Swim meet at Bryant 7/9/11

Zack freestyle dive in...
Kammie finishing up her freestyle...
Jordan backtroke...

The Bryant pool is an indoor pool, but opens up in several places and has lots of windows. We sat right outside one door and waited for the next events. One time Jordan came outside and sat down on the cooler. A butterfly came and landed right on her. (I was surprised she didn't scream, but I guess it wasn't a "scary" bug.)
closer view of the butterfly on Jordan's leg...

Spencer on the kickboard event with his head in the water (he has the red kickboard father out in one of the middle lanes)...
Grainy photo of Spencer on Kickboard with his head up...

Jordan on her marke for the breaststroke start...
J breast stroke...

Zack on his mark for butterfly...
Kam just dove in swimming butterfly...
Kammie butterfly stroke...
Kammie on her mark to start IM...
Kammie's IM backstroke...
Kammie's IM freestyle...

The boys were all worn out after the long morning swim meet. They both konked out in the car in the back seat on the way home.

Zacky upside down...
Spencer all curled up on the seat...

Meet Results:
Spencer
25 kickboard 58.15 (He continues to improve his time and finished in 19th place.)

Zack
25 freestyle 20.15 (Gold time) 3rd place Gold
25 backstroke 26.44 (Silver time) 2nd place Gold
25 butterfly 30.25 (Silver time) 2nd place Silver
100 IM 2:06.06 (Silver time) 3rd Bronze
8 and under 100 Yard freestyle relay team took 1st Place

Kammie
50 freestyle 38.00 (Gold time) 3rd place Gold
50 backstroke 50.63 (Silver time) 2nd place Silver
50 butterfly 48.53 (Silver time)1st place Silver
100 IM 1:46.30 (Silver time) 1st place Silver
12 and under 100 freestyle relay team took 3rd Place

Jordan
50 freestyle 39.67 (Bronze time) 4th place Bronze
50 backstroke 49.44 (Bronze time) 4th place Bronze
50 breast stroke 48.38 (Silver time) 1st Bronze [Qualified for meet of Champs with a silver time.]
18 and under 100 freestyle relay team took 9th Place

Kammie gets her ears pierced

For her 10th birthday, Kammie wanted to get her ears pierced. (She's the first of our girls to want to have this done.) So, on the afternoon of the 8th, we took her to Merle Norman and had it done.

First the left ear...She never even flinched.


Then the right...

It's done!

It's been a long 7 weeks, but she was finally able to take the studs out and change her earrings. She's very excited to be able to wear and change them now. She's faithfully cleaned them daily and we've had no infections or problems. Jordan is even now interested in getting her's done.

Cow day at Chick-Fil-A

I was told by a friend who's son works at a Chick-Fil-A that on July 8th you could dress up like a cow and get a free meal at the resataurant. Since I am not one to pass up free food from a great place AND because we had cow PJ's, 2 cow aprons and a cow costume, we were well on our way to free meals for all of us. We just had to turn a witch's cape and dress into improptu cow costume's by pinning white spots on to them, and we were ready to go. Six free meals later, time playing in the play place, and having our picture taken with the in-store Cow, and we were set.

Our Handsome Prince

Our little boy loves to dress up as Indiana Jones, Spiderman and so on. Here he is as Cinderella's Prince.

Worn Out

A day after our 4th of July festivities, I found my daughter Kammie on the couch like this...




A few days later, Sidnie was found like this...


Late nights and early mornings with no naps!