Family Vacation

We spent a day in Sisters, OR while we were on our trip to Bend the first week in June. We found this great picture spot to capture the true color of our girls. They really should be in jail for being so cute, but we had a great time. We were able to spend the vacation with my parents and sister as well, so all in all it was a great time.

Father's Day

Okay, here they are being cute, but the other picture is more their true nature.

Father's Day

Well I have to say I think I am married to the best man ever. I know some of you would argue, but John is the best father and husband a person could ask for.

I can't believe that in a couple of weeks we are going to celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary. It seems like just yesterday we were dating in youth group.

Here is a picture of my best guy, with my great girls. Enjoy!

The house is coming along....

As many of you know we bought a grange in Naches. This is an older building from 1920 that was used by farmers for their co-op. They had dances, dinners and all sorts of things in these buildings. Pete, Betty, John and I have put a lot of sweat and tears into this place and now we are working on another project. We are re-siding the house. Just to give you and idea of the scope of it....each side is 65 ft long. We have completed one side, but there is another and the front to do still. Here is a picture of one side being done. I will go out today and take a picture of the completed side. I also painted yesterday so we know what color the house will be. I will include a picture of that as well.

Swim meet at Naches

We had our first home meet yesterday against Toppenish. The girls did great!!!

Shelby swam all four strokes under one minute each. She did the 25 m freestyle in under 30 seconds. The first time she swam this stroke last year by herself it took her 3 min and 47 seconds. This is an amazing difference and she is doing great!

Lexi swam two relays, all four strokes, and the individual medley relay (one lap of each of the four strokes). She did great! She was so tired by the end but still pushed through and did the IM.

John and I were timers for the meet and it was fun to have the girls both able to swim in the lane we were timing. It gave us a great view of each one of their swims.

Grandpa DeVore was able to attend and he noticed the significant difference from last year in the speed the girls were swimming.

We have two meets a week until the end of July. I won't post every detail, but it is so much fun and we are really having a great time.

Swim Meet Against Prosser

The girls had their first swim meet of the season against Prosser. They have a 40 meter pool and the girls are used to swimming in our 25 meter pool. It was a challenge, but they did great.

They each swam all four strokes (butterfly, breast, back, and freestyle) without being disqualified. This is something they were unable to do last year. Lexi swam in both the medley relay and the freestyle relay. Shelby was unable to because of her age.

I took some pictures and am hoping to get them on later in the week, but I have not downloaded the pictures in a while, so there are quite a few.

We have our first home meet tonight against Toppenish. They are a big club, so it could be quite late before we get home.

GO NACHES BARRACUDAS!!!

Shelby's year in Awana

Shelby was in Sparks this year in Awana. She completed her second book and had a lot of fun playing games and talking with her friends. Shelby participated in Awana games this year and our team took 2nd place. She loved the Sparkie Crawl which is a game that has 40 kids moving across the floor at one time. As a mom, it is the scariest game to watch. You can see the collisions waiting to happen.

Lexi's Awana year

This year Lexi moved into Truth & Training (T&T) in Awana. She finished her first book with a Rave Review. This means that she completed all the sections including all of the extra credit sections. The last section was reciting the entire book in one sitting. She did this with no assistance and did a fabulous job.

She participated in the Awana Grand Prix in April. Lexi's car was a piece of pizza. She won 2nd place in "non-car" design and 4th in speed. This was a great showing for the first attempt. She has three more years to come up with more great ideas.

Our 1st blog attempt

Hello everyone! We are finally joining the world of bloggers and are attempting to get the site up and running. Lexi and I are sitting here trying to make it all work and it is so much fun to goof around with. We are going to post some highlights of our year in seperate blogs so you can see what we have been doing. Thanks for understanding we are new at this.....please be patient as we learn the ropes.

Lynn