DOS!

Wow, I can hardly believe we are down to only 2 months! Only 4 weeks! Only 60 days! I am SO excited I can hardly stand it! 60 more days and Elder Mitch will be home, I can't wait to hug him and see his cute face and make him chocolate chip cookies! More details to come but he will be giving his homecoming talk on Aug. 19th for sure ( great birthday present for Maddi) . Wahoo!

Tough Loss

Jakes little team played their last game tonight. It was a heartbreaker. We finished the season in first place, We had an awesome season, winning most games by a lot. The end of year tournament started this week and tonight they lost, it was a hard loss because we went in first and were expected to win it all, but what a fun season this has been.
Jacob had an awesome home run, had great plays in the field and missed hitting the ball over the outfield fence by a few inches. He had the chance to play every position and even caught a bit this year. The kids on the team improved so much and the coach was awesome (Kevin) and the assistant coached were awesome too. It was also so much fun for Jake to have a few of his best buddies on the team and to make a few new ones.
I would be sad right now to see it all end but luckily we move on to All Stars. Since our team finished first this season, Coach Kevin got to choose if he wanted to coach All Stars and of course he does! So tomorrow we start fresh with a brand new team and brand new uniforms and another month of baseball. I love it!

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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