BC State finish

OK, so here's how he finished. On Sat. he had 2 events--100 Freestyle and 100 Backstroke. He knocked 3 secs. off the free and 1 1/2 secs. off the back! All in all, it was a great meet for him! Now it's on to long course. I think the first meet for long course is on April 22 but nothing has been set in stone yet. More info and updates to come so keep checking back.

It looks like Marlin is off to work with Lynn doing some remodel in Idaho or Wyoming or somewhere up there for about 6 weeks. He's planning on leaving on April 6th. Yay for the work, boo for it being so far away. But I guess you have to go where the work is....

BC State meet-day 1

Well, it's State weekend for swimming. Josh is swimming in the BC State meet, which is like the junior state competition because he didn't have any state cuts. Of course, turning 13 right before state sure makes it hard to get state cuts. Josh was named as an alternate on a couple of the state relay teams so we had to be in Bountiful where the meet is being held Thursday night in case one of the team members didn't show up. Unfortunately, all the team members were there. So, today he had 3 official events that he swam: 200 freestyle, 50 freestyle and 100 breaststroke. He did most amazing on his 200 free - he knocked of 8.66 seconds and now is only 25 secs. off his state cut. That may seem like alot to most people but he could prabably knock that off in 2 meets. On his 50 free he actually added .73 seconds to his time but got a bad dive. On his 100 breaststroke he knocked off 2.64 seconds but got DQ'd cuz he didn't touch both hands on the wall at the end of one of his laps (refs can be so picky sometimes!) Still, personal bests on 2 out 3 events. Not a bad meet so far. Tomorrow he swims the 100 free and 100 back.

Josh's birthday plans

OMG! What a weekend we had! Friday night (2-27) Josh had a swim meet here in Provo from 4-9:30-ish and again we were back at the pool at 7 am. He swam until about 12:30. He got personal bests on 5 out of 7 events he swam. My little Olympian! Then it was go home and get ready for a birthday bash. You know, you only turn into a teenager once so you have to make it memorable! We didn't do the "usual" thing of going somewhere this year. Instead we had everyone come over for hamburgers, Johnsonville's and chips; with cake and ice cream of course. Then those kids that could (there were 10) stayed over and tried to get through the night without falling asleep. By the time midnight came around, there were only 3 left standing-Josh, his friend, Wade, and cousin, Scott. Then we had breakfast and they all played some more before everyone starting drifting back to their own homes. I asked Josh what time they finally all crashed and he said that it was probably about 3. I think everyone had a good time and I KNOW I'm still trying to recover.
I was hoping to have this posted long before now but I haven't had time to download my pix from the party.