Thanksgiving Swim Meet!

Well, once again it was another exciting swim meet. This meet, Donovan was doing all 200's. His first race was freestyle and he placed second with a speed of 2:24. He did this race without kicking his feet. His coach said that he would pay for this mistake in future practices and he would be kicking all the time. His second race was Breaststroke and he did very well he placed 1st with a time of 3:12. For the whole swim meet he placed 19th in this stroke he was so hoping that someone would scratch their race because the first 16 were in the finals. But no one did, so close yet so far away. The final race was Backstroke and the last time if you remember he was disqualified. Well this time was no different. He ended his race too early (we need to practice counting) and therefore was disqualified. Bummer. There was another race that we wanted to enter it was the 50 freestyle. But his coach said that he was not allowedto enter that only babies could enter 50's. He is not in that league she said. Well I think this just about covers it. Till next swim meet.

High Fashion

This last week I let my girls watch with me on T.V. "America's Next Top Model". It was the last episode of the season and so there was named a winner of the whole thing and many photo shoots. Right after the show was over Audrey went into her room and proceeded to pull out of her closet all her church dresses and insisted on having me take pictures of her. It was late and so I made a promise that tomorrow night we would be able to do it. I was sure she would forget. But the next night she got her sister Shauna into it. They both put on make-up and where ready for their photo shoot. Outfit after outfit they would come out wanting their photo taken. So what was a mom to do but to get into it and take some photo's. The funniest part was Audrey saying that instead of growing up and becoming a doctor she now wants to be AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL!

Patriot Meet (Nov.15th)

Donovan was amazing! His first race was a 100 free-style. He jumped in the water and to his dismay his goggles slipped off his eyes and into his mouth. However Donovan was a true athlete he swam anyway. As water came pouring into his mouth with every flip turn and he was unable to see a thing he still managed to plough through the competition and managed to come in second with a time of a minute-five. Wow! It was amazing!

Blast Off!

Tonight at 7:55 pm we went outside to what looks like the sun is rising then all of the sudden you see it! The Space Shuttle leaving for there mission. The second part is that it looks like a big streak across the sky, then lastly you see a separation and the streak ends then the shuttle looks like a bright ,bright star moving across the sky.It is so cool to witness!

Halloween 2008

Once again the spooky and silly come out in the night, and for what you think... for a sugar rush!! We had lots of fun! Our church had a Fall Fling for the kids including hay rides, ring toss, cake walk, fishing for what else candy and so much more. Donovan was Kiba from a Japanese Animation cartoon called Naruto. Shauna was a Brazilian dancer. Audrey was of course a Vampire. She really loves to be scary! The kids on Halloween night cleaned the neighborhood out. They each collected 2 gallon zip lock bags full of candy! Pray for me. Until the candy's gone and the kids are done bouncing off the walls you'll probably find me on the ceiling clawing my way out of the crazy house!

Donovan's Do's

Donovan is continuing to excel in swimming. He is really amazing! He had his first real swim meet. There was over 750 swimmers there. He was able to place 2ND in the 50 freestyle. He missed his backstroke race do to his coach not getting him in the water on time. So he was to swim the next race and was trowed off his game. He didn't realize that he was to swim a 200 and stopped half through and it disqualified him. Bummer! However, It was a lot of fun and I think he is more prepared for the next big meet. (Look for the Red Cap!)

15 years

Wow! Time does fly when you are having fun. Randy and I have made it to our 15 year wedding anniversary. Looking back through our years together we both agree that we have had some pretty wild times. To celebrate this momentous occasion we took a cruse to the Bahama's. The islands were beautiful and we had a wonderful time even though the last day I sprained my ankle working out in the gym. All in all it was fun to spend just husband an wife time.