Great day at the pool!

Kevin took the results paper off the wall to keep for Thomas.




The U team. The one in the ball cap is the one he raced in the 2 IM

"That kid just beat our team mate! "

Captain of the U team. He was huge and fast! Check out the tattoo. Most of the men's team had them.

Everyone knows we are University of Utah fans. We always cheer for the U and always want them to win... until today.
We have been at swim meets for the past 3 weekends in a row. So when I drove Thomas to the pool last night I wasn't expecting much as he had done really well in the last 2 meets and he has been training to hard and is sore and tired. So I really thought this wasn't going to be a really great meet for him. Then we get there and the U of U swim team happens to be entered in this meet. Yikes!
Thomas swims in the last heat with the fast guys so every race he had one of these guys, or girls ( it was his first mixed meet , girls and guys swimming together) in his heat. It was pretty cool to see the U swim team there and the kids were all staring at them. They had all the cool gear, their speedos said Utah Man on the back, they had a U tattoo on most of their backs, they were big and intimidating.
Thomas swam last night against 2 different ones and they were amazing, Thomas finishing behind them both times.
So this morning I decide to sleep in and let Kevin take him so I don't have to drag Jake to the pool at 6:30 this morning and I missed one of his best races ever.
Once again he had to race against one of them in the 200 I.M. He was also racing against 2 of their women's team. The U swimmer was right next to him and in the lead by a little bit and then they hit the wall for the last length of the pool and Thomas caught up to him and out touched him by 3, one hundreths of a second and swam his best time by 2 seconds. The entire U swim team was watching at the end of the pool with their jaws dropped. Thomas finished first in the 200 I.M not only beating 2 Pac 12 women swimmers, which is pretty cool but out touching a men's University of Utah Pac 12 swimmer. Pretty dang amazing.
Kevin told me the entire place was going crazy and everyone was talking about the Tsunami swimmer that beat a U of U swimmer and pointing at him as he walked by. One of our moms said she didn't have a voice because she was screaming so loud.
I told Thomas he should have hopped out of the pool and found the U coach and given him a hand shake and said "Thomas Sheridan, see you in 3 years"
I know I blog about swimming a lot and sometimes he does great things and sometimes he doesn't have the best meet. He really works so hard and is so dedicated that it is fun to see him do big things like this. His Coach Steve tells me lately that he is just really starting to get fast and is working so hard. It will be so fun to see what is ahead for him in the next few years.
I ended up going out and watching his last 2 races today and I did get to see the kid he beat. He got out of the pool and dried off with his cool U of U towel, Thomas got out and dried off with his super hero towel. It was too funny. He cracks me up.

Going for the Gold

Thomas needed a new swim bag after the zipper in his old one broke. He is SUPER excited that we have an Aquaholics shop here now and he headed over there and bought a new bag. I am afraid that this is where most of his paychecks will be going from now on. Even though he is saving for a car the temptation of 3 levels of swim gear is going to be too much to for him to handle! He ended up buying the Olympic edition bag from Speedo, all black with huge gold zippers. Not too flashy at all Ha Ha! At least he didn't come home with the black speedo with gold stars all over it!

New Room

I guess it's now the Bat Cave???

The AWESOME trophy case my dad made for me where the old window was. I LOVE it!!!!


This is going to be a closet someday...hopefully soon!

With Elder Mitch coming home soon, we felt kinda bad for Thomas having to move back upstairs and share a room with Lego master Jake. Also we felt bad that Jake would have to hear Thomas' swimming alarm go off every morning at 5:30. So we decided to turn my old craft room/Kevin's office into a new room for Thomas. The room was once a kitchen so we had to tear out some cabinets, left some in for his bookcase and took out a sink and stove. We have been working on it for a while , doing a little at a time and we finally moved him into it yesterday! He is pretty excited. We are still trying to figure out how to make the closet and we are in need of a dresser but he is at least sleeping in there and most of his stuff is out of Mitch's room so I can start getting that ready for him to come home.
Thanks to my super incredible awesome dad for coming up from St. G to help out with the room. We could NEVER have done it without him!!!!

Homerun, solar eclipse, swim meet and hiking

Wow this week has been a busy one. Of course we are always super excited to have a baseball game but lately our little team has been struggling. Jacob has been in a bit of a batting slump and was VERY frustrated but last game he was first at bat and the first pitch he hit a homerun! He ws sooo excited, he hit the ball the other two times up to bat as well an got a double and a triple. Our team lost again but I think Jake's confidence at the plate is back so this weeks game should be fun! Thomas had a swim meet in Logan and so we spent the weekend freezing beside the outdoor pool. He did great, he won 4 out of 6 events and got his best time in a couple. He starts long course training this week so to do that we his first long course meet with no long course training is awesome.
The other day his coach made him swim a 5000 which is 3 1/2 miles. He got out of the pool and his coach told him that he better go home and get a good nights rest because he was going to swim it again in the morning and he was going to do it in under an hour. Thomas was not thrilled about this, in fact he was down right angry. But, he got himself up at 5 a.m and drove to the pool and swam it again and h did it in under an hour. So he swam 7 miles in less than 24 hours. Ouch!
Last Sunday Maddi helped Jake make a solar eclipse box so he could see the eclipse. We didn't think it would work but they got it to. Wow college kids and 4th graders are so smart.
Today was Memorial day and so we took the family on a hike, it was really fun and we had a picnic after. Only 4 more days of school. I know some mom's hate the end of school but I can't wait for it to be done! I love having the kids home. I love summer!!!! I don't want to wish the summer away but I can't wait for August 15th!!!
Also, Mitch was transferred and he will be emailing on Saturdays now so if you read his blog, watch for his updates on Saturdays now.

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100

The countdown begins! 100 days from now Elder Sheridan will be home! HOORAY!!!!!

Pinewood Derby

After the baseball game we ran to the Pinewood Derby. Jacob and Kevin worked on his car in the little time in between school, baseball practices and games. We were surprised that his car did so well. He raced 4 times and won one and came in second all the other races. We seem to get better with each kid we have. I told Kevin too bad we didn't have another kid because by the time we got to that kid we could win the whole thing ha ha . I am not a fan of scouts ( Pack meetings are THE worst because parents just let their kids run wild and it makes me insane!!!!!!) and with the sports schedule it is hard to make it every week , but this was a fun night and Jacob loved making the car and racing it.