California McMillans

The swim season is winding down.  Heidi is grateful.  I feel like it was a good season.  Tyler and Kira were gone a lot and swam okay for how much they practiced.  Blake struggled with his attitude/depression/anxiety and his swimming suffered.  He felt like if he wasn't on the A relay, then why swim at all?  I tried telling him that swimming has been the best therapy for my depression and anxiety but he wasn't having any of it.  In the end, Blake made county and felt good about that.  Parker didn't swim much; he preferred to just play at the pool with his friends.  His technique was not awesome and would not take stroke advice.   Hanna was the cutest.  She always swam with a smile.  The older kids on the team love to fawn over her, do her hair, ask her about her times, and it's cute.  Here she is right before the 25 butterfly.   Scott had a sectionals meet in Roseville with the Aquabears.  He got 8th in the 50 meter free (24.22), 3rd in the 4x100 free relay (52.5 split)

Kira and Tyler left to the east coast for the annual McMillan family reunion, a 10 day church history tour guided by John Peterson.  We opted to stay behind because we did not think Parker would survive the bus ride, and we did not think the others would survive with Parker on board.   We instead had a mini-vacation, starting with some work at Vecna's (The Clayton property).  Heidi purchased the windows while the kids and I got donuts for good grades.  Then we ran the RC cars at Vecna's the rest of the afternoon.   On Friday we left for Big Trees in Calaveras county.  Last time we went was 2014 and I thought the kids would enjoy it but Blake fought with Parker and Hanna quite a bit and it was not enjoyable.  The trees are impressive, though.   The kids enjoyed the rest of the afternoon at Beaver Creek.   On Saturday we went to Pine Crest.  I thought it would be fun to run the RC boats but it was packed, packed, packed, and we couldn't do it.  People were blaring their music