Summer Week 6

Dearest Colt and Jax,

This week was our first week of the summer without any sports practices, scrimmages, or games.  Surprisingly, it felt weird.  But one of you had baseball camp so that helped lessen the shock a bit ; )

After sharing you with friends, coaches, and teammates all summer, I became a bit selfish with you this week.  I planned things for just the 3 of us and I loved having the two of you to myself!!!

When it's just the 3 of us, we can have crazy hair day - HA!

We also spent an afternoon at the movies seeing Cars 3.

We road tripped into Dallas to visit the Perot Museum for the first time in a long time!

 

And baseball camp finished on a high note...

You and your good buddy, Caden, won the camp championship so you were allowed to wear your hats backwards to boast!  

I.really.really.really.love.summer!

Swim Team

Dearest Torpedoes,

We signed up for another season of summer swim team and one of you (Hi, Colt!) was more enthusiastic about it than the other.  Luckily, our long-time friends and newest neighbors (Hi, Vaughns!) signed up too so that made it better!  Swim practices started in mid-May and had us at the pool each afternoon from 4:30 - 6:00.

Once summer started, the daily schedule moved to lessons from 8:00 - 9:30.  Camps sometimes got in the way of practice so we had to have a few private lessons with Coach Halle. 

 

For the first swim meet, Michelle and I were in charge of this crazy group of boys! 

Colt, you improved so much that you won your heat!!

Your swim team bestie, Connor, was the other heat winner!

Jax, you took home some ribbons too!

For the next meet, Michelle and I tried our hands at timing.

While timing made the meet speed by, it didn't provide many photo opps.  Luckily, Anja sent me some pics she took.

 

The most fun private lesson of the season was shared with friends (so I guess that makes it a semi-private lesson...).  The love for Coach Halle is real!

Swim meet #3 included a special spectator - Grandma!!

The final meet of the season for us was an away meet that had us leaving the house earlier than usual.

But the hosting neighborhood is so pretty that it was worth the early morning!

You both improved a lot this season!  Colt, you become stronger and faster on your freestyle and backstroke.  Jax, you ventured into 50M races (earning a spot on the All Star team for this event!) and even ribboned in the butterfly!  

It was a fun season with these torpedoes!

Summer Week 5

Dearest Boys,

Baseball ended.  This was the last week of soccer.  And swim team only had 1 more meet.  So, pretty much, this week felt like the beginning of summer break!  I'm saving the swim meet for one, huge, summer-swim-team-post but here's what we were up to before that:

Colt, you and Addy fit in a workout at the park.

We got together with a bunch of friends for dinner and a baseball game.

You kids took advantage of every game at Rock & Brews.

Then we sat on the lawn to watch the Roughriders. 

 Well, us adults sat.  You kids ran around and around and around...

Part of your running included running into Daisy, the mascot.

 

The night ended with fireworks!

Another fun event was a family workout!!  On the 4th of July, we all went to Camp Gladiator!  Your efforts were rewarded with purpose defeating donuts ; )

 Later that day we went swimming at Grandpa and Grandma's.  Family was in town visiting and the neighbors were also there so their pool was hopping! - but I didn't take any pictures!

Of course, our 4th of July ended in our traditional spot with our favorite friends.  You kiddos are taking up almost the whole tailgate these days but I'll still ask you to recreate this picture for years to come!

 Yay for Independence and Summer Break!!!