Blue Dolphins Swim Meet

Today was Jackie's first swim meet. While she had serious anxiety last night, this morning, and immediately before the race, she still swam all her events today!

Jackie had personal best times in all 3 events. Here she is with her good friend, Kristin, before the meet. This is a homeschool swim team and they raced boys against the girls. There were 34 swimmers today.

 Pre-race meeting with head coach, Stephanie, to get the swimmers ready for the meet.

 Deane and I were timers during the meet and Ken & Holly were in the cheering section with Cameron & Lucy. DaddyO was at a cadaver lab, but watched the videos of JBird swimming.

Gotcha Day!

We adopted another puppy! Bear came to us from a neighbor, who was his foster home. While Bear is only 10 months old, he's had 3 homes already. We are his forever home. #4.  He's been welcomed by all, including Happy and Spanky. Bear is bigger than Happy & Spanky, but we think he's a 'tween', which is mix of a standard and a mini dachshund. He acts ever the puppy! More pictures to come.

Visitors

A few weeks ago, we had some friends visit from Indiana. 

They have 3 kids all about our kids age, so it was a kid festival.

 Lucy quickly became BFF's with Ava, who also eats, breathes, and sleeps princesses. Ava spells her name AVA-heart-smiley face. So now Lucy spells her name LUCY-heart-smiley face.

 The boys were non-stop and wore us all out

Jackie was smitten with Sam, the 10-yr-old boy, but clearly STILL the leader of the pack. It was a great weekend and we look forward to seeing our friends again this summer at the beach.