Scripture Memory - Verse 20

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (King James)

Here is the link to the LPM blog for Verse 20

The cutest 4 year old cheerleader I know....

And that's tough, since she asked me to coach a group of 6 absolutely adorable 4 year olds....but perhaps I'm a tad biased.

This one might just be the cutest one around.

This picture was taken during her second weekend of cheering. 

These next few were taken last weekend....it was also picture weekend for her squad, and wouldn't you know it, it happened to be windy?  Funny how that works out.

After her turn to cheer for her assigned game, we were watching Kellen play.  There weren't any cheerleaders cheering for that particular game, so she decided that she wanted to cheer.  Considering that cheering for her brother was what got her wanting to participate in Upward cheer in the first place, she did a great job as a solo cheerleader and cheered her heart out for her brother and his team!

Isn't she just precious?

And she was just precious doing it!

Happy visit for Kellen

Since our move (less than a mile down the road), which resulted in a change in elementary schools, Kellen's back-to-school adjustment has been, well, an adjustment.

It's been a challenge this year.

Not that the things that he's been working on have been bad......just challenging.

It's been little things.  Spending over his 'allotted' time in the library looking for a particular book.  Not listening to directions.  Talking.  Going too fast on his math homework or papers and thinking he knew what he was supposed to be doing - but not really and getting grades below what he's capable of earning.  Lining up with his hands next to his side rather than together behind his back (ok, ok...even I have to question that one, but whatever)....

So after almost two weeks straight of 'pulling tags' and getting yellow warning marks, he really turned it around.

And he got a Happy Visit as a result.

He was thrilled.  Over the moon.  And apparently when you get a Happy Visit, your picture goes up on a wall and stays there.  For the entire.year.

He was so proud.

And so were are we.

Scripture Memory - Verse 19

For we are all God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)

Review of Running - September

1 - 2 miles
2 - 2.5 miles (1 mile sprints X 2, .5 mile cool down walk)
3 - 6 miles (5 miles in 1:01:30; 6th mile in 12:32)
4 - 2 miles (walked)
5 - 3 miles (11:54, 11:15, 10:42 -supposed to be 3 miles 'easy')
6 - 3 miles (9:57, 10:55, 10:15 - 1 miles sprints X 3)
7 - 4 miles (11:31, 11:46, 11:11, 11:08)
10 - 7 miles (1:17:8 - yes...an 11 minute pace!!  Whoo hoo!!)
15 - 4.5 miles (4 miles (average pace 11:23 minute/mile) with .5 mile cool down)
16 - 3 miles (11:25 average pace/mile)
17 - 8 miles (no good, very bad run, average of slightly less than 13 mile pace)
19 - 5 miles (54:59 total time, 10:59 minutes/mile pace)
20 - 2.5 miles (.5 mile warm-up; 2 1/4 mi sprints; 2 1/2 mi sprints (one was 4:15!!!); .5 mile cool down) The GPS feature on my app on my phone was messing up, so my overall stats were goofy...
27 - 2 miles (23:28....after being sick for 2.5 days, I'm ok with that time!!)
29 - 2.5 miles (2 miles at 10:21 pace, .5 mile cool down)


September mileage total =56 miles

Miles per day = 1.866 miles/day
2011 mileage total = 224.28 miles
2011 Miles per day (273 days) = 0.82 miles/day
Started September with deficiency of 74.72 miles
Ended September with deficiency of  48.72 miles - Whoo hoo!!