Lots of swimming

A lot of our summer can be summed up in one word, Swimming.  Ellie continues to love swimming and the more she does it the better she gets.  She continued with her competitive swim team but also swam summer league for Courthouse.  I am begging Doug to get a new lens because it is hard to get action shots at swim meets.  These action shots are all from the last meet in Bend.  Some of the pictures I included won't mean much to anyone who isn't into swimming, but I can see amazing difference in her form.  It was fun for her to look at the pictures and realize how she is placing her hands and head now!  And of course that means some major time drops.  I am really excited to see how she does in the fall.  She has also made some good friends which is really nice for her.  Swim meets wind up with a lot of hang out time so friendships are good to have.

 This was a great race that Jack got so into.  Ellie was out in the lead until the breastroke leg and then she lost the lead a little as you can see in this picture, but she kicked in the last leg of freestyle and pulled out a heat win and a 5 second time drop from her best summer league time.  Doug took a picture of the scoreboard!

 The Bend meet ended a day with watermelon relays and Ellie got to take home the watermelon.  As you can see she was really excited!