swimming finals

Friday morning we headed to Cedar City

for the swimming finals. We walked into the

pool and it was full of people everywhere!

There were around 400 swimmers from 

7 different teams - crazy!

It was such a long day, each race had

3-5 heats and it seemed to drag on

since there were so many swimmers

competing. The swimmers had to 

come in the top 8 to move on to 

Saturday for the championships!

Brooklin was swimming the butterfly,

backstroke and freestyle plus the 

freestyle and IM relay!

She was debating whether or not to 

compete in the IM and she decided

 on the backstroke - I was hoping she'd

do the IM but the pool was longer in Cedar

and she said she'd get tired!!! (she maybe 

a little stubborn)

She made it to the finals in the butterfly,

coming in 3rd out of 19. She came

in 13th out of 37 for the backstroke 

and 7th out of 34 in the freestyle.

The relay team did awesome -

taking 3rd out of 9 in the IM relay

and taking 7th out of 10 in the freestyle.

(noting they beat both their times

from the previous week)

Brooklin did improve her times on 

Saturday for both events she did -

Butterfly= 27:24 (4)

Freestyle= 21.72 (7)

I'm so proud of you Brooklin!

You did amazing in all your events

and did your best each time you swam!

All the swimmers that competed did

AWESOME and it was so fun cheering

them all on!!! I'm hooked on swimming

and I can't wait for next year :)

awesome relay team - tyra, brooklin, jordan, alley

the girls getting ready to race...

in the bullpen

b would've rather just played in the sand rather than swim!

future olympian photo shoot

aunt kirstie surprised b for her last race! she was soooo happy!

all smiles!

We were at the meet until 9:30pm and we were all starving!

We tried one place and they were closed so IHOP it was...

Us, Ludvigson's, Tobler's, Memmott's and Riviera's

invaded the back room at IHOP! 

Good Times....

I think we finally made it to bed by 11:30pm - it was a long 

day/night and the next day started way too early.

Warm-up's started at 7:00 and the meet was ready

to go by 8:00 but it went quick!

Thanks grandpa and Kirst for making the trip

to Cedar to watch Brooklin!

good luck balloons from auntie kirst!

pep talk from dad

announcing her name!

Mason was such a trooper! He went swimming on Fri

and then once all the kids found the sand box, that was 

the hang out!