Out with a Bang!

We had our last swim meet of the season this past weekend. It was a quad meet, which meant that we were one of 4 teams competing against one another, compared to our usual 2. There were lots of swimmers in each age group, since there were so many teams. Both kids did well and we were so proud of Brooke for completing her first season. She loved it and really had a fabulous time. Her strokes improved a lot and she gained a lot of confidence in the water. Her favorite is backstroke and she won her heat 3 meets in a row with her backstoke. She has loved every bit of being onswim team and I know she'll continue to improve and love it more each season.

It was Austin's 4th season on the summer swim team and he enjoys it more each year. He really blossomed this season and at this last meet he was at the top of his game. We were so very happy for his success. So, in a nut shell, there were about 50 7 &8 year old boys at this meet and Austin got first place in 3 of his 5 events!! He got a 2^nd and a 3^rd in his other two, which are fabulous as well. He had an awesome meet and we were so proud of him. He loves to swim and it's so fun to see him develop his skill while having a great time. He really ended the season with a bang! Now he's just trying to talk us into signing him up for the year round team. J

He swam 5 races and below are the results:

Event 2 Boys 8 Year Olds 100 Yard IM (individual medley =one length of the pool doing each stroke-backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke and freestyle)

Name Team Finals Time

Estrada, Austin- Lakeway Lakers- 2:00.41

Event 14 Boys 7-8 100 Yard Freestyle Relay

Team Finals Time

1 Lakeway Lakers- 1:23.19

1. Piercy, TJ 8 2) Sandlin, Gray 7 3) Estrada, Austin 8 4) Linn, Reilly 8
   

26 Boys 8 Year Olds 25 Yard Freestyle

Name Team Finals Time

1 Estrada, Austin Lakeway Lakers - 19.59 10

Event 50 Boys 8 Year Olds 25 Yard Breaststroke

Name Age Team Finals Time

1 Govind, Keshav 8 Waac Rec Swim Team 27.05

2 Lasseter, Luke 8 Waac Rec Swim Team 27.73

3 Estrada, Austin 8 Lakeway Lakers-ST 28.69

Event 72 Boys 7-8 100 Yard Medley Relay (4 boys each swim one of the strokes in a relay – Austin was breaststroke)

Team Relay Seed Time Finals Time Points

1 Lakeway Lakers- 1:39.50

1) Piercy, TJ 8 2) Sandlin, Gray 7 3) Linn, Reilly 8 4) Hansen, Jake 7

2 Lakeway Lakers- 2:01.65

1. Conway-Malott, Kyle 8 2) Estrada, Austin 8 3) Bernick, Ethan 8 4) Burr, Weston 8
   

ooops...

so, as it turns out, the lake is really low right now.

we knew that, actually. it's pretty abvious to anyone who lives around here.



we were being pretty careful when we took our boat out on the lake for the first time this summer.



we weren't carful enough though. those tree stumps just came up out of nowhere. (it didn't help that we were heading home in the dark.)



it was scary when we slammed into them, but we were able to get home safely and no one was hurt. that's what counts.



the boat is out of commission for now, but we're hoping to get it repaired as quick as possible so we can get out on the lake again soon.



next time we'll just be sure to get home before dark and avoid the trees that grow up out of the water!

Organic Corn

You'd think I'd have lots of free time in the summer to do lots of blogging, but that
just hasn't been the case. I have certainly been enjoying my kids though. The first week of summer was full of great times like lake play, cousin visits, swimming, boating, playdates gardening and all around family fun.

The kids were especially excited today when they harvested their first ear of corn from their garden. :-) They have been carefully tending their garden for months. They water it, pick weeds, watch for squirrel thieves, and enjoy the reward for their efforts.

The corn hasn't been ready until today and they were soooooo stoked to be able to pick, shuck and eat the first ear. It was very cute to see how excited they all were after tending it for so long. Somehow, the corn was ever so much more delicious coming from their own garden.

Those farmer genes are in the blood and I'm very glad. :-)

Cousin fun

We had a great visit with our family in San Antonio last weekend. The kids were thrilled to hang out with their cousins. They had a great time playing with everyone and were excited about the great big sleep over we had with them.


We enjoyed celebrating our nieces birthday and catching up with family. I stayed up well into the night enjoying a visit with my sister in laws and was quite tired the next day. Lucky for me, I got a little nap in at John's parents house before we drove back.
We enjoyed the weekend and it was a nice visit for everyone.

And the winner is . . .

AUSTIN!

Today Austin's class had a Spelling Bee.

We've known it was coming for a couple of weeks and Austin was very excited about it. He loves reading and spelling, so it was right up his alley. There are lots of bright kids in his class and I knew there were plenty of them who were up to the challenge. Yesterday they had a trial run and Austin was the runner up. He said he got really nervous and missed a word that he knew. He got over his jitters today and was able to spell his way to the end. They went into their tie breaker list and

I-N-T-R-O-D-U-C-T-I-O-N

was the winning word.

It was fun to get his phone call in the middle of the day announcing the good news that he had won. Hooray!

Good job Austin!

As I was tucking him in to bed tonight, Austin told me that he wants to be a world class spelling bee champion so that he can win trillions of dollars. That would be great.

I hope he'll share his winnings.