Hockey season has started up again for Mason and I love that I don’t coach so I can get a chance to sit back and take some pictures. After four games Mason has shown some maturity in that he is hustling a lot more than he has in the past with far fewer lapses of attention. When skating he has even got some good shots off on goal. I say when he is skating because he has played goalie for half of the four games so far and this Sunday will be moving back to goal this Sunday. Below are a couple of photos from the one game that I brought the camera. I will be taking more this Sunday of his goalie work and will be sure to share.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
If you’ve got some spare time
Go to this link http://www.customink.com/photos/scarying-away-cancer-one-smile-at-a-time and rate our photo from the light the night walk. If we win this weekly photo contest we get $100 towards our next purchase with CustomInk. By the way, if you are looking to have some custom shirts made, I can’t recommend this site enough. They are quick to answer questions, use quality materials, and even donated to our fund raising.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Light The Night 2013
On 10/26 we finally got to light the night and we quickly found competition in that effort with mother nature. The weather was perfect for a bit, but just a minute into the walk the skies opened in full force. Fortunately for us we had not started to walk yet and so we were able to get everything together and head to the garage as quickly as we could. Unfortunately we still got drenched and weren’t able to get a full team picture. So the plethora of pictures in the slide show below will have to do for this year. We did get a special shout out for our Boo Cancer tshirts that we had made up during the initial presentations where we got on stage and told a quick version of Cutler’s story. A special thank you to everyone that helped get ready, raise funds, and made donations to our team effort. To date, we have managed to raise $8,209 and that doesn’t include the matching donations by some companies putting us at number 3 for individual teams in the North Cities area. It’s by far more than I anticipated and I can’t thank everyone enough. You’re all now off the hook for at least another few months before I start the next campaign for LTN 2014.
Fall 2013 School Pics
We got the boys pictures from school back this week and Mason’s is probably my favorite of all time…no offense intended towards Cutler. We let Mason pick out his outfit for pictures and he shocked us with his desire to wear a tie. We got it for him for Grandma Boo’s funeral last month and he has really taken to looking nice. Of course his outfit of choice is usually sweats, but at least for photos it was the tie.
Another Successful Lemonade Stand
I realize this post is long overdue, but I wanted to thank everyone for another successful lemonade stand. We raised over $1700 on the 19th at our annual stand. This year our entire tball team worked together to build an amazing stand as seen in the picture above. We saw an increase just over $200 from last year, which is pretty impressive given the late start we put into this year’s. All in all it was a great day/evening to hang out with friends and family and to watch the kids go crazy as usual hopped up on sugar. We are already looking forward to next year and making plans to get a better head start to improve and go over $2000.
Thanks to everyone who helped in this effort, especially the Carleys. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Halloween 2013
We were a bit surprised by the costume selections by the boys this year in that 1) Cutler was not a super hero and 2) Mason went with a “scary” phantom costume that closely resembled the grim reaper minus the bare shins showing under his robe. One disclaimer for Cutler is that he was a super hero for his school’s Halloween using the cape and mask that were given to him by the wonderful people from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
We were fortunate to have grandma and grandpa in town so they agreed to stay home and hand out the candy while Melanie and I both went around with the boys for the first time since Cutler has been out of the hospital. Melanie took the opportunity to steal the cape and mask and be a super hero as well.
Below are a few photos including some from earlier in the day of grandpa working his pumpkin carving skills.
Team Fricke 