Sunday, February 17, 2008

SATURDAY IS A SPECIAL DAY, IT'S THE DAY WE GET READY FOR SUNDAY....

Saturday morning always begins the same - it's time to clean the house! I actually love this - after it is all done anyway. I love to walk through the house and see everything picked up and clean and sprakling - at least for about 15 minutes or so.

After cleaning the house, lunch, and a small rest for the kids (I had time to scrap!!!) Cooper and I went for a walk and Madi headed to her friends house. Kev had fun mowing the lawn. I needed to take some pictures for a challenge so we headed over to the little stream by our house where the ducks live. Unfortunately, there were no ducks there, but we found lots of lizards and Cooper had a fabulous time doing his favorite thing - throwing rocks to see the water splash. On our way home we saw two of the ducks waddling on the road and in the grass of one of the houses.


When we got back Kev was painting and Cooper joined in the fun. Kev gave him a few pointers and they had a great time painting together. Kev actually didn't get much done after we returned but Cooper made two masterpieces!!
We then headed off to the Stake Swimming Carnival. Having never gone to a swim carnival before we weren't sure what was going to happen - it was so much fun!! They had races for all age groups starting at 8 and going up to over 35. The younger kids did the 25 m freestyle and breast stroke and everyone else did 50 m. We cheered on everyone in our ward and swam in the kiddie pool. Rylee was in heaven in the pool and Cooper continues to surprise us with his swimming skills. He was jumping in and going under the water - a year ago that never would have happened!
The best part of the night was that Kev entered the 50 m freestyle and breast stroke for the 27-35 year old men. He took first place in both strokes. He actually tied for first place on the freestyle - they couldn't tell who touched the wall first.


I am really mad that my picture of him on the blocks is fuzzy. To my credit I was holding the baby and trying to take a picture as well, plus you only get a split second to take a picture on the blocks and I didn't get out the camera until his second race (the breast stroke).


Kev was about half a pool length ahead of everyone in the brest stroke. He got to the end and the judge was yelling at him. He couldn't understand what he was saying and thought that maybe it had been a false start and he hadn't heard and kept racing (this had happened earlier in the evening on one of the races). He tured around and looked and everyone else was heading his way he was just really far ahead. The guy was yelling at him and asking if he had a motor on his back. When he finally understood what he was saying he laughed and said no - the guy didn't believe him and had him turn around so he could check. We got a good laugh out of that one. The kids and I had a fabulous time cheering him on. Cooper was so excited and after the breast stroke said, "Daddy is really good at that one!!"



The best part was the last race of the night. It was the bishop's push. The bishops of all the wards (or a bishopric member) had to get on something that floats, then all of the kids got to push him to the end. Next year Madi thinks she will be a good enough swimmer to participate. It was fun to see and everyone seemed to have a great time, and our ward took 2nd place. What a fun thing to do.

Really, they should do something like this back home.

2 comments:

Roxann said...

Good on ya, Kevin, for blowing the Aussies away in the swim carnival! We always loved to go to that, too, but mostly cheered from the sidelines. I think Marja entered one year, and, of course, David got involved in the Bishop's Push. It really is fun. Another thing the Aussie church members do better than we do stateside is dances. Have you been to a ward or stake dance yet? Great fun.

Dera said...

Sounds like tons of fun. Good thing you can still swim fast so Cooper can cheer loud for his dad.