Mike & Jen Family's visit: Sandhollow

(Just a reminder that Oldest was still out of town)

We had alot of fun while M&J & Fam came to visit, but one of our favorites was the afternoon we spent relaxing at the lake. It was wonderful!

We spent it......

Underwater.......

Above the water..............

And (some of us) jumping into the water..........

Side note: These picts were taken on a disposable water camera so they aren't the greatest, but I didn't have to worry about the camera. One day we will invest in a waterproof digital.

It was a great weekend (yes all of that into 3 days)! We just went & went all day & crashed hard at night (some sooner).

We finished the weekend off playing games................

(stay tuned because there is a little more)

Life as a High School Swimmer

Instead of doing this at a swim meet........

you get to do this,

because you have this (Tendonitis).

*****

Yes Oldest has tendonitis (and a little brusitis) in his shoulder. More then likely caused by swimming. There are a few swimmers on the team with the same problem (not all in the shoulder). Well they do swim 5 days a week, 2 hours a day, for about 5 months, I am not surprised. He timed at last weeks meet, per Docs reccomendation to take it easy until the Region Swim Meet next week.

Doctors orders:

Ice, Ibuprofen, ice, exercises, ice, rest and ice.

His goal:

Regions this Thursday and Friday.

He is working hard and we wish him LOTS of LUCK!

Summer Swim Team

WOW! Alot has happened in the last few weeks so I will break it down in a few different posts.

First Swim Team.........All three kids are on a summer swim team this year. They get up and go to practices at 7:00 A.M. Mon-Thurs since May 26. They missed two of the meets and have one more this Saturday. They all had fun and improved ALOT. Youngest surprised us by competeing when she had said she didn't want to. I am proud of them all.

The Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point

I have been slow in getting any new pictures on here, but we have had some fun things happen this last month. A visit from G'Ma Pat, State Swim Meet (Oldest was an alternate, but didn't swim), A trip North, a 15th Birthday and just life. So I will post more soon.

While up North we went to the Dinosaur Museum........We had BLAST! We watched a 3-D movie about Africa (the elephants got a little close), toured the museum and then watched another 3-D movie about the ocean....SOOOOOOO COOL!

There were so many things to do and touch. I thought the kids might get bored but even teenagers like to touch everything.

He just thinks he is as tall as a dinosaur... at least he can say he is as tall as his knee 8-).

The swim meet was at BYU so we were able to take the kids around the campus. We didn't get out and walk to much because the weather was not to nice. We did go to the Wilkinson Center and eat dinner and of course get a couple of BYU shirts and my personal favorite, (and reason for my support in this trip), the Chocolate Covered Gummy Bears YUMMMMMMM! I didn't get any pictures there though mainly because like I said the weather was not being to nice. We also enjoyed going to watch the 4A State Swim Meet. We had a FUN time and can't wait to go again next year and see The Oldest swim!

Region Swim Meet

Ready......Set..........Go!

Pull!.....Pull!....Pull!...Pull!...Pull!...Pull!....

CONGRATULATIONS!......JOB WELL DONE!

Region 9 Swim Meet was this last Thurs. and Fri. The Oldest did AWESOME! He swam the 200 I.M. (50 yds. of each stroke) on Thurs. and a 100 yd. breaststroke on Fri. He didn't better his time in the I.M., but shaved 4 seconds off his breaststroke! He worked soooooo hard all year and we are proud of him! The State Swim Meet is in Feb. and he will find out at practice on Monday morning if he made it. If not, swim team will be over for this year, but starts up again in 7 months (can you believe it?!) We hope to get him some private lessons and he will join a Summer swim team. He really enjoys it amd works very hard at it so we hope he knows how much we love him and how proud we are.