Swim Team

Most of you know that all of the Herrold boys were swimmers growing up. There's nothing their Mom would love more than for one of her grandchildren to also swim. Hannah swam for Cedar Ridge one year. It was lots of fun. She probably had about 30 people on her team and they swam against the other local Country Clubs during the summer. It was very low key, but a good time.

Well, swim team is HUGE in Texas. We signed all 3 of our girls up for the swim team at Sweetwater (Sweetwater Surfers). There are 200 people on their team PLUS a waiting list. Huge I tell you!!! They started swimming every day after school for an hour the whole month of May. The first meet was tonight. Or, I should say IS tonight. Daniel, Hannah and Abby are still there. These meets are lllllooooonnnggg! We had to be there at 4:00 and the word on the street is that it will wrap up around 10:00. (One of my friends just texted me, "I hate swim team!" LOL)

This picture is in the parking lot. The swimmers are divided by age and gender. This is essentially staging! It looks like a tailgate party, but not nearly as fun!!!

The girls did great and loved every minute of it. Ellie Grace participated in a freestyle relay and individual freestyle. She got 1st place in the individual race and although she did great in the relay, they were unfortunately disqualified. She did walk away with a great participation ribbon though!

Abby won first in her relay (she swam the anchor!), first in backstroke and second in freestyle!

Hnnah won first in her relay (she swam butterfly), first in backstroke and first in butterfly. At the time of this writing she still had a couple more events.

And now, I must gush over my husband! He has willingly and voluntarily taken charge of our volunteer duties. (Each parent must work 3 half meets.) He let me and Ellie Grace leave around 7:30 and is still there with Hannah and Abby. What a trooper!!!

I promise not to gush every Monday, but this post is for Grandma!