Swim Team

Last night was swim team practice and it was cold. It was in the upper 60's with a nice warm wind and a practice in an outdoor pool. There team is dedicated. Practices will happen rain or shine. If there is lightening. Everyone out of the pool for 30 min after 30 min practice will go on. Practices are monday tueday and thursday during school. After school gets out practices are monday thru friday 7am til 8:30am then in the evening from 7-9. With a meet every saterday. They have two away meets and 3 home meets. Skipping the 4th of July. When the summer is done they are both going to swim like fish.

One busy week. Morgan had her birthday she is officially 6. Morgan had only one friend able to come to her party due to everyone going out of town for the holiday. For her present we signed her up for swim team this summer. She will be swimming every day for the next two and a half months.

We went camping also over the weekend. It was a very warm and green set of mountains. Right where the bridge is on the back of the west virginia quarter. We also floated the new river. It was a little more intense than the main payette. in an 8 mile run there was 14 class III rapids. We had an IK and a cataraft and a 18 foot maravia raft. Everyone took turns trying out all the boats. Unfortunately we left the camera at camp and did not get any pictures of the river.

Before I forget I would like to share a little more about Ashlyn. She is doing extremely well. Her class is very ethnically differant from Kuna. I think that this can be a good thing. I had the chance to attend her field trip to Great Falls nationial park. It always amazes me how wonderful our country is.

Also spent last sunday afternoon at the Nationial Zoo. The best part about the Zoo is that it is free.

It has been a while since I have written. For some reason I was having a hard time locating the cord that connects the camera to the computer making picture transfer difficult at best. But a lot has happened in the last week. Morgan has had her final music program for school. Ashlyn is in the middle of her SOL tests. I know it sounds bad. I really is the acrinime for the standardized test for Virginia. I have no idea what it stands for. But the weather has been a little mixed. Rain then sun then rain. Standard spring time patern. I was able to capture the moment of a few of our new favorite activities walking. About a mile from our place of residance is the manassas battle fields. This is where Andrew Jackson earned his nickname Stonewall Jackson.

Also one of the things that always amazes me is the differant animals that we see. Turtles for example are everywhere. This is an attention grabber because I have never before seen turtles so abundantly.

It has been a really exciting week. Marc drove to Kentucky and picked up Jon. Johns visit has been busy at best. The first morning we all went to the first battle of the civil war and walked thru the battle fields. We even took a picture of the bridge that was fought over. Then next day we met him in DC and went to the smithsonian. Too bad it is going to rain 5 to 7 inches while he is here.