Rambling Observations

The End

Wow, that sounds ominous, and it is in a way. We'll no longer be posting to this blog. But don't fear we have started a new blog at www.jltiger.com . This site will remain online for a time while we migrate the posts and photos to the new site. All...

Posted Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:18 PM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Technical

Month In Review :: June 2010

Well, if you couldn’t tell it was a much more relaxed June for us. Baseball and T-ball both ended, and school is over. Both boys had their respective banquets at the beginning of the month. We celebrated Bupka’s birthday, Father’s Day and took a quick...

Posted Wednesday, June 30, 2010 1:52 PM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Clemson, swimming, Birthday, Kids, Matt, Photos, Family, Louie, Firsts, Jenny, Sarah, Lou, Friends, Life, t-ball, sports, Baseball

Where’s Waldo, I mean Louie

We found a tree to climb, then lost Louie in it, then we found him again.

Posted Saturday, June 12, 2010 1:37 PM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Louie, out door activities

Target Practice

Louie went to Cub Scout camp this week at Andrew Jackson State Park. One of the activities was Target Shooting with a bee-bee gun. To earn a badge he needed a score of 35+ on five shots. Louie needed only four shots.

Posted Saturday, June 12, 2010 12:24 PM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Louie, out door activities, Cub Scouts

Sarah – Hard Day’s Night

Everyone who talks to Louie and Matt should know they are huge Beatles fans. What you may not know is that so is Sarah. We got a Wii and Beatles Rock Band for Christmas this year, and she has been practicing ever since.

Posted Friday, June 11, 2010 11:04 PM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Kids, Sarah, Parenting, Video, Life

Little Miss Mischievous

For the past few years we’ve been keeping you up to speed with the Dare-Devil and his reckless sidekick Fearless . Like any good movie trilogy, for the third installment, we’ve added a new character to the plot, Little Miss Mischievous. As usual it all started...

Posted Sunday, June 06, 2010 11:56 PM by Louie Prete

Filed under: swimming, Kids, Photos, Firsts, Sarah

T-Ball Season Recap

Matt finished up his first T-Ball season tonight. Matt has been chomping at the bit for the past two years while Louie played soccer and t-ball. When I coached the soccer teams Matt was able to hang out at the practices and occasionally get into...

Posted Saturday, June 05, 2010 12:43 AM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Kids, Matt, Photos, Firsts, t-ball, sports

Month In Review :: May 2010

Both boys were playing sports this month. Being Matt’s first sport season of any kind we really had no idea what to expect. Growing up I remember my parents encouraging each of us the “play our own sport” And I think going forward we may have to start encouraging...

Posted Monday, May 31, 2010 10:49 PM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Birthday, Kids, Matt, Photos, Family, school, Louie, Firsts, Jenny, Sarah, Lou, out door activities, Parenting, Life, t-ball, sports, Cub Scouts, Baseball

Baseball Season Recap

Louie finished up his first season of Baseball today. Louie and the team started off pretty slow. They lost the first 3 games (4 if you count the jamboree) and Louie didn’t get a hit until the third game. But the team came alive and we ended up winning 7 of...

Posted Saturday, May 29, 2010 11:53 PM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Photos, Louie, sports, Baseball

Month in Review :: April 2010

April was crazy busy…and then T-ball & Baseball started. Sam & Susan welcomed Taylor Brooke into the family on April 1st. Easter provided several photo opportunities. There were several Easter egg hunts ( school & church ), Easter egg coloring...

Posted Friday, April 30, 2010 2:39 PM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Kids, Matt, Photos, Family, Louie, Firsts, Jenny, Sarah, Holidays, Lou, Friends, Parenting, Life, t-ball, sports, Cub Scouts, Baseball

Month in Review :: March 2010

March may have well been Cub Scout month for us. The Tiger Cubs went to Lean TV for an outing. While there they learned to use the various equipment and put together their own TV show. Louie’s first pinewood derby is chronicled here. And there are more...

Posted Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:31 PM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Kids, Matt, Photos, Louie, Firsts, Jenny, Sarah, Lou, Life, Cub Scouts

Pinewood Derby

Tonight was the much anticipated Pinewood Derby ! Several times over past month it seemed like tonight would never get here. The past few weekends have been spent cutting, sanding, weighting , painting, and polishing various parts of the car. Louie...

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:58 PM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Kids, Matt, Photos, Louie, Firsts, Cub Scouts

Month in Review :: February 2010

After a quiet January we found plenty to do in February. Snow at the end of January prevented us from going to the Circus in Charlotte, but nothing could stop us from catching up with the show in Columbia . Every one enjoyed the show, even Sarah was seen clapping...

Posted Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:49 AM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Birthday, Kids, Matt, Photos, Family, Louie, Jenny, Sarah, Holidays, Lou, Life, Cub Scouts

Matt is FIVE!

Matt woke up to Birthday (by the Beatles) blaring through the house on his birthday. I’d never seen a kid go from sound asleep to full out dance party so quickly. We had his party on Saturday. If you couldn’t tell it was a football themed...

Posted Saturday, February 20, 2010 7:08 PM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Birthday, Matt, Photos

Blue & Gold Banquet

Louie was awarded with his Cub Scout Bobcat Badge at the Blue & Gold Banquet. He is the only Tiger Cub to earn their Bobcat so far. To earn his Bobcat badge he had to learn several things including the Cub Scout Promise and the Law of the Pack. ...

Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:03 AM by Louie Prete

Filed under: Photos, Louie, Cub Scouts

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