Those daughters are gonna do it again. Go girls!

They had such a successful first experience with the YWCA Triathlon Sprint a few weeks ago, that they signed up for another this Saturday! Running, swimming, biking machines, I tell you!

Nana will babysit the grandkids. I'll join the dads to watch the race, cheer the daughter-athletes, and shoot some pictures as they swim in the St Croix River and run and bike the Willow River Park trails, near where we used to camp when they were kids.

Who would've seen this coming? I love it!

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scott said…

Who really knows what work the Lord is doing in the lives
of Hillary & Holly ?? I can tell you this ...It's not coinsidence ...this "just happened "..It is ALL part of a wonderful plan that HE has for the both of them...It's not about running harder,faster or beating another team of sisters...It's about love ,compassion,and the fact that they both love JESUS and care for those around them ... they are letting their " LIGHT " shine !!
It is an eternal work they are doing..and all of us support them !

September 3, 2009 at 10:00 PM

Hilary said…

I'm already looking forward to next summer, Dad, when you can come on out and cheer us on again and again! So happy we can share in the experience with you!!!

September 6, 2009 at 9:49 PM

PTCPAPA said…

You have such a great perspective on the important things that are REALLY happening, Scott. What a guy! We need a little of you back here in the lake country! PTCP

September 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM

The Gentle Smith Matriarch

We met in 1966 when she was 18 and I was 22. We began dating soon afterward, and as I recall never disagreed on much. Our childhood homes were 3000 miles apart and we loved Minnesota and each other, so we got engaged in July 67, married in December and moved into a house with a teenage foster daughter. This was followed by , Daughter 1 the following September, Daughter 2 three years later, Daughter 3, a year and a half later, ..and eventually Son, 3 years later. There were also about 15 different short-term teen-foster boys in those years. The gentle matriarch has worked her whole life, hard. I went to college nights for a few years, she worked outside the home part-time while the kids were growing. She spent frugally, loved lavishly, and has always cared first and foremost about her family. She is a gentle giant who has brought love, fun, discipline, imagination, good food, and artistic, creative homemaking to our big family....and as I write this she's preparing for Easter Dinner...

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I was invited back to Paragon for a day of fun

On a gorgeous August 13 morning, Sandie picked me up at home so that I could tour the new Paragon office and hang out with lots of great work friends for lunch on a river cruise aboard the Mississippi Queen. Jesper and Bill Lunch was a banquet of fine food, drinks, and desserts, which we enjoyed while leisurely cruising the vital Mississippi, including a couple of the locks, and a great view of the Stone Arch Bridge near downtown Minneapolis. Martin met me with a huge cucumber, which made it seem just like the old days for me. Paragon occupies a bright new suite with terrific views in all directions. Mid- morning I got called into Martin's office. When I stepped in, there were already people there, and they presented me with a handsomely-framed collage capturing many of my fondest days with this extraordinary collection of work-friends. I am a blessed and lucky man!

PTCPapa

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