Swim Lessons

Until now, the kids have never had any swim lessons. When they were little, Kyle was traveling all the time so I didn't have a parent for each kid. Then last summer we moved. I didn't want to do the swim lessons during the summer that are a few weeks and then we have no where to practice and they "lose" it all. There is an Emler Swim School near our house that is indoors and has a "free swim" pool that we can use anytime we want as long as they are enrolled. Every Tuesday until January we go for 30 minutes.

This past Tuesday was their first lesson and they were so pumped! Until the teacher got them in the water...crying ensued soon after, which made the other boy in the class start crying as well. Awesome. However there was a huge turn around made when M&M'S were introduced, and by the time they were done (30 minutes goes by fast!), they were crying again because they didn't want to leave. This is the only picture I got, they were "out on the island waiting to get coconuts".



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Last weeks of summer

We spent our last weeks of summer being pretty busy! We headed out to Midland the last weekend in August...our first time out there since Christmas! That's the longest it has ever been since I started dating Kyle 6.5 years ago. Our trip was bittersweet because we were bringing Carter home, but also had to head to Lubbock to attend Kyle's grandfather's funeral. We were all sad that Gramps passed, but we know that he is up in Heaven with Kyle's dad (his son) playing golf and watching down on us. Two days after we returned from Lubbock the kids and I headed back down to my parents' house for one last summer hurrah. We swam, and swam, rode the mule, and swam some more. THe next weekend, Kyle and I went on a double date with Aunt Nikki and Uncle David. We shared a sitter and they just spent the night with us. We went to a yummy tapas restaurant and had a fantastic time. We definitely need to do that more often. The twins are moving up to the 3's class tomorrow and they are very excited. Just about all their friends are moving up as well as one of their teachers, so they are excited to be on the 'big kid" side of their school. I'm gearing up for my first day back with students tomorrow. The kids start swim lessons this week too, so a post on that will be coming!

Costa Rica

We were so thankful to be able to go back to Costa Rica this summer (last summer was just way too busy). We went for a week in July and had a nice, relaxing vacation. This trip was ten times better than the one two years ago, mainly because the twins were older. Our days pretty much went like this: walk on the beach, breakfast, swimming at the condo, lunch, nap, go down to the beach club and swim, dinner, bed. The kids LOVED the beach and swimming. They were in a great mood pretty much the whole time, which made everyone else in a good mood too. :) We (Kyle, twins, Carter, and myself) stayed in my mother-in-law's condo, while she rented another condo across the pool for her, Nikki, David, little Lincoln, and her best friend Vicki stayed. It was really nice having our "own space". One day Kyle, Carter, and David went fishing and David caught a big Wahoo...which we made into fish tacos and fresh ceviche...delicious! Another day we had a "girls trip" (minus Presley) where we went on a catamaran to a remote beach and snorkeled/swam, then came back and watched the sunset as we cruised. It was breathtaking! We saw a group of dolphins and they swam right up next to the boat. Between the endless supply of well-made drinks, the freshly made guacamole, and the wonderful company...it was an amazing time!