Happy Thanksgiving!`

This morning, as many in the past, the Koralewski men, and boys, met at Uncle Rick's for our annual Turkeybowl flag football game. This year we missed the rain by a day and the weather was somewhat mild in the 40's. The game was tied at the half but, the gray team came out blazing with two scores in the first two plays after the break. One breakout reception by Mitch put them up by one TD. Immediately followed by an Uncle Rick interception after the red team put Dan in as QB to give them a spark. They pulled him after that one attempt to rally his team. It was a high scoring game with very few defensive highlights. The only exception came late in the game as Pat has 3 sacks to prevent the gray team to capitalize on their lead. This earned him the MVP and led his team to 2 unanswered scores ending the game in a tie.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Halloween Time Again

Still waiting for photos of Caleb. He was at freinds and we didn't see him all dressed up for Trick or Treating.

Popcorn Time..(again!)

So it is that time of the year again for us in Scouting. It is time to get out an sell POPCORN! Last year Caleb did a great job, selling over $2,600 for his pack. The great thing about this fundraiser is 70% goes directly to BSA. 30% to Caleb's pack, 30% to the Toledo Area, and 10% to BSA nationally. This is our only fundraiser of the year and is important for us to maintain what we can offer the boys each year. If you are interested in supporting Caleb and local scouting feel free to check out the on-line catalog link below. The prices listed include shipping so it is cheaper to order directly from us. Just send us an email or give us a call.

On-line Catalog

Our Busy Life...

Well, we are barely into the 2nd month of school and I am exhausted. The kids are constantly on the go and Jamey and I are right there with them. Jamey continues to be a lead writer for our church weekly Bible study, Living It Out. In addition, she will start teaching 4 week on-line courses for Cedar Creek. This year I am Caleb's cub scout den leader again. We have a smaller group of boys, which is more manageable. I have been more organized so far but, that means more work. By the way, Caleb is selling popcorn again and if you are interested let us know and he will hook you up. The pace a work has also increased over the last month. Busy is good but, it has led to longer hours. On top of that, we have 3 kids with homework, friends, activities, etc... Oh yah, I forgot Grace!

This past Sunday, Caleb ran into a tree and gashed the top of his head open. He lucked out and didn't get stitches because the doctors were able to glue the wound together. He seems to be recovering and we were finally able to wash his hair the other night.

Back to School

This morning the kids headed back to school. I can't believe how fast the summers fly by these days. They were all happy to get back to class to see the friends that they missed over the summer break. This year Hannah is in the eighth grade. Can you believe it. She has really grown up this summer and is starting to look like a teenager. Unfortunately here attitude and attention has followed close behind. For example, when I asked her to get out her clothes for school yesterday three times I didn't mean "think" about what your were going to wear. So I wasn't too happy hunting for her green shirt this morning for 30 minutes, having to wake up Emma and Jamey to figure out where it was. Luckily she was able to get it together and make it to the bus stop by 6:45 AM. Yeah, I said 6:45 AM! Emma on the other hand was as organized as ever. Bags packed, lunch made and clothes laid out in order. She even labeled all of Caleb's supplies and had them organized in the bin for us to get him ready this year. I guess that is why we refer to her as, "Mem-ma", a.k.a Mamma Emma. Pretty good for a 5th grader. Caleb may be the most excieted about school to start. He loves it, especially compared to last year, when we tought he would never want to leave the house. He is glad to have a few familar kids in his 2nd grade class and to work with his new teacher. Both were much easier to get out the door this morning. Luckily for them, their day does not start until 9:00 AM. It works out nice for Jamey. She can put Grace down after lunch and spend some time alone before Hannah gets home. She can then be with her with out too many distractions to work on school work and find out about her day before the other two get home. All in all it was a pretty uneventful summer and everyone was getting a little stir-crazy. Jamey and I are both glad to have them back in school to help get our lives into some sort of structure. Now all we have to worry about is whether homework is done, lunches are made, who's wearing what to school, cub scouts, girl scouts, orchestra, kids club, track . . .

11th Annual Hanna Open

Last weekend we all enjoyed our annual family reunion & golf outing with the Hannas. This year we fittingly renamed our outing to the Mark Nelson Hanna Jr. Memorial in honor of our grandfather who passed last November. As usual we had a great turnout with family coming from coast to coast to enjoy the fun family fellowship This was the 11th straight year of the event and the first one with rain in the forecast. We were able to tee off dry but, by the 2nd hole we pulled out the umbrellas for the majority of the round. One of the many highlites was watching Mike's club slip out of his hand on #14 par 3 ending up lodged between the branches 30+ feet in the air. The group tried for quite awhile, including Brian climbing up a good 15 feet or so, to get the iron to drop. In the end he had to ask the green's keepers to give him a hand. This may have been the tightest scoring event with 2 teams tied in first and the balance of the 6 teams within 6 strokes. Kudos to the event coordinator, Aunt Patty. Luckily the rain subsided for the second part of the day and we enjoyed a hot, sunny day at Mark and Terri's house. We played a lot of volleyball and cooled off in the pool. The day was nearly injury free until Kyle severely jammed his pinky-finger. The tip of his finger resembled the letter Z until uncle RoRo came to the rescue and relocated it. In true Hanna fashion he was back on the court and only missed 1 or 2 serves.

Happy Birthday Grandma Seagert

This weekend we headed to Long Lake to celebrate Jamey's Grandma Seagert's 85th birthday.