A Cerney Periodical

 I'm in a show, Brock and Matt are in baseball all weekends, and then there is all the other life stuff! It's hard to get away. But with the observation of Juneteenth, we have ourselves a camping holiday. Up to Michigan to disc, look at stars, make fire and not sleep. Along the way we visit Holland! Michigan. The Dutch Village. Another Dutch Village post, yes. Here we go.   Not as easy as it looks. Great job. Help! It smells like foot in here!! You might remember how wet we got grandpa Omaha the last time we took to the seas on the Black Tulip. The water was just as wet as we remembered. Whew! These were hard to move. The Dutch seem to view fun as uncomfortable and difficult. So positive! Turns out I've been having more fun than I thought all these years. Last time we were here all the stroopwaffles were infected with COVID. Now that the caramel has been boosted for the second time, we are safe to proceed. Enough silliness! Time to go to one of our all time favorite discing...

(Brock prepares for the putting competition with a few of his fellow competitors. That's Sean in the middle.) This weekend Brock competed in the Illinois State Junior Disc Golf Championship, and I'm super proud of how he played and competed. About a week before the tourney, Brock had lost confidence in his putting stroke. He put in a ton of work in the basement every day finding a new putting style that would bring him more consistency and confidence, and it worked. He didn't miss a putt within 25' all day. Unfortunately, he ran into some deep deep ungrowth on a couple holes with errant drives, and his rival Sean played a great round, bumping Brock into 2nd place by 3 strokes.  The scorecard makes it look like Brock fell apart on the last hole, but that's not the true story of the tournament. We started on hole 6, and finished on hole 5 that day. It was a back and forth battle until Brock slipped up on holes 22 and 23, then he battled back and was feeling like he co...

(video) Alice has always enjoyed being pushed on a swing for as long as you are willing. For the past month or so, she's been working on getting her own pumping rhythm down, and it finally clicked! Here's a short vid of her first few minutes after figuring it all out. She went on to swing unpushed for a solid forty additional minutes. She's a swing junky.  (video) Thankfully, Dad still has plenty of value to add.

Easter fell on the day after our return from our awesome spring break cruise! Be on the look out for that post in October (just kidding I hope). But the bunny still managed to make an appearance. Alice crushed this year! Let the puzzle begin! Found. Ahhh, bunny should have put it in with the egg cartons. Missed opportunity, bad bunny.    Brrr. Alice finds her basket in her dirty clothes. Rats. Laundry was the theme. This is where Brock found his basket.  Here was the Brock hunt break down, bunny might need to step it up to more math equations, Brock flew through. Except for one of those clues, the one that looks like a flower/ fan... more on that... Alice also few through, except for I think the closet one. There was a magic moment when Brock couldn't figure out the flower/ fan clue and Alice couldn't figure out the closet one. We encouraged the children to talk to each other, and they both instantly recognized the other's stumper. And baskets were had. Brock got this a...