The Mellen tradition is to have both city teams play against each other. The game generally goes either way, often very close, very heated, and a lot of fun! Jesse pitched, caught, and played the field. The final score . . . Rockies lost 5-8. This year was fun to watch because Jesse and Brett played for the Rockies, while our nephew James played for the Iron City Miners.
- PARKER FAMILY BLOG
- Welcome to our family blog, we are Roxanne, Jesse, Ashton, Jackson, and Thomas-Jensen. Jesse and I have been happily married since 2001, we live in Appleton, Wisconsin. We have been blessed with three beautiful boys; Ashton, Jackson, and TJ. Thanks for looking in on us from time to time.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
4th of July Ball Game: Rockies Vs. Iron City Miners
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4th of July Parade!
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Ashland Carnival Fun
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Goodbye Dear Hometown
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
May 20, 2012 Piano Recital
The boys had the final piano recital as Colene Bolt's students. She is moving to Duluth, MN at the end of the school year. We will miss her terribly, she has taught the boys so much more than simply playing the piano. She taught them music appreciation, expression, and technic. We are hoping to continue lessons in the fall somewhere in Appleton. We can only hope that whoever we find can continue to cultivate the love of piano Ms. Bolt has shared with my boys.
Jackson preforming his solo, Indians.
Jackson and Ms. Colene Bolt's Duet, I've Got Music.
Ashton performing his solo, Maleguena.
Ashton performing his second solo, Medieval Pageant.
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Jackson's First Communion
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John
6: 53-58
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son
of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh
and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my
flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent
me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live
because of me. ...
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May 4, 2012: The OLL Spring Concert
The Art Show
Ashton playing with the O.L.L. Band
Ashton, Jackson, and Thomas-Jensen singing together
Ashton and Jackson singing together
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Brewers Game: 5-23-12
CBSSports.com wire reports Scoreboard | ||||||||||||
Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
San Francisco (23-21) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
Milwaukee (18-26) « | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | 8 | 10 | 0 |
Emerging as one of the top hitting catchers in the NL, Lucroy is batting .349 with five homers and 29 RBI in 40 games. "He likes everywhere I put him," Roenicke said. "I hope I don't mess him up by putting him in too many different spots." Zito (3-2) allowed his first six batters to reach as Milwaukee batted around in a 40-pitch first inning. He wound up giving up eight runs -- four earned -- five hits and four walks in three innings. Zito dropped to 0-4 with a 7.67 ERA in eight starts at Miller Park and his ERA this year rose from 3.00 to 3.53. "It's been weird at this yard," Zito said. "I haven't had many games where I felt like I was on my game." Jose Veras (3-1) struck out three over two hitless innings in relief of Marco Estrada, who left after injuring his right hip while running out a first-inning double. John Axford pitched the ninth for his seventh save in eight chances.
Veras, Francisco Rodriguez and Axford combined for four scoreless innings.
Zito walked Corey Hart leading off the bottom of the first, then threw high to first for an error on Norichika Aoki's sacrifice. Ramirez drove Zito's 14th pitch of the game to the left-center field wall for a 3-0 lead. Lucroy reached when shortstop Brandon Crawford booted a hard grounder for San Francisco's major league-leading 46th error, and a walk to Weeks reloaded the bases. After Carlos Gomez struck out, Cesar Izturis hit a run-scoring groundout. Estrada, who had been 0 for 8 at the plate this season, lined the ball down the left-field line for a two-run double and his first RBI in 22 at-bats over five major league seasons. He jogged gingerly to second and, after meeting with trainers and Roenicke, slowly walked off the field with an injury to his right hip flexor or quad.
The team said Estrada will have an MRI to determine the extent of the injury.
"I still don't know what happened or why," he said. "I felt a pop in my quad. I hope it's nothing serious." After Estrada was removed from the game, Hart fouled out. Aoki singled starting the second and scored with two outs on Lucroy's fifth home run of the year. Lucroy also doubled, and is batting .417 (30-for-72) with three home runs and 21 RBI in his last 20 games. "I'm just trying to have good at bats and hit the ball hard," he said. "I'm not a big guy. I'm not going to hit a lot of home runs." Hector Sanchez had a three-run double in the third inning for San Francisco, which closed in the fourth when Brandon Crawford hit an RBI single and scored on Melky Cabrera's double. With runners on second and third, and two outs, Kameron Loe struck out Sanchez.
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Love is . . .
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Birthday, Birthday, BIRTHDAY
March is our big month of birthdays! Thomas turned SIX, I can't even believe it! Time has flown by way too fast. My little baby is now a big, independent Kindergartner. Ashton turned a DECADE, the big ten. Ten years ago he made me a mom, and I have loved every minute of it.
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Bowling for the Blind ~ March 2012
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Ashton's Basketball Season
Ashton had such a great basketball season. We were really proud of how hard he worked! He became more comfortable on the floor, took chances with making baskets, and played a remarkable defender.
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O.L.L. Talent Show
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Jackson's piano solo
Ashton's piano solo
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Packer Party
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A Reminder of Life and Appreciation
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Happy New Years: 2012
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Christmas Magic
Christmas Eve Children's Mass at Our Lady of the Lake. The boys were chosen to carry Baby Jesus to the manager. While Jesse and I were especially nervous, terrified our boys would be the ones who dismembered the Christ child. They did great! Baby Jesus arrived to his appointed manager in one piece! Prayers answered!
Christmas arrived full force early the next morning! We made the boys wait for Grandpa before they were allowed to open their gifts! They were excited with all their new treasures! The next two days were spent assembling the gifts! Christmas Eve dinner was shared with Jesse's siblings, while Christmas brunch was spent with mine. Overall, it was a lovely Christmas holiday!
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Meeting Ronald McDonald
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2011 Bentlyville
A new tradition has started for the Parker family. This year my mom, sister, the boys and I made our way to the ever popular Bentlyville in Duluth, Minnesota. Bentlyville is a celebration of Christmas lights, music, Santa, cocoa and cookies, and a whole lot more! Bentlyville is free to the public and extremely popular. We braved the very cold wind and weather to stand in line for three hours so that our family to meet Santa. It was well worth the wait! This is a tradition that will continue for as long as possible. Thank you, Nana and Auntie Heather for making our evening even more special!
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Walter Wedding
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