Dear Mom and Dad
We’re back in Texas! It was so fun to be with you! See my last post to hear about the whole trip. Now its time to settle into routine at home. And we brought Grandma with us! Flying was an ordeal for her, but we are grateful she made the sacrifice to be with us. She is going to be teaching Tucker to read while she’s here, and we will enjoy having her around and getting lots of quality time!
We’re back in Texas! It was so fun to be with you! See my last post to hear about the whole trip. Now its time to settle into routine at home. And we brought Grandma with us! Flying was an ordeal for her, but we are grateful she made the sacrifice to be with us. She is going to be teaching Tucker to read while she’s here, and we will enjoy having her around and getting lots of quality time!
The big new thing for the kids this summer is swim
team! We’ve bucked the Texas trend until
now and never committed to swim team, but this year, feeling more relaxed after
homeschooling, we werem ore ready for a daily swim session. Tyler and Anslie have LOVED doing it,
especially because there are 5 families from the ward also doing it. Social time and exercise all packed into an
hour! Tucker struggled at first, he
really couldn’t swim more than 10 feet.
But the expectation at practice is that you swim, and he has really
stepped up to the plate and is swimming laps and laps, even after just a week
of practice. More accomplished in a week
than in 3 years of summer swim lessons! He even went to the meet on Saturday
and competed! This shocked me, but he
took it all in stride. He got 2nd
place in backstroke. The races for his
age group are so cute, they are so small they look like little turtles moving
through the water. They really can’t
make it all the way across doing freestyle, so they flip on their backs when
they are tired and then keep going. Tyler
also competed and did well, he was in the top 8 swimmers out of about 40 for
his age group. Anslie was at a birthday
campout with cousins Ava, Carly, and Audrey, all close to the same age.
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| Tucker racing in freestyle |
Sunday was Father’s Day.
We made a special breakfast and the kids presented to Freeman the gifts they’d
purchased. I made him a whole tub of
homemade chocolate chip cookie dough. I got to talk to you on the phone, Dad! Sure glad you're my Dad, wish I could've been with you. After church we went to Mom and Dad Linton's and enjoyed fajitas and a
little program. A nice day.
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| Grandpa Linton and grandkids on Father's Day |
Love, Shell
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