A Week On The Beach

We are on vacation this week in Florida.  The last time I was in Florida was when I was only 6!  This time I have all of my cousins here: Landon, Jack, Rowan and Maggie.  There are 3 different condos for each family.  Plus we spent the night at Gram and Papi's house one night too.

We spent a lot of time on the beach making sandcastles and burying ourselves. 

Here is a picture of me in the ocean that Daddy took from the condo.  I like the beach and ocean but I always want to go to the pool more.  I can't get enough of the pool even if we have them in Indiana.

One fun thing we did is get out glow sticks after a walk.  And we had a little dance party.  Jack was so funny how he was dancing.  

My third grade teacher is...

...Mr. McGuire. It is like I'm going back to kindergarten!  I just found out today.  I am really excited because that is the teacher that I wanted.  I am happy that Abigail and Lyric are in my class and I'm also excited to know who else is in my class.  Mr. McGuire has an auction with McGuire bucks at the end of the semester. He also does science which is one of my favorite subjects.   But I'm still not totally ready for summer to be over.  I want to see my friends but I am not ready for homework!

Kindergarten Graduation with Mr. McGuire

Champs

Like always, Champs is the day before we went on vacation.  And it is a long, long day with a lot of races.  We hung out with the McAfees.

In the closest lane getting ready for 25m butterfly.

I did 5 races and I got 5 medals.  I won my heat in backstroke and I got a ribbon that you could show at the tent for a popsicle.  I ended up with three 4th place medals (2 relays and individual 25m backstroke) which were yellow.  I also got orange and brown medals for my other races. Uncle Tim said I looked like a rapper with all of my medals.

And my team, the Seacats, won again.  We won last year too.  So we got to push the coaches in the pool at the end.  Then we got in the van and drove to Florida.

The Neighborhood Pool

I looovvve having a pool in our neighborhood that we can swim every day.  We don't go every day but we go a lot.  There is a shortcut by our neighbor's house and then we cross the creek on the rocks and we can get to the pool really quick. And I see a lot of my neighborhood friends there too so we usually have kids to play with.

We did a movie night at the pool that was a lot of fun. We floated around and watched Zootopia.  I ate so much cotton candy and popcorn too.

Father's Day

For Father's Day, Daddy picked that we could go to see Finding Dory.  It was a good movie and it was a good day to spend with Daddy.

And She's Off!

I really am good at riding my bike without training wheels now.  Mommy was working with me last week and I was just taking off.  I have been riding my bike up and down our street.

Go! Go! Go!

 We had a party for the Kentucky Derby and we made fancy hats to wear.  They even had lights on them.  Ohhh!  I was made that my horses didn't win though.  The Lord boys' mom won for the adults and my friend Lyric won for the kids.  Maybe next year.