Swim Club - End of Season Party

We ended the Frankfort Swim Club Season by a pizza party at the park and swimming at the community pool.  One of our board members was kind enough to rent out the whole place just for our swim club.  The girls had a lot of fun.

Brock (our sitter's son) helping Lucy

Addie at the big slide!

Addie after getting done with the slide

Stephanie (our sitter's daughter) helping Lucy

Katie sliding

Brock and Katie

All the kids

Beach Day!

My sister Megan and brother-in-law went up to St. Joe a few weekends ago to go camping (my in-laws love it there, so they thought they would try it) and loved it.  So, Megan planned a quick trip to the beach with my parents and her kids and mine.  I was able to take a day off work and my nieces were also able to join us, so it turned into a nice trip to the beach.  We were worried about the weather so both St. Joe and Holland were on our radar.  At the last minute, we decided to chance the weather at St. Joe since it was a bit closer.  It was cool and cloudy on the beach and then got a little windy (it didn't stop the kids from swimming and playing).  We moved off the beach to the playground while Mom found a place for lunch out of the wind.  Megan packed a great picnic and as soon as we set down to eat, the sun came out in full force.  We ended the day with the kids playing on the splash pad and a trip for ice cream to Kilwins.  We left around 3:30 and the kids were tired.  All in all, a nice day and thanks to Megan for planning it.

Notice Grandma Debbie in a towel - it was chilly!

Dad ended up chasing the umbrella across the beach later :)

Emily and Katie - braving the wind

Grandma Debbie, Lucy and Addie building a sandcastle

Ben, Kyran, and Tiffany

Grandpa Jim helping Kyran and Lucy.  Addie destroying the sandcastle.

Fun on the beach

Playing shark tag at the playground

Lucy at Splash Pad

Heading off for ice cream

The "big kids" 

Lucy wanted a turn too!

Mill Creek Invitational

We headed down by Danville Saturday morning for the Mill Creek Invitational.  Jason elected to stay home with Lucy so it was so nice to focus on Katie and Addie for the day.  This is a big meet and always a favorite because the have an awards program and give trophies.  Both ended up getting 7th in backstroke, 3rd in breaststroke, and then one got 6th and one got 7th in freestyle.  Katie got a 2nd in her Medley Relay.  We had few kids there due to another meet, so they patched together a freestyle relay team for 9-10 year old girls.  It was so cute because it was Addie and Katie and then two other sisters (Jessica and Ysenia) for the relay and they earned 2nd.  For the entire meet, Addie was 7th in 8 year old and under girls and Katie was 8th for 9-10 year old girls.  It was a fun day!

Add in pink cap getting ready for backstroke.

Katie in blue cap.

Random cuteness

Other Pics

Goofy Lucy

We took Katie to 4-H Camp last week.  I decided to stop at the Delphi Park on the way back to let the little girls play.

Indianapolis Zoo

This is copied from Megan's Blog:

Merry Christmas in June

This week we finally got to use our Christmas present from Aunt Stacey; a day at the zoo!  The boys were very excited to go!  I am a big lover of gifts that create memories, and this one was one for the books.  Stacey and I met at the zoo and took our five kiddos to see everything (well, almost everything...we did skip the roller coaster)!  We had great seats for the dolphin show, got to see all of the animals out and about thanks to the awesome weather, ate a picnic lunch, and even got to see a Lego exhibit at the nature conservatory.  I think the Legos might have been the highlight of the trip for a couple boys I know!

We headed home around 4:00 and I think we successfully wore the boys out...Kyran didn't give one argument when I said it was time for bed that night, and Ben was passed out on the couch before I could even ask him to head up to bed!  I'd say it was a great day for everyone!

 Waiting patiently for the dolphin show

 Everybody had to get in on the bird action!  I think I had 15-20 more photos on my phone of these goof-balls!

 The weather was so great.  I don't think I've ever been to the zoo when all of the animals were out!

 The Legos were a huge hit!  I wish I had taken more photos of them...so incredibly cool!

Other pictures I had:

 Dolphin Show!