Our Crazy Summer

I know it has been quite awhile since I have put anything in here.  We have just been really busy and any free time I have is used for breathing.  Summer is almost over which makes me very sad :(
Here is what we have been up to the last couple months.....
                In June we took a trip to Texas to visit the Boring Bunch....

  .......Donald finished his Eagle Project (so glad that is all over)....

 And Kati and I did our first Mud Run!

                                                                               Love that gal!
 We also said "see you soon" to Whitney (our oldest niece) who is now in the Navy.

 In July we hung out in San Diego a little (I think this picture is hilarious.  Donald was so proud of the stink he made and everyone was hiding from it.)......

                                                              .........And then spent a week at Junior Olympics

 Here is our JO team......

                                                                              ........Warm ups

 Getting ready for the 200 Breast.........

 ............Donald and Cisco (very cool kid)

                                                                                 ......And with Coach Jeff

 (I think this is the coolest picture I have ever taken.  I love my new lens)............

                                           ............13-14 Relay Team.........

Donald was maxed out on his individual events.  They only allow you to swim 6 individuals, but he qualified in 11.  He even made it to finals in his 100 Breast and 200 Breast.  His relay team (see just above) swam 5 relays and got new team records in four of them.  The fifth one they missed by 0.2 seconds.  They took 4th, 5th, 6th and two 7th places home, and that is out of over 40 teams.

We have had a great summer, it is sad to see it come to an end.

Since I haven't posted for so long I should include a little update.  After my last post we went to Winter Age Group Invitations in Las Vegas.  Donald had tried out for the high school swim team a couple days before that.  His school has a very good aquatics program so it is really competitive and hard to make the varsity team.  They posted the teams when we were in Las Vegas and one of Donald's friends emailed him a picture of the list.  He made Varsity as a Freshman..so exciting!  The season was great, he dropped lots of time and got his letter.  Now we just need to get him his jacket.  He made it to league finals individually and their team (which was undefeated all year, including invitational tournaments) won the whole thing.  That was so much fun! That was pretty much our lives from December to May.  High school consumes your life as a parent.

This upcoming school year I will be teaching Biology, Chemistry, Earth science and Physics (yes, all 4 at the same time) at River Springs High School in Hemet as well as my online teaching.  I am also the apparel manager for Donald's high school team and the score board operator.  Also Donald is continuing on with his honors and AP classes plus Choir so I am not really sure that I will be alive by next May.  Hopefully I can find a few stray minutes to post updates, it really is fun to look back at how things change.