Swim Team Luau

Jenna and I have been busy getting ready for the annual Swim Team Luau! It's always such a fun night and a great way to kick off the swim season with our friends and family that are a part of the swim team! We got all Hawaiian and and were ready to have some fun!

 It was such a fun night and the kids had an absolute ball!

Lila's friends

 Lila is almost 5....and this.... her summer before Kindergarten...she has found her love of FRIENDS!

She is loving her little group and they are having the best time!

 She wants to play and have sleepovers and just be with her buddies!

and she has a group of 7th graders that she adores and hangs out with too! It's so funny to watch her flit from group to group...but she is happy every second she is with her friends!

I love that friendship is important to her...it truly is one of the greatest gifts!

summer so far......

Summer just got here and yet it already feels like it is fleeting..... we have been so busy and have had so much fun so far. Yes...the big things make summer special....but so much of summer fun is the every day...impromptu moments that happen just because they can. I just want to remember those too! Summer so far has seen a lot of sleepovers...really too many to count!

 lots of birthday parties.....

 nights hanging on the deck......

 picnics at the park......

 LOTS of back yard basketball......

 kids in the kitchen galore.......

 cookouts.....

lemonade stands......

 cheer......

 pool time........

 boys being boys......

water balloon fights....

 swim practice......

fun time in the pool.....

 and tooling around the neighborhood on the motor cycles!

summer so far......has been oh so good!!!!!

stitches & ice cream

It started out as a great day! We were all at the pool...SK and JR is their new matching bikinis when tragedy struck! Julia cut her toe in the pool and was off to the hospital for stitches!

Later after  an impromptu cookout with the Timmerings ice cream was in order for sure for Julia! So we headed to the Widow Walk and had the best time on the river soaking up summer.....

being with friends.......

and totally forgetting about stitches for a few minutes!

It had been a crazy day but we had a beautiful night for sure...how could you not with a sky like this, ice cream and friends!

Mock Meet

GOCC swim team is ready to go! Tonight we had our mock meet...a little practice run for everyone!

It was great to see the kids back in the pool!

That Riggs Hardy in a swim cap and goggles.....so cute!

He swam great!

and loved being there with his friends!

It was Sk's first time to even attempt to swim across the pool in a meet .....so exciting!

and poor Julia had to sit with her stitches in her toe and watch tonight.

But in GOCC swim team style we cheered and got ready to swim!

I was so nervous for SK......

But this little girl never ceases to amaze me!

Sister jumped in......

and swam across that pool just as fast as she could! We were so proud of her!

when she reached the end she looked back at the length of the pool.....

and she was proud too!

Riggs had a great mock meet too!

He looked great out there!  I love to watch him in the water!

Rolls sat this one out...and went to Will's birthday party but we will see him in the water soon!
It was a great Mock meet!

Welcome to Swim team, SK!

 Welcome back to swim Rigsy!

and watch out to everyone cause the pool posse is in full effect this summer!