The Bodnar Family is on vacation!!!!

Yes, I know it has been a LONG time since I have updated my blog, and for that I am sorry. But, I think I will make up for that with our stories so far of our vacation. It was to begin on Monday morning at about 6am, however, L.Michael broke his tooth off again. (he broke it off this past May, and it fell off again on Sunday) So we had to begin a bit delayed with a visit to the dentist's office first. All was fixed and he is now smiling again. From the dentist we headed north to Pine Creek for a day of hiking (about 5miles, yes, it was hard). The view was worth it when we finally made it to the top! We were all looking out at the view when Mike decided he would go down and take a photo of myself and the boys from down below. So he hopped down, we smiled pretty and than we decided to jump down and as we did so, Nick said "Oh my God! There is a snake!!!" So we all ran away, and than I slowly stepped back to only lay my eyes on a true blue, for real, not dead, freaking timber rattlesnake!!!!!! You know, like venomous! We all just missed stepping on this thing. I was so freaked out I just wanted off the mountain. We did make it down with no further issues.We stayed at a little motel on top of the mountain and on the way down the mountain the next morning, we saw a black bear! Yup, a true to life black bear. It looked at us and we at it and than it ran up the hill and was gone.

The boys were fishing just a little while later and at our second fishing spot of the day, Nick saw a 2nd snake. It was all curled up on a bush sunning it self.

The boys finished their fishing and we got in the car and again headed north to Cooperstown NY to the Baseball Hall of Fame. We have not yet made it to the hall of fame, but the boys did get to go swimming for a littl bit in the 10mile long lake that is right behind our motel. So, as you can read, our vacation is going very well so far and everyone is enjoying themselves. Tomorrow (Wed.) we are doing the HOF and than will again head north. Will keep everyone in touch with the Bodnar family, I promise!

Evelyn and Locks of Love

Just wanted to say how very proud I am of my niece, Evelyn, who just recently cut her hair off to donate to "Locks of Love". The good people at Locks of Love take donated hair and make wigs out of it and give them to kids who have lost their hair from the treatments from cancer. Eveyln had almost 12 inches cut off her long, brown locks, and now she is looking very stylish with a wedge cut in the back. Bravo to you Evelyn. You are a good little girl!

Graduation Day

Congratulations to Tyler who graduated yesterday and is now done with high school and moving on to Penn State University in just about 2weeks time! We are very proud of Tyler as he ended up ranking 22 out of 462 students! After graduation yesterday, we all headed up to Steve and Coletta's house for a bbq of ribs and burgers and baked potatoes and salad...it was all very good and in between the thunderstorms and rain, the kids played outside and we had a few drinks and lots of laughs. Tyler is on his way to OCMD this morning with some friends for senior week at the shore! Have fun and stay safe. (Will post some photos when I get them from Coletta)

It's official....the school year is over

Yup, today was the last day of school for this year and as of lunch time, we now have a 6th grader and 2nd grader!!! Yikes! Where has the time gone. It seems like yesterday I was putting Michael on the bus for the first time and now he is going into his last year in elementary school. And Nick, he is just moving right along. Good reports re: their report cards. Michael got straight A's again! And Nick had straight G's again! (which is equivalent to A's) So we are very proud of both boys! And we are also very proud of Tyler who will be graduating tomorrow at 11am! I will update with photos of that big event when I can. Good job boys!

Nicholas and Baseball

I realized looking at my blog, that I didn't have photos or updates about Nicholas. So prior to Friday nights game, I got Nick out front in his uniform ready to play ball. And play he did! His team won 3-1 and he had a great hit and a great catch at shortstop! (I didn't even realize that he had caught the ball, and I don't know if Nick realized it at first) But he did and it was a great play! I will try and get some better photos of Nick in action. The Bodnar household is very busy in the coming 1 1/2 weeks. We have someone playing, practicing or coaching every night until June 12! Crazy! And in the middle of all that Tyler turns 18yrs. old, he graduates from HS, I start Biology, I need to cook wings this Wednesday and we need to sleep and eat in there too. Oh, and I guess school is still in session. So I will update when I get a chance and try to keep everyone up to date with the Bodnar family.

Memorial Weekend

The unofficial start to summer has ended and we all had a great weekend, no matter what state we were in! L.Michael had a fantastic tournament weekend down in Delaware. It was a huge complex and there were 10teams in his division. They ended up in 2nd place over all, making it all the way to the championship game, but unfortunately loosing 12-11. It was a tough loss, but it was a fantastic game. The team they played has a record of 54-2, and alot of the fans and the coaches said that our team was the best competition they have had in a long time. So we were very proud of the boys for how they played this weekend.

Up home, the rest of the Bodnar clan also had a good weekend. They had to dodge some nasty thunderstorms but, overall they had a great weekend too. The boat was in the river and there were chairs up in the rapids (Derek). There was of course baseball happening up here as well and Nicholas and his team won there 3rd game I believe. Go Pirates!

Yesterday (Tuesday) I began a quick 8 week class over at NCC and have some reading to do today. I also start Biology on about June 8. So, even though my spring semester is over, I still have school this summer. Almost done.

Will post some photos of Michael's weekend. They are of course baseball, but I thought you would like to see anyways. Ciao!

WOO-HOO!!!!!

As you all know, I had 2 classes this past semester, Foundations of Education and Intro to Statistics and my final grades are in and I got 2-A's!!!!!!! Not one, but 2! I cannot believe it. Worked hard in both classes, but, stats was by far a HUGE challenge for me (as anyone who was in NH with me over President's Weekend would know) Anyways, the semester is officially over and I did it. (Patting myself on the back right now) Yeah for me!