WAY TO GO BEN!

This is out of the Everett Herald for this last week!

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20111018/SPORTS01/710189947/1004/SPORTS#Athletes-of-the-Week----Oct.-10-15

Athletes of the Week -- Oct. 10-15

The best performances in prep sports from last week

Ben Mietzner

Jackson | Boys tennis

The Timberwolves freshman beat Kamiak's Conor Garside 6-1, 6-1 and Cascade's Eddie Bayya 6-0, 6-2 as Jackson swept the week to finish the season 16-0 for the third straight season. 

Ben finished his tennis season with a 16-0 win in mostly number 2 and 3 singles.  His coach did have him play in some doubles this last month and he did great! This week the highschools had their league championships at his school, Jackson High, to see who would make it to districts. Ben played doubles with a senior David Hong.  They made it through the league championships and made it to districts! Six of their teammates made it as well! Ben and David are seeded 4th and next week they will be play at Districts at Stanwood Highschool to see who will make it to State!  

Exciting stuff for our little freshman! ;)


Go Jackson!

Mark Is Amazing!

Mark, with 4 other amazing women, organized a fantastic Breast Cancer Tennis Mixer to raise money for the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and their MammoVan.  He took so much time and effort to go out to many of the local businesses and ask them to donate anything they can.  That can be a challenging thing to do, and he accomplished so much! At the tennis mixer people could purchase raffle tickets to place in a bag that would be randomly chosen for the winner. 

 Mark was excited to announce they raised $2,452!  

 

And the winner is......

Lightning McQueen came to the mall!

Ashton had just woken up from a nap, so he was still in a daze.  He didn't want to stand by himself for the pictures.  The line was long to just get your photo taken, but they were free photos and pretty cool cars! He seemed excited to see the cars in real life size, but they kept telling him to smile at the camera.  I think he would have rather just stared at the cars!

Pumpkin Patch

We woke up to a beautiful October day in Washington, and told the kids we were headed to the Pumpkin patch!

Hannah was the lucky one to get to ride the Cow Train with Ashton.  They sure enjoyed it. The driver went fast at times, and they received a little tour of the farm that we didn't see. 

We did have loads of fun at the pumpkin farm! 

There were two mazes to choose from.  The 10 acre maze that takes approximately 1 hour to complete, or the kiddie maze that is about 15-20 minutes to complete.  I think Ben and Hannah would have loved the larger maze, but it was close to lunch time and considering we had Ashton who is just recently potty trained, we stuck with the quicker one.  We didn't want any accidents on our fun day out, plus we still needed to go find our pumpkins!

We had one rule for pumpkin picking.  If you can carry it then we can get it!  

Ashton found the perfect pumpkin. 

Tons to choose from!

Hannah was very proud of her choice!

Ashton helped me find the perfect pumpkin too!

I think Ben was thinking he was too old for photos with his pumpkin - but I told him he'll never be too old with me!

Mark's is the biggest one in the wheelbarrow.  Ashton sure loves to help daddy!

I love the fact that this Pumpkin Patch has this growth chart.  Last year Ashton was just under 3 feet. 

This was last year.  Fun to see the difference!

What a perfect tire swing!

After I took this photo of Ashton, he wanted a turn taking photos of everyone else. He did a darn good job of taking our photos! All of the photos following are taken by Ashton:

Homecoming

Ben's off to his first Homecoming Dance tonight.  He was one of three kids to be nominated for the Freshman Homecoming Court. He didn't win, but how exciting for him! One of his good friends Payton had won the title.  They are all heading together to enjoy a fun evening with friends!

It made us remember the last time he had a tux on - at our wedding.  He looks so good!