Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Swim Meet Time!

I cannot believe I never did swim team as a kid! My children have so much fun with it during the summer and it has helped them all to be great swimmers. Last night we had our second meet of the season.

Savannah has been working with her coach in private lessons and she is doing so well! She got 7th in Freestyle and 6th in backstroke. We weren't sure if Samuel would be able to compete because he has been sick for 3 days with a stomach/intestinal reaction to a very strong antibiotic he has been on. But he was able to pull it all together in time for the meet, and boy were his coaches glad! He got 1st place in every event he competed in! He even got some new personal best times.Joshua was so excited to do an IM (individual medley--one lap of each stroke) but he ended up getting disqualified. He got 9th place in freestyle and 8th place in breaststroke. He also improved on his best times! Don't you love this picture of the arm?!!!Caleb had one of his best meets ever and was able to improve his personal best time in backstroke by over 10 seconds! He got 8th in breastroke and 5th in backstroke. After being so sick last summer, it is refreshing to have him healthy and enjoying competition again!Shelby had a personal best time in butterfly and ended up 7th in breaststroke, 8th in butterfly, and 10th in freestyle. This is the coolest picture of her doing butterfly!I was so proud of all my kids and how hard they have worked to improve at swimming. You can't beat the exercise and it is fun to have something that everyone enjoys at the same time and place!

2 comments:

J Bailey said...

is this through your neighborhood? that is so great too!!!!
we were thinking of coming up for a visit? Many end of July/1st part of August?

Sonda said...

That is so great! I wish my kids were better swimmers, but they don't like getting their faces wet. Tough to swim well unless you do:) Way to go Taylors!!