Feeling Hot, Hot, HOT!!!

Ok, summer has arrived. G-ma and G-pa Faurschou came to visit this weekend, and the weather was just perfect. As soon as they left, the heatwave came. We went to Hermann Park and let the boys play in the Splash Pad, and we gave Parker a Faux-Hawk, after he played in the water. He had his first taste of a Snow-cone, as well. He really enjoyed it.

Parker, Pre-Fauxhawk

Parker, Post-Fauxhawk

G-ma and G-pa Faurschou and the boys.

Swim Team

Here's Brandt doing his 25 YD Freestyle, we still need to work on his diving. Christian is sitting crossedlegged in the lane next to him, he was in the next heat.

We had our first official meet today, against the team we were on last year, Colony Creek Mariners. We are so proud of our boys, they both swam very well. Christian's relay team took first place for their age group, Brandt's took 3rd (There were only 3 teams to begin with, so everyone was walking away with a ribbon.) Christian took 3rd place overall for his freestyle, and 1st for his backstroke. G-ma and G-pa Faurschou were lucky enough to be with us today to see them swim.

Christian and friends filling time between events.

Christian doing his Backstroke, he swam a 29.58 overall, he came in 1st place for his age group.

Long Days

Let me just tell you it's been a long couple of days. The boy's summer swim team started the end of April and that's almost every night but Sundays and Mondays, along with that I'm in charge of getting all the drinks donated for the team for our meets on Saturdays. Also, I volunteer for Christian's and Brandt's school and with the end of the year coming around the corner, there is alot of activites going on. My new church calling has also been keeping me busy, I was recently called as the Compassionate Serivce Leader in our Ward, and that has kept me on my toes! And to top it all off we've had sick kids for the past two weeks, with fever's of 102! So can we say it's just been a little crazy? Most of you may not know that Jared is gone from 8:30AM until 11:00PM, so I do alot of things solo around here. Well, good thing I am very blessed to stay home with my children and have the opportunity to get involed in a lot things. It's better than working! (well most of the time)

Brandt's first swim meet, Christian was @ home sick, so he missed the first swim meet of the year. Brandt said it was his best day ever, he loved the swim meets, but not getting up so early. (6:30AM)

I don't know what to say...

You might want to stop the music, and Turn up the speakers for this one.

The Great Outdoors...

Parker Enjoying the Sun

We were invited to go camping with our friends this past weekend, though we weren't able to spend the night, we spent saturday with them. We went to Somerville Lake, which is about an hour and half north of Houston. The Boys had fun Swimming and Hiking.

Brandt out on the lake.
Christian's First attempt @ Smores
Jen and Parker,
Somerville Lake, Somerville, TX 2008

At night we made Smores, and the boys loved 'em. They were saddened when we had to leave, and Christian began to cry because he said "we're never going to go camping again." Though Jen and I both decided that we're going to buy a pop-up trailer because we had so much fun.