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Alex’s Swim at Texas Summer Games

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This past weekend Alex and I were in Waco Texas for the Texas Amateur Swimming State Meet. It’s a league that’s meant for kids who normally don’t swim on a competitive team during the year. Since this was his first year competing we were pretty impressed that he was able to place well enough at the regional meet and make it to the state meet. And by impressed, we also mean, really, we have to drive to Waco and spend the night for a 25 free and a relay?

He swam really well. In the 25 Free he took 2 seconds off his best time and went 17.49 and placed 13th. He also swam on the 4×25 Free relay and they came in 6th overall.

Here is the video of his 25 free. He’s in lane one swimming wild man, no cap or goggles.

Alex 25 Free Video

It’s Been A Long Time…

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It’s been a long time since I’ve had time to make an update and in fact I really don’t even have the time now since we need to run out the door to one of Alex’s soccer games.

We are getting settled in the house though there are still a lot of boxes all over the place but every day it gets a little better. Deanna and Doug are in town with little nephew Corey for a visit and I’ll put some pictures together once things settle down a bit.

In the mean time here’s a picture of Andrew at the Dallas Aquarium from the other day.

Alex’s First Swim Meet

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The other night Alex had his first swim meet. He’s been swimming on a summer league team for kids who normally don’t swim during the year and he’s really enjoying himself. The team has already had a couple of other meets but this was the first one that we were able to attend and I think he had lots of fun.

It was kind of weird for Jen and I since we took turns timing and we were thinking how it’s all come full circle. Our parents used to time at our meets and now we are timing at our kids meet.

This is a low quality video of Alex swimming the 25 yard free.

Florida Vacation Pictures

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At the beginning on June we took a family vacation to Watercolor Florida which is located in the pan handle kind of mid way between Destin and Panama City. Kelly was the vacation planner and booked a house that the whole family stayed in. It was a really relaxing vacation with swimming in the gulf, hanging out around the pool, afternoon naps, and other really strenuous vacation activities.

We took a bunch of pictures which you can see here.

And before anyone asks, we managed to make it there just ahead of BP oil spill tar balls washing up on the beach. While we where there they started showing up in Pensacola and by the looks of the Google Map of the oil spill it won’t be long before they start showing up there as well.

Yearly Pictures – Finally Done!

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I know it’s just about the end of June now and I’ve finally got around to getting the yearly pictures posted. I got Caroline’s done back in February but just didn’t get around to getting the boys pictures finished even through we took them relatively close to their birthdays.

Here’s Andrew’s Pictures and Alex’s Pictures. And, in case you missed it, here’s Caroline’s Pictures.

New Collage for Home Page

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I always promise that I’m going to keep the picture collage on the front page up to date but it’s been about a year since I last updated it and it was really out of date. Since everyone went to bed early tonight I had some free time to myself and I put a new one together.

Andrew’s Race Track Art

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Back in February when we were in New Orleans for Mardi Gras I tweeted from the Race Track “Doing what every good parent does, teaching our kids how to win at the races.” and added the picture http://tweetphoto.com/11518070.

So yesterday Andrew finished up his school year and he came home with his art work and take a guess what was in the package. Race Track art.

Andrew's Horse Racing Art.

House Update

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Did our weekly trip out to the house and things are coming along pretty well. The brick is about 95% complete, the walls have had the texture added, the hardwood floors have been installed and while we were there a crew was working on putting up the trim and staircase hardware.

Front of House, Brick and Stone is Up.

Front of House, Brick and Stone is Up.

Back of House.

Back of House.

Hardwood floors in the living room.

Hardwood floors in the living room.

Cabinets in the bathroom.

Cabinets in the bathroom.