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End of Long Course banquet

The awards banquet for the long course season was held tonight.  Megan's only coach in her time with the Marlins is moving, so she will have a new coach next season (which we learned starts on October 8th).  She was a bit teary eyed saying goodbye.  Eric's coach, Emily (Matt's sister) is stuck with him for another year.
I somehow did not save a picture of Megan with Matt in her first year of swimming but am sharing a pic from her 2nd year banquet to compare to tonight's picture.

Long Course State Swim Meet

Eric qualified for state in 3 of the 4 events he competed in during the long course season: 50 and 100 Free, and the 50 Back.
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 Finished in 11th place in his 50 Free, with a time of 28.87, a PR by 1.4 seconds.  He was seeded 16th!

 Eric and Riley (lanes 1 and 2)  pre-50 Back, checking to see if Hunter ( lane 8)is ready.  Eric was seeded 5th, and finished 6th, adding 0.81 sec to his entry time.  He was a little bummed he didn't do better in this event after such a beast mode performance in the 100 Free an hour earlier.

 3 Marlins in this heat for the 50 Back

 Waiting for the final event of the meet-Mixed 400 IM relay.  Eric swam the final leg-the 100 Free.  He finished with his fastest time for this distance (even faster than his individual 100 Free a few hours earlier) in 01:05.48.  They took 2nd in their division!

  I think this is actually Riley, not Eric.  Whoops

 High 5's after his 50 Free, dropping 1.4 seconds and taking 11th Place

 He cut 3.4 seconds in his 100 Free!  BEAST mode!  He placed 13th (was seeded 14th)

 End of the 400 IM relay.   His teammates are looking at the board to see their finish time and heat place

I wish Megan would have qualified, too!  She missed by 2.4 seconds.  I think if she had one or 2 more meets, she would have made the time cut.  2 of her relays had qualifying times, but you need to qualify in an individual event to swim at state.  Short course is just 3 months away!

4th of July

Some random pics from the boys' birthday and the 4th!

storms

Kota does not like storms.
She really does not like storms and fireworks at the same time.

 Our new fence-not even a month old.  Luckily, the panels easily snap/slide back into place, and we had it repaired within an hour

 Hard to see, but a power line went down right behind our house.  We were without power for ~4 hours.  It went our before my coffee finished brewing, so I only had half a cup to start a busy day.

This fell out of our maple tree.  Only noticed the one egg.