Dive Meet

Today, Madison participated in her first dive meet. I am completely impressed. She had never (to my knowledge) been off a high dive before, due to the fact that our club doesn't have one, but when they asked her if she wanted to compete in the high dive division also - she (literally) jumped right in. She did a front dive and a front dive with a half twist (the later without even so much as an attempt during warm ups). Man, am I impressed. She is braver than I am!

I will have to admit to some bribery here ... Mac was pretty bored after the first hour of warm ups and low board - so I resorted to ice cream.

Pretty cool back dive too (yet another dive that is not in my bag). It seems that 7 is a big year for Madison.

What form!

Spring Break '09 Part 1

For Spring Break 2009 we rented a house for the week on Fort Morgan Road (thanks to Boot and Susu) and had our own pool and beach out front - it was the perfect spring break location!

After a nice Palm Sunday nap, Mac and I left to meet Rob and the girls at the beach.  He was still feeling pretty sleepy, but I promised him that he had a whole week with his sisters ahead of him - so he was happy with that news!

As I unpacked Mac's bags, he unpacked his trains.  You can never have too many trains.  (Also, for anyone with train obsessed boys, I highly recommend this traveling Thomas the train table that converts into a carrying case.)

Day one started out a bit breezy - so the girls got creative and threw their pants on under their swim skirts.  Definitely feeling cute!

Ann Louise came over from Ono Island for a swim with us on Monday.  It was freezing in that pool - but they were not to be deterred from getting their spring break on.

Barclay tried to hang in there with the big kids but she was FREEZING.  So she headed straight for the warm bath tub.

And was soon joined by Ann Louise and Madison!

Day 2 was sunny but a bit too cold for the beach or the pool - so we put on our shades and headed to the outlets.  Susu and Mommy were proud of our three shoppers - they lasted longer than expected, thanks to an on-site play ground, a merry-go-round and some 75 cent kiddie rides along the way.  Mom took some pics from the mall so hopefully I can get some downloaded from her.