Look Mom, No Hands!

This is what a 3 year old will scheme when she's left by herself for 2 minutes with no supervision. Very resourceful this one...

Step 1 - Apply visor upside down around midsection...

Step 2 - Insert reading material

Swim Team Season One - Check!

Woo Hoo! Our first season on swim team is over! Sarah-Grace did am amazing job! She enetered the county meet in 37 place with a time of 28.18 seconds in the 25 yard backstroke. She won her heat on Saturday with a time of 25.13 seconds (dropping 3 seconds off her best time) and is now ranked 9th in the county! We are so proud of her. She almost cried on Saturday when I told her she didn't have morning practices anymore.

Monday was her team awards party. She won most improved for her age group and she won most notable swim for entering the county meet in 37th place and finishing in the top 10. After the awards ceremony she broke down crying because she said she was going to miss her coach and because swim team was over. She was also upset because her trophy was bigger than her friends (she didn't understand why they all didn't get the same size since they all tried their best). Below is a you tube link to Sarah-Grace's county meet swim and some pictures from this season. Sarah-Grace is wearing the white UGA swim cap (this was in protest to the meet being held at Georgia Tech). Be sure to listen out for Charlotte screaming "Go Sarah-Drace" in the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e5a5nl01-k

Beach 2008

We had so much fun at the beach this year. Tori came with us and so the girls got to spend some special time with her before all the wedding chaos commenced and she left for OK. Below are some highlights and pictures.

• Charlotte stepped off the bottom stair of the pool after Tori just warned her not to without her swimmies on and of course she almost drowned. Tori jumped in and saved her (even though if Charlotte hadn't panicked and just stood straight up her face would have been above water). Sarah-Grace said Tori was a super hero and saved Charlotte's life.
• We learned that baby jelly fish don't sting, because the beach was covered with them on the last day we were there.
• Pompano Joe's is MUCH cooler in June than in August, but you may have to wait an hour or too - no matter who you have on the "inside".
• Charlotte likes it eat Fetta-JeJe Alfredo (it's what she calls Fettuccine Alfredo).
• When we went to the local grocery store and I went to the wrong side (because it was a different layout than mine at home) and had to turn around, the girls were asking why we had to walk to the other side of the store. I explained I was confused and went in the wrong direction. Charlotte likes to repeat any new information she receives to whoever else is with her (even if the person is standing right next to her). So she started yelling at Sarah-Grace (whom she calls Sarah-Drace), "Sarah-Drace mommy went in the wrong ERECTION, mommy went in the wrong ERECTION". The entire store was laughing at us and Tad was almost in tears by the time he met up with us.
• Tad can not do the butterfly, no matter how hard he tries. And when having Sarah-Grace practice the backstroke he learned he needs to stand on the side to help her stop instead of just letting her bang into the side of the pool with her head!

We went minature golfing...and Sarah-Grace was really good!

I love this picture because it captures our normal family drama!!

Sarah-Grace is always posing!

The girls with Aunt Tori...

And here is where the girls are over me taking pictures...at least Aunt Tori was a good sport!

I just love this picture because their heads are tilted for some reason!

I am only posting this pic because I posted one of Tad in his suit yesterday...

Tad's not afraid to sport pink when his girls ask him too...

Hanging out in the condo...

Another picture of the condo...

This was our last day at the beach, aren't they sweet?

And Charlotte is distracted AGAIN!

Quick Pic from the Beach

Not much time to post today, but I was going through my pictures from the beach so I could write a post and I found this one that just made me laugh. I think it's my most favorite picture of our family. It just captures them so well...

June Bug

Well, June just flew by and it was slammed full of activities. We had SG's birthday party (oh yeah that's right, her birthday is in April but June was the first available date we could squeeze in - if that tells you anything). I posted some pictures below. It was so much fun and the girls looked so cute. I gave the children aprons as favors so they wouldn't get chocolate all over themselves.

We had Ian's birthday, Tad's birthday, JeJe's birthday and father's day. Tad, myself, the girls and Tori went to the beach and we had a wonderful time. Tori had several showers - all lots of fun, she got married last weekend and left on Sunday!! We miss her so much already but we are so excited for her new life as an army wife. I will definitely post some pictures when I get them because she was a beautiful bride (and the flower girls were too cute).

I was SO looking forward to this week because, dun, dun, dun it was the END of Swim Team. It's been fun and we've met lots of people, but my idea of summer was seriously cramped with practice every single morning and swim meets once a week (which means you have practice, eat lunch, rest, get to the pool by 4pm to get a spot in the vicinity of the pool, wait until 6pm when the meet finally starts, pray that there is no rain and then sit for the next 2 -4 hours during the actual swim meet). This was a pretty intense sport for us. So I was already planning on what we would be doing once we got our summer back after swim team. But, last week we got the glorious news that SG placed in the county and will be competing in the county championships. And so, my plans went down the drain because practice for county started the day after the regular season ended this week. Not only is practice everyday - but it's longer than the regular season practices and worse, the county championships are at GA Tech!! We are very proud of our little girl but we are looking forward to a much needed swim team break.


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