Living Orange: June 2015

Monday, June 29, 2015

Report Card

Here is Carter's report card from the end of the kindergarten. He had a great year and learned so much! I'm still trying to catch up on my end-of-the-school-year posts!!!

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Happy birthday to our awesome 5-year-old!!! You are silly and hilarious, loving and sweet, and live life showing 110% of your emotions (good and bad). We love you so much and are excited to see what you accomplish in the next year of your life!

Friday, June 26, 2015

Pool Love

This little man loves the water!!!

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Swim Meet vs. Longview Sea Dragons

Carter had a swim meet again the Longview Rec Center on Tuesday. This was the first time he competed in a home meet at the ISC (Indoor Sports Complex). The pool where Carter's team practices is not great for swim meets so they use the indoor pool at another Williamson County Rec Center.

Carter had an amazing meet!!!

They switched up the order of the events a little bit for this meet and the freestyle relay was first. Carter's team got second and even beat one of the other teams finally! (They technically also beat a team in their first meet but only because that team DQ'd).

Carter's second race was the 25 yard freestyle.

He finished in second place with a time of 33.33. He took more than 10 seconds off his time and missed first place by 2 seconds.

Carter's third race was the 25 yard backstroke.

He finished in third place with a time of 36.69. He took more than 3 seconds off this time and missed first place by less than 1 second. I thought he might win that race but he glided for a bit at the end of the race instead of finishing strong. I think Carter thought he was going to win too and was super disappointed after the race. He told Brian that his coach told him before that once he sees the flags overhead that he should take 12 more strokes which is exactly what he did. Unfortunately he needed more strokes and that meant he lost a bit of time. Carter remembers everything a teacher/coach tells him and tries to follow those instructions exactly. He is our rule follower! Brian was able to come for Carter's two individual races and gave Carter a great pep talk that lifted his spirits.

Tonight I put together Carter's scrapbook page with his ribbons ...

Carter has one more regular season meet and then the county-wide championship meet.

Front Teeth

One front tooth has finally finished breaking through ...

Let's hope the other one hurries up and does the same soon!!!

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Swim Team Photos

Carter's swim team had a team party tonight at the pool. They took their team photo and individual shots at the start of the party. The very nice photographer didn't mind us moms taking our own photos (especially since his speciality is underwater individual pictures of the kids). I'm over spending money on sports photos - we have purchased too many already - so here are the ones I took myself!

Carter is on the front near, third from the right ...

Carter is still loving swim team and improving a lot each week!

Luke's Birthday Party

Rylan went to Luke's birthday party a couple of weeks ago. His parents had a photographer taking pictures at the party and Lynn was sweet enough to sent me some of the photos tonight.

Rylan's 5th Birthday Party - The Details

We had Rylan's fifth birthday party at the house on Saturday (June 20th). This year Rylan chose Star Wars as his theme. Luckily that is a pretty easy and fun theme to plan a party around!

INVITATIONS / THANK YOU NOTES

I made both the invitations and thank you notes this year. I designed the thank you notes so Rylan would have to write some parts of them this year.

DECORATIONS

I put this sign on the front door ...

I always make a banner for birthday parties to match the theme. This one took a long time with the three layers of pennants but turned out pretty good.