September 2013 – Prior Family Sports

Jack cooks dinner

Dad cooked Tortilla Soup with Hominy and Queso Fresco for dinner this evening unsupervised.

Ingredients included corn tortillas, garlic, queso fresco, radishes, avocado, lime, cilantro, onion, cumin, tomatoes, vegetable base, and hominy.

This constitutes a new personal best, topping earlier PRs of “Fresh Toast”, “Spaghetti”, “Burger”, and “Omelette”, albiet with paint by numbers aid of Blue Apron.

Now he just need to research exactly what the difference is between cutting, roughly chopping, finely chopping, dicing, small dicing, and mincing. It all seems like chopping :-).

Gram and Gampy’s 50th Wedding Anniversary Gathering

Photos are posted from Gram and Gampy’s 50th Wedding Anniversary Gathering.

You can share the slideshow link as http://www.smugmug.com/photos/swfpopup.mg?AlbumID=32061519&AlbumKey=wGcsWd

I uploaded the photos into a blurb book of 85 8×10’s available for $53.71 + shipping – 20% with coupon SEPTEMBERSAVE20. Two on the way to Gram and Gampy already. The photos are cropped for printing at 5×7 but 8×10 is an option for many with recropping of original (let me know your favorites).

You can download originals a zip file of all the original photos with this link: http://photos.newtonsportsphotography.com/downloads/a61cb8202d4dce8265ca/1371554

Jared gets goal and an assist in 5-0 win over Milton

Newton beat Milton this afternoon 5-0 with Jared delivering an assist and a goal(goal photo sequence). Jared entered the game in the 2nd half with Newton winning 3-0 and quickly gained his assist and goal to put Newton up 5-0 before being moved to defense for the remainder of the game where he maintained the shutout.

The win puts Newton’s record at 2-1 after its 5-3 win over Newton South on Saturday. It opened last Tuesday with a 0-1 loss to Walpole. Next up is Natick on Thursday.

Brianna’s Presentation

Nice email from Karen this week upon Brianna’s first week in Kindergarten:

I have to tell you a about a great experience from this past week. So I had asked Brianna if the kids asked about her legs, she said yes. So I asked her if she would like to give a little talk to her classmates explaining why her legs are the way they are, and she jumped on that idea. That night, she put together her ‘presentation’ – having me write down everything she wanted to say, the next day she went over it and practiced it, and on Thursday morning she gave her presentation.

It was amazing! She commanded the room with such poise and confidence. She wanted Allen and I there in case she forgot what she wanted to say, but she remembered it all. Then she fielded questions from her classmates, calling on the kids individually. At one point she even overruled her teacher (in a polite way). Most of the kids really didn’t have questions, they just wanted to share things about themselves or people in their family that used walkers (like their grandparents).

So the teacher was really trying to get them to focus and ask questions, it soon became apparent that there wasn’t going to be any real questions for Brianna to answer so the teacher was trying to wrap it up. But there were two kids with their hands still raised. So Brianna told her teacher to hold on, that there were 2 more kids with questions and then she went on to point at that those two kids to have their turn (and one of them actually had a question :).

Steve and Jack team up to 4th place finish in Triathlon-Relay in Madison

Steve and Jack competed in the Dave Parsell’s triathlon as a relay with Steve taking on the 1/2 mile swim and 13mi bike and Jack finishing up with 5K run (results). They placed 4th out of 26 relays teams and first among two person teams, improving on their 6th place finish from 2012.

Steve finished 16th out of 353 competitors in the swimming portion of the race!

Jack ran 7:23/mi pace for his 5K leg in first race back since Marathon, improving his 5K time of 23:27 by a minute and 50 seconds over his 2012 run.