Keeping busy this summer

 The kids filled up our short 7 week summer with their activities. Rachel worked at Kidco pretty much every day 12-6pm. 

Ryan and Megan both did swim team and really enjoyed it, and were both really fast. 

Megan also did synchronized swimming this summer. At the skills meet she won first place! 

Purple Heart had a great synchro team this year, all kids we know from Desert Willow.

Between swim team at 8-9am and synchro 12-1pm, and changing clothes and chores and lunch, that didn't really leave much time for outings during the summer, but it did set up a pretty firm routine.

Annie had 2 weeks of theater camp and played one of the knights of the round table in The Sword and the Stone. She had fun with all her theater friends.

The following week she went to cooking camp every morning, and hosted a craft camp at our house 3 afternoons, in order to earn some money. 

She also squeezed in her Health final (after finishing a semester's worth of work in the course of about 3 1/2 weeks), and made big progress on her ASL class over the summer.

Grandpa donated lots of his beads and charms and junk to the girls to sort through, and they picked out what they thought they might use in their jewelry making endeavors before returning the remainder. 

As the summer wrapped up, we got to see Megan and her synchro team perform How Bad Can I Be from the Lorax at the watershow. They got the award for having the best formations. 

Afterwards we went to celebrate at Frost Gelato with the team. Megan had a good time, but next year she's thinking she may stick with only swim team so she isn't quite as busy and has a little more down time. 

The first week of school, swim team practice was moved to the afternoon, then that Saturday was the city championships. Ryan and Megan both did really well at the championships. 

Megan came in first in butterfly, backstroke and freestyle, and Ryan came in 3rd in fly and freestyle and 2nd in breast and backstroke, though they didn't get medals for all those races, since they have a limit of how many races you can officially swim in, so they each had one race that was an "exhibition race." Megan also swam in 2 relays and did amazing on her leg of the relays, but the others on her relay weren't as fast so they came in 2nd and 3rd.