Running non-stop............

This weekend was busy for our family. First thing Friday morning I dropped Ryanne off at her friend Hope's house; Then ran to pick up my grandma to meet up with Dan at Morgan's school. Each year they set aside a day to honor grandparents. Its very sweet, they have coffee and cookies and all the kids from each grade perform something they have been working on for the year. Then after the assembly the grandparents go to the classrooms and get to spend time with the kids. They get the tour and find out what they have been doing all year. The kids also make them cards and things like that.
Morgan was so cute, she was taking her great grandma all around introducing her to all her friends and to her teacher. After they are done they get to leave school at around 11:30 to take their grandparents to lunch and then spend the rest of the day with them. We all headed to Red Robin and had a great rest of the afternoon.
Then bright and early Saturday morning we headed to Palm Springs for Morgans swim meet. We originally thought she was in two really early events so we didnt even pack snacks or things for Ryanne to play with. Turns out they had her in the wrong events and we were there ALL DAY!!! Did you hear me? ALL DAY!! At least it was 84 degrees and beautiful outside. It was her first long course event which means she swam a 50m in backstroke and freestyle. That is double the distance she has been swimming. It was SOOOO crazy. I think I held my breath and closed my eyes the entire time she was swimming. She made it and I am pretty sure she thought she was going to die as she came out of the water. :) Here's my baby swimming across the pool in her final event. After we got home from the meet we headed over to my Aunt and Uncles house for my cousins 21st b-day party (sorry no pictures, forgot my camera).
After going to early service this morning we headed over to Caleb and Luke's for their joint birthday party. Fun was had by all but now I am ready to put my feet up. Whew, we have a really busy week ahead too! At least mine starts off with a massage tomorrow morning. :)

My Crazy Athletes!

So we decided the swim Gods hate us (joking! Please don't e-mail me about that!) because everytime we have a meet it is raining and COLD! So this is what we do in between swims. We huddle! Here is Ryanne trying to help keep Morgan warm and ham it up at the same time!!
Morgan did really good. She shaved time off of her last free-style and didnt get DQ'ed on the backstroke so we were thrilled for her in that. She got a first place ribbon from last month for her division in the freestyle and she got 2 6th place ribbons for both of her times in her age division this past weekend. Not bad for a kid who has only been on the team for a month and a half. She loves it and we love that she is staying active and having a blast at the same time; now if we could just the weather to work with us for November that would be great. This is one mom who is tired of being wet and cold all day. Ugh! Ready, set, go Morgan go! When they are this little they do their starting dive off the side. She is almost ready to go off the platform as coach Austin has been working with her. Frankly I am fine with her staying on the ground. :) You can see Ryanne in the back ground ready to cheer her sister on.
We went right from Morgan's meet in Redlands to Hermosa Beach where Dan had a race VERY early on Sunday morning. The weather had at least cleared a little bit but as you can see in this photo it is still very dark and very early! But we couldn't miss our traditional good luck before the race hug.
Here is our friend Pastor Chris and Dan as they head out to the starting line. Good luck boys!
Here are Morgan & Ryanne waiting for daddy to cross the finish line. He did it 20 minutes faster this time which amazed us all. Now he is officially hooked. Lucky for us the season is about over so we will get to sleep in a little. :)