It has been a fun season of swimming on Saturday mornings with Daddy, aka, Beach Whale swim team. He has run fun practice meets for the kids and given out ribbons for their times/PRs. The last practice of the year ended with a 500 yard free style race and fun drills where the kids swam with one arm or leg in groups of 4 or in trains of 6. It was such a special gift to be able to run Saturday morning swim practices.
Daddy had to leave to Florida to take care of Gpa Paul. He had a productive visit and hopefully, Gpa Paul will be motivated to get strong again.
Here is Daddy reading to Rubix before he left for his red eye on Saturday night, 10 days ago.
On Sunday last week we had the biggest storm with the highest wind speeds and rain fall of the year. It was a little scary, having not seen winds and rain like that in such a long time. We went out for a walk in the "calm" of the storm. It took us 50 minutes to walk 2 miles because of the 30 mph winds at times. We loved seeing water flowing in our creeks and .....
Beautiful rainbows that filled the sky!
It may have been the same 3 rainbows, but they seemed to be in different locations.
We even harvested our last pumpkin in the rain.
Our little pumpkin patch!
On Friday the kids were able to wear their costumes to school. This was a tough year to get the kids to decide what they wanted to be. After much contemplation Rubix and Phoenix decided on vampires and Axel created his Pi napple shirt and mask.
Axel has been running again, once a week, for the past month. He ran his best mile of 6:57 and then 10 minutes later did a 400 yard dash with his buddy Joel. Amazingly he was able to PR at 1:19, just one second behind Joel! I was shocked at his effort and ability to push himself on already tired legs.
Saturday night we carved pumpkins and watched Hotel Transylvania.
It is exciting to see the kids able to do more on their own (except Rubix) who I did not allow him to use a knife.
Here are the kids all ready to go trick or treating yesterday with their pumpkins in front of them. Rubix's monster was adorable. Axel's pineapple was so fitting with his costume and Phoenix's cat was surprisingly really good. I was impressed at her artistic ability, even with a pumpkin!
We spent the evening with the Gunnions. The kids managed 2 hours of trick or treating and we were able to go to the neighborhood of the house we bought and say hello to our renters.
I couldn't pass up this cute picture of Axel!
Today we managed to sort our candy and pick out a few to save and enjoy. The rest go to the military men and women through a donation that Harker does every year.
The kids are trying out for different swim teams over the next few weeks and they are deciding on what swim team they want to join. We will see which one they decide and if all of them or just one or two of them decide to take the next step in their swimming journey. They did well at their first try outs tonight. More to come.....
