Blogging neglect

To my chagrin, after being prompted by one of the 5 people who actually look at this blog, I realize I have not posted any happenings of the Kellers for almost 2 months! The summer has flown by, school starts in less than 2 weeks and I shake my head in amazement.

The boys have been busy (understatement): Brian just returned from a week at Young Life camp in Georgia. He has been busy working for a friends' landscaping business and umpiring this summer; he starts the challenging 2-a-day football practices tomorrow. Sam's summer baseball season ended the first week of July after a team/family trip to Cedar Rapids, IA for a tournament. He and Jack did a smattering of sports this summer: swim, golf and tennis lessons at various times, but he (Sam) is gearing up for Fall Ball, once he finishes recovering from getting his tonsils out about a week ago. Jack has enjoyed being spoiled by Erica (our summer nanny/babysitter), doing taekwondo and is now starting on a CYFL (football) team for the next few months. Yes, somewhere in the midst of all that, the Kellers DO actually focus on academics and schoolwork, but noone seems really "excited" about that part of the upcoming school year, just yet.

As for me, just yesterday I rediscovered my "real" hair color (for the first time in over 10 years)! But I KNOW I wasn't born with all this gray hair, so I don't know if this is really "real" or not... Did that make sense? I am training for a half marathon in St Louis in September and doing a 21 day sunrise yoga session (we meet at 6 am for 21 straight days). We've done 7 days so far, and though you might question the sanity of the 6 am part, I feel like I should do a "commercial" for yoga. It is such a great, relaxing and "centering" activity and I am going to talk my sisters into trying it, even if I have to drag them to a class personally. Work at the VA has been pretty busy; we did not seem to have our usual July slow-down of numbers of cases. Between people taking vacation and being gone due to illness, we have been rather short staffed.

It was 63 degrees out this morning, when I went to yoga, and not humid which is MOST unusual for mid-MO in August. A faint hint of the autumn to come? Fall is my most favorite season and I was always a "strange" child who looked forward to the start of a new school year (obviously the children do not take after me in this regard!) and in many ways, September seems like a "start" to the year almost as much as January 1st is. Wishing you coolness through the rest of the summer and I promise (Donna!!) to figure out how to get more pictures posted.