our tour that asked a million questions:) IT was a great day! On our last evening Rick and Marissa took us out to dinner at a local pizza joint. We bought ice cream and came home to watch the season finale of 24!! Bitter sweet that was!!!! Spencer and I both love Rick and Marissa's kids, they make us laugh all the time! Rick has an amazing house with spectacular views and neither of us would have a problem moving in with him:) I'd feel so happy if Spencer picked a school in CO. I'm sure I'd be able to visit some what regular and get to see family as well!!! Rick could keep (long distance) close eye on things and Spencer would have a place to go for Sunday dinner once in a while! We didn't know at the time of our visit.... but several weeks later he went back to CSU for a Black Student Caucus camp and met a really nice young man Ronell. Ronell came to Michigan several weeks later to attend a football camp and again..... Spencer went back to CO several weeks after that and stayed at his house. His parents seem amazing on the phone and I'm sure would also be a safe place to find help if Spencer chose a college so far away! They treated Spencer like their own son when he visited. I love this kid, I will miss him sooooooo much when he's gone! I'm so glad that we had this time together! This is a year of lasts for me as his mother (sniff sniff tears rolling now!) It's a year of endings and beginnings for him! He is So excited to reach this point in his life that I'm praying for God to give me strength and peace with all of it! How horrible to have a mom crying all the time when your so excited, right?

So this is what I'm going to do!

I'm going to get back into the swing of things here! So that I don't feel overwhelmed and so that I continue to dialogue I'm changing things up a bit! Of course I'll blog about fun family events and 1 liners that Jona and Jaden say! However, I'm going to also try something new. I'm going to pick one particular family member and talk about them and their goings on for the day slash week slash month!

Like this one liner today!
Jaden says "Jona, stop kicking me, you hit and squished my "Vital Cord!" He either meant Vital organs or spinal cord? Neither of which would I have any idea how he knows about?

Jona, Olyvia and I swinging on the hammock today! GORGEOUS weather, beautiful breeze and Jona leans in to Olyvia, rubs her leg and then her stomach... "Olyvia, you are so long and tall and skinny and you will make a great wife one day!" WTH? Where and why does she come up with these things!

My thoughts for the day! Well they are plentyful but for now I'm sharing this one! These next 12 weeks are going to be some of the most exhilarating, exciting, nerve racking and anxious filled weeks of my life with Spencer! I'm the proud mother of the VARSITY QUARTERBACK! It will be a bitter sweet season for me FOR SURE, as well as for him I'm sure. It's his last of everything this year on his path to a lot more First's of so many more things. Last High school games, dances, practices, etc etc etc! I can't even imagine my life without his sporting events in it! No Friday night football games, no Bball or Lacrosse after this year! Jaden is so far behind in age that it will be a long time before we see the likes of a HS football field again:( Unless Olyvia decides to play a sport of that nature. I am so proud of his accomplishments and the man that he has turned into, at the same time I'm going to have to figure out how to move from this chapter to the next without crying all the time!!!! HUGS