our little fish

This year I decided to have both Elle and Cooper do swim team though the city of Mesa, so to prepare for it they took swim lesson (more stroke practice) from Allison, an awesome gal whose taught them pretty much all they know about swimming!  Then it was time for swim team at Taylor Jr. High every morning Monday through Thursday for the months of June and July!  I thought they'd hate it but they actually really loved it and they were doing awesome! Both of them did amazing at the swim meets each week and I was just amazed!  It wasn't until then that I realized my kids were both pretty awesome swimmers!  So before we headed off to Oklahoma I signed them up for the City Divisionals.  When we got back from Oklahoma they did divisional try outs basically to see if they'd move onto the League Championship Meet to swim against the best of the best of the City of Mesa!   So they both swam and both of them made it onto the next level which was the Championship meet!  I can't tell you how excited I was~ basically it went from 95 kids to the top 16 and both my kids were in the top 16, it was a nail bitter the whole time, but both of them did amazing! 

Then it came the day of the Championships, July 19th, Cooper was swimming the back stroke and Elle was swimming Freestyle, Breaststroke and Back stroke.  Colby and I both sat there and just watched and waited and it was so hot, but so exciting and I was just so proud of both of my kids!  They swam their little hearts out and tried their hardest!  Cooper came in 12th in the back stroke which was awesome and Brielle can I just say KICKED BOOTY, she got first place in Freestyle and Breaststroke and second place for back stroke and took first place for high point winner overall for her age level!  So basically she was NUMBER ONE!  Is that just AWESOME!  I mean I was pretty much freaking out excited!  I think we've pretty much decided our kids needs to be swimmers cause they are pretty amazing!