September and October are our hottest months, so the pool was not a bad place to be. Troy and I had to divide and conquer for a few of Blake’s Saturday meets that conflicted with soccer games. Finn got to tagalong with me and he did not appreciate the early…
The phone camera was a great invention. Sure, the pictures aren’t always top notch, but that handy device in my back pocket happens to be there to grab more often than my real camera. It captures so many little things that I want to remember. June started out with a…
It still amazes me that we can can sit outside and eat ice cream cones during the winter. Crew had an incentive program at preschool that we rewarded with an ice cream date every few months. Sometimes Finn got to tagalong too. “Wear a winter apparel item day” at preschool…
The weeks leading up to Christmas were filled with school parties, church parties, favorite things parties, a live nativity, dinners with friends and all of the typical pre-Christmas activities. The closer it got to Christmas, the more the germs started spreading. Crew almost missed his preschool performance and visit from…
Blake made it past the one year mark of year round swimming and he really started to find his stride. He advanced into a higher level which meant his practice time increased to 1.5 hours, three days a week. Each practice consisted of swimming well over 1000 meters. Practice was…
Blake continued swim team all throughout the winter which meant getting out of practice well past dark and enduring chilly early morning swim meats. There are no indoor pools in Southern California, so when he has a 7am warmup time and it’s 46 degrees outside in January, you better hope…
As if I didn’t already sufficiently cover our fall happenings, here are the remaining undocumented memories captured from my phone. I’ll start by going all the way back to Labor Day weekend. After Troy’s epic surprises on the Saturday of my birthday, we took it easy for the rest of…
Blake started practicing with the swim team this summer after completing an intro program. It was his first chance to compete and he loved it. I never liked putting my face in the water as a child (still don’t), so it genuinely impressed me to watch him race. He was…
