Birthdays

Kira turned 12 this month.  She is a good sister to Hanna, rides her bike to school, excels at diving, and spends time reading.  

Hanna doing her favorite thing, watching youtube.  

Tyler had some band thingy on Saturday.

For some reason I don't have any pictures of Blake opening his presents.  He got a Selmer alto sax and some candy.  He was going to have a bowling birthday party but it's been postponed because of bad behavior.  Parker got a tree swing and a wubble ball.  

Kira had her party on Saturday.  Pizza, hot tubbing, and outdoor fire.  Kids had a great time.  

 

de la Salle invitational

Scott had his de la Salle invitational meet.  He swam for Northgate.  Some of his Aquabear teammates swam for different schools.  

200 free in 1:43.xx

Strong man getting psyched for the race

Andrew is in the center.  I liked this picture because I got a bonus grimace from Scott.  Must have been cheering on his relay.  

Tom was Heidi's Aquabears and Northgate coach when Heidi was young.  He claims that he quit because she gave him attitude.  

The 400 free relay came down to Northgate vs. de la Salle.  

Scott's split was okay.  Not his best time.  He was against Zach, who had a better split.

The last leg came down to Andrew vs. Tommy.  Everyone was screaming because it was so close.  Andrew got majorly dragged on by his club friend Tommy and they overtook Andrew.  Tommy went a 44.5 and Andrew a 45.5 but Andrew overtook him and their relay won by four hundredths.  This is the shot of everyone looking at the scoreboard.  

 

But wait!  De la Salle got disqualified for a false start!   Some were arguing that the blocks registered 0.0 even though the officials and coaches saw a false start.  Because of the false start, Northgate won that relay.  de la Salle still won the meet by 24 points.  It will be fun at Northcoast.  Heidi liked seeing all of her friends from the various teams she's coached.  I liked using my big camera.  I shoot Scott's friends and Scott texts them the pictures.  For North Coast Sectionals I'm going to get a little badge with Nitroblue Photography Services and an orange vest and be a "pro" photographer.  Okay, bye.  

Walnut Creek Masters vs. Aquabears swim meet

Today was the Walnut Creek Masters vs. Aquabears swim meet.  The old against the young.  It was my first swim meet ever.  Here's Heidi on the blocks getting ready for the 200 free.  She went 2:10.  

Heidi and Scott swam against each other in the 100 IM.  Scott gave himself a two second handicap by calling out from the blocks, after the buzzer, "Thousand one, thousand two."  

My best shot of his butterfly was not the best but he and Heidi were in adjacent lanes and I was trying to photograph both.  

Mike and Steve, my coaches, who helped me reach my goal of 1:09 in the 100 free.  I went 1:09.42

Scott, Heidi and Jacob

Hanna was a good sport.  She played at the park the whole time with Parker and Blake.  

pot luck brunch.  Heidi made an egg casserole which was pretty tasty.  

 

New patio furniture!

Okay, bye