Just Keep Swimming......

AAHHH.....another swim season has come to a close. As you know I love swimming. I am sort of living through my kids on this one. This season was somewhat brutal but we made it all by ourselves. Jared is having to work 6 days which meant that the 7 am to 4 pm swim meets every saturday were braved alone by me and the kids. I did have some help babysitting ashton and we of course had our canopy mates the Hogues and the Whitezells to keep us company. Even though I have been told I am crazy by my husband and my sister I would be in complete heaven if my kids wanted to compete in swimming at the junior olympic level. It would require some extra training and swimming year round but I don't care I really would love it.

This was Mackenzie's first year swimming. She loved it and had a great time. It was funny watching her do the freestyle. Somehow she managed to combine the butterfly and freestlye into one stroke. On the other hand she did fabulous on her backstroke with that being her fastest swim.

Landon Landon Landon, if you know him you know what I mean. The kid is just impossible. He likes swimming but for him it is 1st place or nothing. So while swimming he will take a look at the other lanes, gauge where he is at, then decide if this is going to be a "fast swim" or the "first is out" so I'll just leisurely make it to the wall. Last year Landon took a lot of first places, this year there was a little boy on another team who could swim the butterfly in 17 seconds. Honestly when all the other kids were just coming up out of the water he was touching the wall. HE WAS 6! It was crazy to watch , but that made Landon become lazy about all of it. He enjoyed the season but was disappointed with how he placed. I was just happy that one of my kids showed an ounce about caring what place they got.

Ethan had a great season, he showed tons of improvement and was really interested in getting better at the different strokes. He swam really hard this year and was very excited when they told him he couldn't swim in the "B" meets anymore because he had gotten to fast.
He also got to start swimming breast stroke this year which I thought ok what's the big deal but when they were going through what would get him DQ'd I realized it would be a miracle if he didn't get DQ'd. He really paid attention and did awesome in the breast stroke. He was so proud of himself and so were we.