Getting ready for Easter:)

Easter would not be complete without some Eater egg dying.  Daddy helped out this year and he had the most creative and pretty eggs of the bunch--way better than Mommy's!

She melts my heart!

Charlotta is such a good little mommy!  She loves to surround herself with all of her babies and read stories to them or play teacher with them.  She has a really big heart.

Midwestern's!!!

Our final meet of the year (and last swimming post for a while:))!  This is the goal throughout the whole season--to make it to this meet!  We headed off to Lincoln for the three day meet, along with fourteen other swimmers on our team.  I was so proud of the kids.  They both made it on the medal stand for the first time.  These are the fastest kids in the whole state and my kids were in the top eight!  My chest was really puffed out:) Here is James for his 8th place in the 100 back!

Skylar for 7th in the mile.  She is really good at the long stuff.  IF she had swum the 1000 that she did last weekend, she would of placed 3rd!  But we had to pick...

A pretty happy girl!

Skylar and James with their best swim friend, Avery!

It was a really fun weekend!  And our girl Avery got FIRST in her 50 free!!  She was moving!

 

Final qualifying chance

Skylar and James are very close to Midwestern Championship (state) qualifying times.  So, we headed down to Council Bluffs for one final attempt at qualifying for state next weekend.  Also, Skylar wanted to swim every event this year and she still needed to swim the 1000 free to complete that goal.  The kids did fantastic!  James qualified in three more events and Skylar qualified in two more, including that 1000 free.  She swam her heart out in that 1000 and won the whole thing!

  

These are her splits and she dropped 12 seconds in her 500 and she still had another 500 to go!  Good things are in store for next weekend!  A happy girl!!

 And my little man dropped a lot of time and had three first places!

Tri-State Championships

Our district meet is today, which is the last meet for many of our swimmers.  In order to go to Tri-State Chamionships, one needs to have a B cut swim time.  Out of 72 kids on our swim team, 42 made it.  Poor little Brennen missed by .2 seconds in his backstroke:(  But Skylar, James and Kellen all qualified.  Here we are doing our team cheer!

Skylar and her teammates diving off the blocks.

 Skylar and her friends.

 Me doing a little coaching:)

 Skylar doing backstroke.

 

The kids getting their medals.  They all swam very well!

A weekend with my mom

For Christmas, I asked my mom for some of her time.  So, we decided on a weekend together where we could shop, eat, and shop:)  We went to Atlanta for the weekend and really enjoyed our time together.  We ate at really yummy restaurants.  While we were enjoying fantastic and beautiful food... 

 JT had a weekend alone with the kids.  He took them to Olive Garden, where he really enjoyed some salad:)

 

The kids were well behaved, as you can see here.  Brennen is screaming, "I wave my hands in the air like I just don't care!" and Kellen is drinking a ROOT beer, despite the look on his face.

 I really enjoyed my quite weekend, especially the desserts!

 JT-not so much:)

Meat weekend 2015

We have been planning a meat weekend since Thanksgiving with my sister Lovisa and her boyfriend, Andreas.  Andreas made fabulous sausages for us all at Thanksgiving and, since JT loves to cook so much, he really wanted to learn how to do it.  So, it finally came time for meat weekend!  JT flew us to Midland and we (well JT and Andreas--Lovisa and I took off for a little work out here and there!) literally spent an entire day making sausages!

 

 

 

It was actually a lot of fun and the sausages were delicious!!