Pure Awesomeness

James went to Cub Scout Twilight camp last week and loved it! As he said, "This is pure awesomeness. I just love, LOVE scout camp." In our area the cub scouts have twilight camp in the evenings from 5 to 9 although it's still 95 degrees most of the camp. He was great about drinking lots of water though. He loved archery best, but had a great time doing everything...water slides, weaving, posters, leather work, singing, the skit, buying plastic ninjas at the trading post. He didn't love bb guns, but by the last day was able to hit the paper so they were more fun. 3 other boys from our ward attended so he had some friends there. James looked so old when I picked him up that first night and brought him home. Can't believe he is already old enough to do cub scouts!

Pflugerville Piranhas...Swim Pfast

The boys are doing swim team this year and it's been so much fun. They are both swimming great and loving it and we spend a lot of time at the pool. Unfortunately Hannah, Hyrum, and I are sweating to death watching practice, but we survive. And lots of days we head to our pool afterwards to all swim.

The team, Pflugerville Piranhas, has had four meets so far and the boys are improving and enjoying. I'm so happy my boys love to swim because I love hanging out at the pool. 2 hours for practice every day, one hour each. The coaches are great. And meets are about 6 hours on Saturdays...we have to be at the pool by 6 am!

James' favorite stroke is breaststroke and he does a great job with it. A lot of the boys his age get disqualified for getting the stroke wrong but he has always nailed it. And he likes doing freestyle as well. All of his times have improved from the beginning of the season so he has done wonderful! And he can breath to the side while swimming now which is great.

Matthias loves to swim butterfly and does great with it, always coming in top 3. His age group has less competition since he swims 6 and unders but he is fast. He has gotten really fast in butterfly (close to invitational time) and freestyle. And today he swam breaststroke without getting disqualified...first 6 and under boy on our team to do so.

And they both just look so cute in their team suits, swim caps and goggles! =]

One of these boys looks just like the other...

Seriously this is one picture of Matthias and one of Hyrum. I doubled checked to make sure I didn't accidentally post two pictures of Hyrum, but the first picture was taken in 2007 so it's really Matthias. Same blue vein at the top of the nose, same mouth shape, same chubby cheeks, same smile, same stare, same clothes.

Happy Harvey Day

For Happy Harvey Day this year we made Turtle cookies (since our family mascot is the box turtle). Really amazing chocolate chip cookies with pecans pressed in the tops while still warm, then drizzled with ganache and caramel sauce. Mmmm. They were amazing. We also went swimming of course and had a yummy dinner. We love our Happy Harveys!

End of School

Class parties for both the boys...at Jumpoline for Matthias and an over the top Luau at the school for James. Then kindergarten graduation and awards ceremony. Lots of fun in Kinder and 2nd!

Ms. Aday, the literacy teacher. We loved her and will miss her next year!

Coach Rembish who the boys loved!

Getting diploma from Ms. Hogberg. Such a perfect kindergarten teacher. 

With James Townsend!