Go Sharks!

Gettin' ready for the meet!

Dear Joshua and Luke,

Guess what we have been doing almost every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening and almost every Saturday morning this summer?  Swim team!  The boys have literally jumped into swimming and practicing for a swim team.  After the awesome lessons with Miss Kelly last year, the boys were ready to go to the next step with swimming this year.  The swim team practice started in early June and lasted through July.  We told the boys that they had to wait until Khoury League baseball was over to participate in the meets.  After the first meet, they were both hooked.

Go Joshua!

Go Luke!

First, they have the most awesome swim coaches in the area.  Coach Sharon, Jeff, and Brittany are patient and have so much to share with the children.  Even though you both practiced four days a week, you wanted to practice on your days off.  Things got a little crazy at the end when baseball and swim team overlapped a bit due to the baseball team participating in a tournament.  But it paid off!

There was a lot to learn at the first meet, but we had wonderful support from the other parents, especially Miss Michelle.  She told us all what to expect at the first meet ahead of time, then stepped us through the process once we got there.  We learned about meets, events, the importance of a Sharpie, why we should get there early, how to be a time keeper, the bull pen, and much, much more!  After coming home with ribbons from the first meet, both of you were eager to participate in the next meet.  You were very lucky to have Grandma Bonny there to cheer you on.  Again, more swimming ribbons.  The final meet was the swim conference which was an all day event.  It was fun.  You both swam so well.

Grandma came to a swim meet!

 I was proud of both of you for many reasons.  First, it took a lot of courage to participate in the meet.  It was the unknown, and you both were the newest members to the team.  Neither of you seemed nervous.  You jumped in and encouraged each other a lot!  It was great watching you two work together to help each other.  Also, you were both interested in improving your time and having fun with it. 

Best Friends

There were a few pool parties to play with old and new friends.  Did I mention that some of your teammates were friends from the neighborhood?  That made it all the more fun!  You are both talking about the fun for next year, and I can not wait either. 

We did it!

I must mention the most famous swimmer in our family, your sweet cousin, Elsa.  She has been swimming for quite a few years and has been an inspiration to you both.  You have both watched how dedicated Elsa is to swimming.  You have seen her swimming and watched in awe as she has improved and developed into one f the best swimmers around, third place in State so I have heard.  We are so proud of her tremendous talented how hard she has worked to get where she is at today.  Thank you, Elsa, for inspiring my boys in so many ways, but also in swimming.  We love you so much!

I love you both more today than I did yesterday.

Love,
Mom