FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!

AJ was SO excited to go to school. She woke up this morning at 4:30 AM and "just couldn't fall asleep all night!"

I just had lunch with her and she is indeed having a wonderful time and loves her teacher. Her only regret is not getting a couple of her best friends in her class...oh well, good opportunity to make new ones.

Emma Long Park

A little slice of heaven. The Cappels bring us here on the boat to dock and swim, but this time we drove in. Still a perfect spot to float, chill, and enjoy the beautiful view...

The Alamo and San Antonio Riverwalk

Hamilton Pool

My mom is visiting and Friday we went to Hamilton Pool... by far one of the coolest places we have visited in the Austin area. It is essentially a huge grotto that was formed when an underground cave collapsed thousands of years ago, leaving a half dome-shaped ledge that covers much of the pool. The pool is filled by a steady stream of water which falls to the rocks and water below. The pool leads into a brook that eventually feeds into the Pedernales River.

SO COOL...

Spanish Oaks Pool

Our friends invited us over to their neighborhood pool... it was awesome

Bike Rodeo

Barton Springs

HAPPY 4TH!

“You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas”
–Davy Crockett

Some Bling

The kids picked up some fancy neckware at the award ceremony on Saturday...

Volleyball Camp

Here are a some pics from AJ's volleyball camp. We are exploring a few new sports to see which she might be interested in. She hates being hot (indoor and water sports are looking good) and she is going to be about a million feet tall, so I think volleyball is a definite possibility. I think this was a good intro, and only a one week commitment, which worked out well.

Heat Wins

AJ has discovered that she is very good
at breast stroke. She has such a natural
innate stroke. She doesn't always win,
but she ALWAYS looks fabulous. The
speed will come, but the skill is already
there!

Iron (wo)Man

So some of you have heard that I went in for some skeletal improvements on the 11th. I am now officially a robot-human hybrid. Look out–we super humans will outlive all of you mere mortals.

Technically I had some vertebra fused, and it was a bear of a surgery. I laid in semi-consciousness for 5 days in the hospital...I have almost no memory of this photo. But I did get a nice 120 hour nap. So now I am feeling very rested. I should be able to skip several nights of sleep if needed.

Thank you everyone for you support, thoughts, calls, meals, and visits (sorry if I said anything that left you scratching your head...morphine tends to make me wax crazy.)

If pride cometh before the fall...

I better invest in a parachute. Check out my swimmer of the week!

Domination

Here it it, the video highlights of the Lake Hills meet.


AJ and Jack Watts swim the Lake Pointe Lazers @ Lake Hills Swim Meet 2009

Happy Birthday to ME!!!

My kids ROCKED the Lake Hills meet!

We had our first meet yesterday, which happened to be my birthday. As a gift to me they killed! AJ won a heat ribbon in backstroke (I'll be posting video later) and Jack (who by the way is the only kid under 6 in his age group) came in 2nd in his backstroke by about 2 inches. It was an awesome day, the host's pool is right on the lake and we played in the lake long after the meet was over.

After the meet we went out to dinner at my favorite restaurant, and went to concert at the Galleria amphitheater where we saw a sunset that would put any Hawaiian postcard to shame. I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful, wonderful, terrific birthday or 3 more fun people to spend it with. So far 33 is looking like a really great year!!!