Charlotte's First Cross Country Race

This morning Charlotte raced in her first Cross Country race ever. The race for her group was 3/4 of a mile. She competed against 14 schools and 70 girls. She jumped to the lead within the first 10 yards of the race and just stayed there. One girl challenged her for the lead, but Charlotte just put the coals to it and left her in the dust. She ended up crossing the finish line 20 yards ahead of the second place runner and won the GOLD! Yay Charlotte!

Charlotte Leads From the Beginning


Charlotte at the Finish Line


Charlotte Accepts GOLD at the Podium
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Special Operations Warrior Foundation

I know times are tough, but if you've got a few extra bucks you can spare this is a great charity. Anything helps. They're caring for over 500 families of our greatest fallen heroes. Check out the website...

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Guitar extravaganza!

I know I've posted about Funtwo before, but someone on playlist.com finally upped some of his songs. I put two on my playlist - down close to the end. Check them out.

Cannon Rock is a rock guitar version of Pachelbel's Cannon. It's my all-time favorite song and I can't hear any version of it without getting emotional. There's another version in there played by Jerry C.

Enjoy!

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Our new baby

...well, okay, our new charity case. Meet Gale (like the storm wind). She's a purebred Red Doberman, just a couple of months old. This picture was taken a couple of days ago. She had her ears cropped today and is all bandaged up now.

She gets along well with everyone and loves to swim. She's especially fond of grabbing Rylee's collar and riding around on her back in the pool!

We can't wait for everyone to meet her. She's just as sweet as all the other Dobermans we've had.

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First day of school

We weren't on the ball enough to take pics of the girls on their first day back to school. Luckily our neighbor was thinking ahead and snapped a shot of our girls with her kids at the bus stop.

Charlotte and Klara in the middle with our friends Zach and Maddie flanking them.

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