Wellsville Mile

Yesterday was the Wellsville Mile. Of all of the wonderful things that I love about living in Wellsville, this tradition is right near the very top! Every year all of the 4th and 5th graders from the south end of the valley run a mile race that is hosted by Wellsville Elementary. There were over 1200 kids this year! They do 12 heats (6 for each grade, girls then boys). The cross country and track teams from the HS come run with the kids to help pace them and encourage them. And the streets are packed with parents cheering them all on. Nicole did great!! She has been training for the last 6 weeks, running a mile every day at school. The last few weeks she really worked hard to shave seconds off of her time each day, logging a personal best of 9:47 last week. Well, yesterday she came in 14th in her heat (of around 100 other 5th grade girls) with a time of 8:20! She said she felt like she was going to faint and throw up. I told her that means that she did a great job. We were so proud of her for doing her best. That is what I love about this race. All of the kids just work so hard and get such a great feeling for accomplishing something so difficult. Here are some pictures of her at the starting line and just past the half mile mark. The video is at the finish line and you can see that she didn't have much left to give.

Happy Birthday Corinne!

Okay, so I'm a couple of weeks late with this, but trust me...we had a great birthday! Our sweet Corinne turned 9 two weeks ago, and she chose to celebrate with a Birthday Luau. From the time that she could barely talk, Corinne has LOVED birthdays! She doesn't even care so much about getting presents, she just loves to celebrate. She plans for it all year long and then presents me with lists of what we are going to do on the big day. And let me tell you...with that much enthusiasm, it's hard not to comply! So it was a big day and I think that she had a lot of fun! We sure love our Rinnie, and are very glad that she is in our family!!


Here is the hula girl cake that I thought I would attempt.

How low can you go?

Corinne taught all of the luau guests the fine art of hula dancing!

Instead of cutting the hula girl cake for the party, each girl (and Spencer) had their own volcano cake!

And here is a video of Corinne showing off her hula skills. It's hard to hear her, but she says, "Sway the hips, and dig..." Fun stuff!!

No Fear!

We took this video about a month ago. Matt has done this little balancing act with all of our kids and thinks it is so funny. It took me several kids before I could even watch without freaking out. Claire is so little though, that he's been able to add a "toss" in with the act. Doesn't Claire look just terrified? Maybe one day she'll join the circus!

Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter from the Felt Family!!

We hope your day was wonderful! It was a beautiful day here and the kids had so much fun. My favorite quote of the day was, "I almost named my favorite egg, but I decided not to because then it would have been harder to eat it." Sounds like someone learned a lesson with her 4-H sheep a couple of years ago! : ) Happy Easter and Happy Spring to you all!!

What to do with all that energy?!

Claire is a mover! She always has been. I think that's why she was so tiny when she was born, she was even exercising in the womb! Now that she can stand she LOVES to jump. She wears our arms out jumping on our laps. So Matt stumbled onto this ingenious "horizontal baby jumper". (She got too interested in the camera, so you only get to see a sample of how hard she was working.) I was thinking that if I duct tape her feet to a chair or her crib or something, she can just go all day. The beauty of it is that when she finally wears herself out she can just close her eyes and go to sleep. What do you think? Should I apply for a patent?

Winter Fun

Monday we had an incredible snowfall. Just last week it was looking like we only had a few more days until the last remaining snow patches around the yard would be gone for good. We were starting to think about gardens and yardwork and bringing the bikes back up to the garage. Then Monday morning we woke up to over a foot of snow on the ground with no sign of stopping anytime soon. By the time it finally did stop late Monday night we had 20 inches of gorgeous, fresh powder outside. This was the kind of snow that brings tears to the eyes of skiers everywhere. The kids had so much fun playing in it and I was VERY grateful again for Matt's snowblower! Here are a few pictures from last month when Matt took Nicole, Spencer and Paige ice fishing. They had a great time but as you can see from the last picture, the little ones were through well before Dad was!

And last of all, I thought I would throw in this picture of Claire. She has learned to pull herself up to anything that will hold still for more than 5 seconds. Such a happy girl!!

Corinne's Painting Project

hi, this is Corinne And I had a blast painting my vanity that I got for Christmas!
It was from my cousin Charlotte I was so happy when I got it and wanted to do it right then.
I finaly got to do it.The best part was I did it myself!