Medal man

The swim team had a party to hand out all the medals to the kids who won. Thomas is here with Coach Dale and his new collection of medals to hang in his room! The other picture is him with the other boys on his relay team, can you spot the height difference.. ha ha. Hopefully soon he will get a growth spurt!!!

The return of the Crazy Dogs

Mitch and all of his senior buddies joined a co-ed rec soccer team this year. They named themselves the Crazy Dogs. After a long winter break the Dogs made their spring debut today. Sad to say it was a loss for the team but it isn't really about winning. It is just so much fun for them all to play together! What an awesome group of kids! We are so lucky Mitch has such great friends. One of the girls always brings treats for after the game, always with a juice box or capri sun, just like when they were little kids! It was a fun day watching them play and enjoying the sunshine!! Go Crazy Dogs!!!!!

Another day another dance concert!

Maddi had her high school dance concert Monday and Tuesday nights. She did great and had a lot of fun. I didn't get a picture of her in costume, but she didn't like it any way, it looked like pajamas. So here is a picture of her after the big show! Only one more three show concert to go!

Obsession

Finally, the wait is over.... we now can watch Twilight whenever we want too!!! We decided to order it and have it shipped to us rather than wait in line at midnight for it! Now you all know I am always up for a good midnight release party but with Thomas and his three day swim meet I knew I wouldn't be able to stay awake the next day if we had done it. So the funny story here is that poor Maddi knew it was coming and waited out on the front lawn in front of the mail box for it to come on Saturday. Well, it didn't come with the mail and she called almost crying because she thought it wouldn't come. She was VERY happy a few hours later when it finally arrived U.P.S. So ... final thoughts on Twilight, we LOVE Edward and Jacob but they should have found a different actress to play Bella! So now we only have 8 more months until the next movie...and yes we will be at the midnight release of that!

Guitar Hero's

I caught the boys playing together yesterday. It is so cute when they all get along!!!!

Thomas wins!!!!!

Tonight Thomas swam in the B-C and State meets. He swam the 200 backstroke and won !!!! It was awesome and it was his best time ever! Then he swam in his State Relay and ended up swimming the anchor leg. His relay team ended up beating their time by 14 seconds! It was awesome and it was so funny to see Thomas next to the guys on his team as they are all so much taller than he is!! Here is a video of his anchor leg in the relay. Good job Thomas!!!

Happy Birthday Jacob Michael Sheridan!!!

We celebrated Jacob's 7th birthday this weekend!!!! He had us up at the crack of dawn to open his presents(obviously he didn't know I stayed up until 2 a.m making his cake after Maddi's recital!) He wanted pancakes and eggs for breakfast and was surprised when I gave him a stack of 7 pancakes! He got a lot of fun presents and was SO excited to receive packages and cards in the mail this week from his grandparents, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! He loves to get the mail and freaks when it is for him! He got a big surprise when Mema showed up to bring him his huge orange stuffed T Rex! The only problem with that was that he didn't want her to leave and was very mad she stayed with Colleen and not us!!! Jacob is so much fun and smart and we all love him so much! He is such a good kid and didn't even complain that he had to spend his birthday night at a ballet recital.

Happy birthday Jake!!!!

Sleeping Beauty

She was sick of me taking her picture so she was pretending to strangle me, that's why her hands look weird! She didn't want me to use this picture but I did so next time she will let me take as many pictures as I want!!

Maddi had her end of year ballet recital on Friday and Saturday nights. They performed Sleeping Beauty. After MANY years of dance this was by far the best recital she has been in! She did fantastic and the whole show was amazing! The costumes were gorgeous. Maddi was a Royal Maiden. Good job Maddison!!!

HEARTBREAK!!

WE had the last chance swim meet over the weekend. It was the last chance to qualify for State. Every two years you have to "age up" which means you have to meet new time standards to qualify for state. Thomas turned 13 and had to age up 3 weeks ago and the time standards for a thirteen year old are BRUTAL! Well to make a long story short he swam 6 events and bettered his time in 5 of them but was off qualifying for state by less than a half of a second ! LESS THAN A HALF OF A SECOND!!!!! He has worked SO hard, practicing every day, twice a day practices! It was heartbreaking to see him come so close and not make it! In the past few weeks he has dropped so much time but just needed that half a second more! So he will now get to swim at a meet called the B-C Meet instead of State, which will be great because he will be one of the fastest 13 year olds at that meet!
Also, the good news is that he is on the State Team after all.... his awesome coaches are putting him on three relay teams that will compete at State!!!! That made him So happy to be put on those relays! So in the same weekend he will be swimming at two different meets, thankfully they are both at our pool so we don't have to travel far! So next week we will be living at the pool!