Summer Fun!!!

If you know anything about the Holbrooks and summer, you know that we are all about the pool! Since Taylor has been about 5, we have been doing swim team. The kids learn to swim early, and spend lots of time in the water all summer long. This year we are on the Aquabears swim team here in San Ramon. This team isn't as competetive as we were used to in Fremont - and next year we will probably join another team that will challenge the kids more, but for now, they are loving it and having a ton of fun. The nice thing is that it is close to the house (the girls ride their bikes to practice every day, and then I come later with the boys), there are a lot of kids from the kid's schools on the team, so they are making more friends, and Cannon and I are also getting to know some more people in the area. There is even a "Junior" team that Jackson is on, the Aquacubs. He is doing great and having a fun time!

Yesterday we went to Lafayette to see my good friend Gwen (Smith Helvey) and her 4 kids, and we went to her swimming pool. It was great - it has a diving board, slide, a kiddie pool, the works! So the kids dove, jumped, and swam all day long. My other long time friend, Deb (Lawrence Hardy) and her 3 kids were there too. It is so much fun to have them live close, and to be such good friends after so many years. It's fun that our kids are friends, too!

This is Taylor, in the red suit! Today she says she is sore from all of her tricks!

Here is Morgan, ready to dive during swim practice.

Morgan was the daredevil doing all sorts of flips off of the diving board. She had so much fun! (Don't miss her - she is up in the air, upside down...)

Getting ready to dive off of the "blocks"...

Jackson becoming daring as he jumps in with a twist!

Jackson swimming. He can swim great until he has to take a breath! No, he is not wearing a white shirt...that is his skin!!! :)

He is so big - gets to swim in the meets and everything!

These two spent most of the day wrestling in the baby pool - I had to break it up a few times so that no one would get hurt! They had too much fun!

CJ doing his favorite stroke, the breast stroke!

Cheese! Looking cute!

With some swim buddies getting ready to dive in during practice!

Well, it's guaranteed that you will see more swim team pictures throughout the summer - this is just the beginning!!!