That's it for tonight. We got home from visiting Erik in Hawaii on Monday night and I have a ton of pictures I need to go through and cameras of the kids' to get developed to share too. Promise to get it done before school starts! Stay tuned.

Swim Awards

Found somemore pictures of swim for ya'll. This is the pool that Mads practiced in for the summer and this is her coach...Katie.

Swim Team

So, many of you will not be surprised that the only pictures of swim team that I got this year were at the very last meet. Be that as it may....I got pictures! Madalyn did a fabulous job with swim this summer. It was the first time she had ever been on a team and she hasn't ever had formal swimming lessons. She worked hard and earned the "most improved swimmer" award in her age group which consisted of about 20 girls. She had the option of starting basketball this fall with some friends from church or doing swim team for the winter and she chose to swim. For winter team she has to try out with SwimAtlanta and we do that on Tuesday so we will keep you posted. The girl next to Mads is her good friend Victoria Botz. Her family moved to GA the same time we did and our families have become good friends. Peeking behind is pesky little sister Maryn, who missed out on swim team this year because of a broken left arm. She landed on her wrists while jumping out of a swing and broke her radius all the way through just below the wrist. She wore a cast for 6 weeks and is supposed to be in a brace for 12 more weeks. Luckily about 3 weeks into it all we as able to get a cast just below her elbow and it was waterproof. It made our summer much more bearable. She had an awesome cast that was 3 different colors...very cool...but she wouldn't let me take a picture of it. I should of sneeked one in the night but I think Em has a glimpse of it on one of her pictures.

Fireworks

Uncle Charles entertained us for several nights with fireworks spectacular.

The Grants

~Emily and Charles and thier sweet babies~

My Girls

So, just in case you hadn't noticed...the girls had thier hair CHOPPED. A mom's got to pick her battles and this is one it was okay to loose because hair will grow back. Madalyn has been bugging me for about a year to cut her hair and so I gave in and then OF COURSE Maryn had to follow suit. They both got stacked bobs and they do look cute. Maryn did Locks of Love and donated 10 1/2 inches of her hair for wigs. It takes something like 3000 hairs to make one wig. Mads didn't quite have enough for LOL but wanted to cut her hair anyway. Both the girls have decided that having short hair isn't as fun as they thought and are trying to grow it out again.

My Guys

Erik and McKay at the Braves game. Erik, having been raised by goodly parents in WASHINGTON, has been a Seattle Mariners fan all his life. When we moved to the southeast he graciously accepted a team on the other side of the Mississippi to cheer for. It was not the Braves. However, he bought (and wore) a Braves jersery with the rest of us and we all had a great time.

God Bless America

I just thought this was a great picture. I love our flag!

Dance, Maryn, Dance!

Those of you who know Uncle Charles know that he love, love, loves the Atlanta Braves. While the Grants were visiting us in Georgia we were able to attend a game on the 4th of July. Those of you who know our Maryn Elizabeth also know that she has no fear or anyone or anything and loves to sing and dance....SO...when an invitation to dance with the girls at the stadium presented itself Maryn DANCED! I was unable to see the actual event because when we got to the stadium Madalyn got heat stroke and needed to go to the first aid station for a bit and I was with her. Not to worry though, by about the 4th inning Mads was cooled off, rehydrated and ready for fun!

Mommy, When can we go fishing!

OK ya'll! I'm starting back at the beginning of the pictures on my camera....so bare with me. We're all on Hawaii time still and last night Madalyn was up until 2:00 A.M.!!!! So, I'm hoping to make some progress on the blog. One of the families in our ward owns this fresh water pond in the middle of suburban Atlanta. McKay asks me all the time when we can go fishing and finally I gave in and took him to this little place. We got lucky and one of the regulars there took pity on me and gave the kids "fishing lessons." We played catch and release for about an hour and the kids had a blast.