Weekend stuff...

Saturday morning the boys had their first swim meet. They did a great job!! Adam was on a campout so he missed it, but Austin was right there with all the kids in his race. They did a 50m freestyle swim. He said he had a bad turn and didn't get much push off the wall but he was right there with the pack, he got 5th. He did a great job for his first swim meet since 2002! Jeremy is in the 13+ age bracket, which hardly seems fair to 13 and 14 or even 15 year olds because Jeremy is almost 17. He's had 2 years of experience on the high school swim team, too. He took 1st and another guy who is also on his swim team was right there with him and took 2nd. It could go either way between those two but today it was Jeremy. Then Jeremy and the guy from his HS swim team took part in a relay. Guess how that went...

I love Gilbert's swim team meets!! When the boys swam in 2001 and 2002 they swam for Mesa's program. Great program, but the swim meets were held in the evenings when the pool deck was about 110 degrees. All the parents crammed around the decks sweating to death while their kids swam way past sundown~ that was not fun for us even though we loved watching our kids swim. And Mesa would have 4 or 5 teams there, Gilbert had 2. Mesa would do all strokes in each meet, Gilbert's focusing on 1 stroke per meet, at least for now. Mesa had all age groups in one meet...Gilbert is doing the older 2 age groups first, then they can go HOME! And the best part? The meet was during the morning so it was still actually quite gorgeous out. So props to Gilbert for doing it right!! Of course I forgot the camera so I don't have pictures from the meet. What was I thinking? That's ok, Austin forgot goggles! I bought a pack of 3 goggles at Costco. The boys said one pair doesn't fit anybody very well but that leaves 2 pair, right? Jeremy already had a pair from swim team so everyone should have goggles but I wound up buying yet another pair Saturday after the meet so they'd all have some that fit or work for them. Such is life.

Ken still can't walk, time to see a doctor, it's been almost 2 weeks and he can't put any weight on his left leg. He's in an incredible amount of pain. The swelling and bruising are getting under control but there's more going on in there than meets the eye, apparently...

Adam got to see his best friend, Theo Rogers, last night. He was SO excited about it! The Rogers family moved from here to Missiouri a few years ago and about once a year they come visit family and friends they still have here in town. We miss them a lot and Adam misses Theo like crazy. I've never seen two kids happier to see each other than they are when they get together.

Our corn is over 7' tall and ears are starting to form, I'm pretty excited! We have a gazillion flowers on our cucumber plants, too, so I'm really looking forward to seeing what we get over the next few weeks. The plants look great, here's hoping the food grows well!