We're tired...

We had such a fun, busy Labor Day weekend...Jake's sister Jenn was in town with her family so it was party party starting Friday night with Strawberry Shortcake and Sierra and Kate's sleepover, Saturday swimming and burrito bar, Sunday Jenn's homemade cinnamon rolls and another Sierra and Kate sleepover, Monday breakfast of Champions :) at the ward breakfast (Ashton and I rode bikes to the park and back home, that was the highlight, FUN FUN!)BBQ and swimming at Nana and Papa's for lunch and then swimming and BBQ at Grammy's for dinner.
Today back to school and oh man it was not very good. Sierra was fine and then the mean girl just approached her to ask her if she felt ok today and Sierra started crying, then the mean girl proceeded to rub her back (huh?) Anyway, got her to class in tears but handling it. Then back down to Ashton in his class and I found him in tears. He cried, but trying to be brave. I sat with him while his class passed the ball and said good morning to each other and then told the class what "they did this weekend". Ashton told his class that he "played with his cousins". Then I needed to leave and he cried. I quickly got out of there because I felt like sticking around wasn't helping and I teared up too. I knew this day would come when it was really sad for me. :( His teacher told me when I picked him up that he only cried for 30 sec. to 1 min. and then he was fine the rest of the day. :)
I just have to remind myself "things will get better!"
Sierra ended up having a great day and we even put in an application for her to be in the new lds movie...here is one of her headshots. :)

She started CAC swimming today too!
In 'n Out for dinner
Mutual (Camp activity, slide show)with kids because Jake had a softball practice
She fell asleep so so fast tonight! :)

Coach's Award!

The Coach's award goes to a girl that is at practice everyday. She is a great swimmer. She always does her best. She is always smiling. She makes us laugh...SIERRA YOUNG!

applause YAY!

IM

Today, Waves vs. Dolphins
My Si did her usual races, she swam breaststroke in the medley relay and swam individual breaststroke and freestyle in the freestyle relay. But today the coaches had her try something new. She swam the IM (Individual Medley). The IM is 4 laps, one lap of each stroke.

She was nervous...

Swimmers up, take your mark...Butterfly

BackstrokeBreaststroke
Freestyle

Problem...(don't make it known to her that I put this on the blog) When she did her turn from breaststroke to freestyle she did not do a two hand touch. I saw it and I looked to the stroke and turn judges and I could tell they saw it and I said right out loud to Jake and Janelle,"oh no, she is DQ'd." Her coach said to her as she was getting out of the water, "great race, just remember two hand touch after breaststroke." She didn't seem upset, I went to her and told her what a great job she did. She said, "mommy I forgot my two hand touch." I said, "I know it's ok." She then asked me, "was I disqualified because I didn't touch with two hands?" I looked at her and smiled, brought tears to my eyes that she could not see because I was wearing my sunglasses and shook my head yes. Instantly there were tears in her eyes. My poor baby. I told her to come and sit with me and I held her on my lap and told her how proud I am and gave her lots of kisses. I told her that it was just a mistake and we learn from our mistakes. That was a hard race. She was so tired. SHE DID IT! I am so so proud of her! There were 4 racers and she came in 3rd. She dropped 13 sec. from her time too. Nice racing Si! Love you baby!

Award Banquet!

GO WAVE!!!

Valencia Hills WAVE won the Championship yesterday, the last time we took home the Championship was in 1990, it's been 19 years!!! That is something to be proud of!!!

These are the 7-8 Girl's




Sierra wasn't even feeling good today. She has a fever. But we had to go get her trophy! Great job this season, Sierra!

Championship Swim Meet!

Sierra swam in her Championship Meet today! She swam great! She swam in a Freestyle Relay. She swam Breast Stroke in the Medley Relay and her relay team broke the League Record which had been previously held since 1984. She swam Individual Breast Stroke and got a close 2nd place, it was a great race. She also swam Individual Freestyle and got First Place, on the sheet I noticed that Sierra was swimming against 4 other girls and all the girls had faster times then her. She improved her time so much that she beat all of them. WOW!

Aunt Leanne and Marne were in town this weekend and came to Sierra's meet, so fun to have so much family there! Grammy, Nana and Papa came too (had to document, I don't have pictures to prove it) :)

Sierra swimming Breast Stroke in the Medley Relay!

Every year they have a Parent Relay, we make up a team of 4 Mom's and we each swim 1 lap of Freestyle. They have a Dad's team too. I got to swim and I had so much FUN!!!

We had a really close race between us and one other team. We won Second Place, a close Second.