Kate's First Swim Meet

Kate participated in her first swim meet this Saturday.  She swam the 25 back, 25 kick and an over-under (the lane lines) race.  She had a lot of fun swimming and she did a great job!  She won ribbons for all her events.  Thankfully the meets are really low-key with no timing or intense competition.  She can't wait till her next swim meet!

Maggie's swim lesson

Backstroke

Breaststroke #2

Breastroke #1

Watch out Auntie Sarah...we have another breaststroker in the family! :-)

End of school!

School is officially done for the year!  Maggie finished up her first year of preschool and Kate finished up kindergarten.  Fun year, but we are also excited for the summer!

Ms. Kim with Maggie

 Ms. Beth with Maggie

Kate's kindergarten class celebrated the last day of school with a carnival and ice cream party.  Bounce house, face painting, bowling and all!  So much fun!

Kate and Mileh became best friends during the school year and her little sister, Sofia, became Maggie's friend too.  We will probably spend a lot of the summer swimming and playing with these 2 girls.

Mrs. Nicholson and Kate

Mrs. Chicoine and Kate

Graduation walk...super cute!!!

Few more pool pictures...

We are training the girls at a young age that water polo is an awesome sport to play. :-)

Pool Play

One week of pool swimming has been quite a success.  We are LOVING our pool!!!  Kate would live in the pool if we allowed it.  Maggie is still trying to gain confidence in the pool so she stays where she can touch (thankfully).  

Maggie's Pool Video

Maggie is still trying to gain confidence in the pool so most of her time is spent on the pool steps, splashing around.  However, when I pulled out the video camera, she decided she wanted to do a show on top of the jumping wall.  She LOVES to put on shows!

Kate's pool video

Kate LOVES the pool and can spend hours and hours and hours swimming in the pool.  She loves jumping off the waterfall and she gets creative with her jumps...cannonballs, jumps onto floaties, intertube jumps, twist jumps, etc.  She is definitely a water bug!

Morrro Bay

We had a wonderful 2 days and 2 nights in Morro Bay with Will's family.  Dedushka and Grammalene treated us to an AMAZING ocean front house with stunning views of the coast, wildlife and Morro Rock.  It was an incredible weekend and worth the 5 hour drive!

Our first stop in Morro Bay was lunch in town.  The girls are posing at our lunch spot...pretty awesome view! :-)

Kate was glued to Auntie Megan all weekend long.  She just absolutely adores Auntie Megan!

While in town for lunch, we decided to rent a boat.  Dedushka was our captain and he took us around the harbor for the beautiful boat ride.

We saw a lot of seals, all lounging around on a their platform.

And we saw otters!!!  Super cool!

 This is the view from the house we stayed in...so amazing!

This is inside the main living area of the house.

Kate saw 2 deer from the kitchen nook window!  If you look close enough you can see a deer on the left and right of Kate.

Our beach by the house...sandy, huge and very quiet!

Kate spent most of her time digging holes in the beach in hopes to dig to China. :-)

Maggie preferred to do her dance shows on the beach

 We had a cold a foggy day on the beach and then a beautifully sunny and warm day on the beach. It was gorgeous!

We also went for a little drive to the town of Avila for our second afternoon.  We stopped at an ocean-front restaurant to grab some amazing lunch.

Then we lazily toured the quaint town of Avila.

Dedushka and Maggie were best buds on our walk around Avila...you can barely make out them, but they are holding hands on the pier.

Avila had a cute little park that Maggie especiall enjoyed.

Dominoes with Grammalene and Dedushka

Gorgeous sunset on our last night

Before we headed home, Dedushka and Grammalene took the girls shopping for special Morro Bay mermaid shirts.

Thanks Dedushka and Grammalene for a wonderful trip!  We had such a fantastic time!