"Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride." Gordon B. Hinckley

Aug 25, 2011

Swimming lessons

We love swimming lessons! I took tons and tons of pictures to capture the memories of this year! Every summer the kids ask me all the time when swimming lessons is going to start. We have been going to the same place with the same friends for years and the kids have a blast and they learn so much every year. The swim classes are small and the kids practically get private lessons. This year Maddy and Kynzee learned how to dive and I just have to say they are pretty good little divers now. They can swim all on their own with no help, I love that feeling! Kenna learned a lot as well and next year she gets to move up to the level the older girls were in, I just can’t imagine her learning how to dive next year.  And little Jaxon, well he just tried to keep himself out of trouble while the girls were swimming. What a fun year we had! Sad to see it come to an end.

Here they all are…Maddy, Skyler, Kynzee, Kenlee, Kenne, Mack ( Jaxon and Call were not in the picture!! )Thats a lot of kids in swimming lessons.

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These two sisters had so much fun being in the same class together!IMG_0882

My little girls are getting so big!

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Daddy even got to come and watch one day and the girls were so excited!

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Maddy, Skyler, Kynzee and Kenlee with their swim teacher down in the deep end. The girls learned to love the deep end very quickly.

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These girls are so cute and they play so well with each other!!

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Maddy

 

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Kynzee

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Kenna

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Last but not least Jaxon

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Grandma came and watched the girls swim and played with Jaxon, he sure loves Grandma.

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There is a little hill right by the pool and all the other little kids that were younger siblings to kids swimming would play at the bottom of this hill. Not my little boy, he was too scared to go down that hill. It was funny to watch him want to go down so bad but he would just stay there at the top and watch.

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My friends little boy “Call”

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My sister and her sweet baby Kolby even came to watch one day.

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And this has to be my favorite picture of all. My friend and her little boy “Mack”. Poor Mack did not like swimming lessons very well, she had to work really hard to get him to go in the water everyday. Well this picture says it perfectly. He is looking at his Mommy and I am sure he is thinking “O Mommy do I have to jump off this diving board?” And she is looking at him like “Yes son you can do it”. I love this little boy, he is so sweet and tender hearted.

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1 comment:

Lynn said...

You are such a great mom. One of my biggest regrets is not being able to get my kids to go far in swimming lessons. I have one married daughter who is afraid of water and to this day doesn't know how to swim. She is afraid that she won't be able to get her own daughter to swim when the time comes. ; (

LOVE your girls' swimsuits by the way. They have so many CUTE ones.