Swim Season Has Begun...

Time Trials, May 2008

All four of our children has been swimming since they were very young. But it wasn't until three years ago that they joined a swim team. Although the swim team is a "recreational" team, our children swim every day and take each meet very seriously. We have had the pleasure of watching them grow in many ways through this sport. They are by no means ready to sign up for the Olympics, or even think about sports scholarships, but they all have come a long way. They are very strong swimmers, and above all enjoy the sport. To them swimming comes naturally and they gladly sign up every year.

The swim season officially begins in April but the meets actually start at end of May/beginning of June every year. This weekend was our first dual meet against another local team. It was not our conference meet, which means it's more for fun (practice), so for our team it was to be our "time trials", meaning we use the swim time on this meet as the gauge in which we measure ourselves against. With four kids in different age division, you basically have to be on the deck all day long. Between all four of our kids they swam over 20 events!!! Fortunately for us, Uncle Curtis came up to see them this weekend which explains the beautiful photos displayed below. He took soooo many pictures... hundred of them! But not to worry... I've only displayed few. There are many more pictures of our oldest, Christopher, because he had to swim EVERY SINGLE EVENTS... 8 events in all. He was exhausted by the time the meet ended.

Chris, keeping warm after signing in

Our children brings things to do to keep themselves busy between events
Here's Jeffrey with his Gameboy DS

My girls... trying to keep warm

Rachel getting ready for warm up

This is Rachel's favorite stroke - Butterfly
She was in a medley relay, and you guessed it...
she swam the butterfly stroke

Elizabeth during her freestyle event

Jeffrey was awesome today...
here he is during his freestyle event

Chris' least favorite stroke is the backstroke.
Unfortunately he had to swim it couple of times...
and Uncle Curtis was able to snap this photo just in the nick of time
pretty impressive abs, huh?

Besides swimming the butterfly stroke in the medley relay
Rachel also swam the "butterfly" event
For a little girl she has a strong upper body strength
She is able to bring her body way out of the water...

Rachel watching her siblings and teammates swim

One of the most beautiful stroke is the butterly
Done right it is just magnificent
Here's Chris during his 100IM
(100 meter Individual Medley)

This is the 3rd portion of the IM... Breast Stroke
This is Chris' favorite stroke

Lizzy with her friend
she was at the poolside cheering for her team all day

Jeffrey with his breast stroke

After the meet ... Chris was quite exhausted