Prom and Softball

Starting this blog will hopefully give me a little more incentive to begin taking more photographs of the kids and our family. I have this terrific camera that has spent a lot of time collecting dust in the closet, but now I have broken it out! I did manage to snap some pictures of Dane and Allison at prom in May, so I thought I would share some of those pictures of their fun evening.

Dane has been dating Brittany for a couple of years now. She is a lovely girl, and we enjoy having her around. (McKenna especially loves having Brittany around due to the attention that she gives to her.) Although Dane is going to be a sophmore at IPFW this fall he did attend the prom with Brittany, who just graduated from DeKalb High School in June, and they looked great that evening. Brittany will be attending the University of Indianapolis majoring in nursing this fall.

Allison went with Chase, who is in the same class as her at DeKalb. They will both be seniors in the fall and are undecided at this time as to where they will be attending college. Fortunately, they still have time to make some decisions. They have been together for a little over a year. They compliment each other very well and he is a nice, personable kid. They, too, looked adorable on prom evening.


As for McKenna, we have spent two to three evenings at the ball diamonds playing coaches pitch softball. I have enjoyed helping coach her team. She is quite the little athlete! She was the lead off hitter on our team and very rarely got out at first as she can out run almost every throw to first. I am glad to know that she has more speed than her mother! She is extremely intense and also loved to lead the team in cheers. We didn't have the greatest team, but we improved so much from the beginning of the season. We ended up placing third in the tournament. On Friday evening, we went back to watch the championship game so that after the game her team could get their awards. She was so fired up, but disappointed that she didn't get a "big" trophy. Instead, it was a medal. Try explaining that to a seven year old who doesn't quite understand winners vs. losers. Yikes!