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Sun 27 Jul 2008

Final Swim Meet

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The kids made it through the rest of the swim meet, and finished out the season in style. Mason ended up as a heat winner in the 25 backstroke in the 6-8 year old age group, so it was neat for him to win against some older kids. Whitney continued to improve throughout the season, and is also pretty good in the backstroke.

They are both glad to be done, as they have to swim every day for a couple months. Now they are free to just go to either of the pools here and just hang out and enjoy the water without having to worry about how fast they are swimming. The video shows Mason and Whitney doing the freestyle and backstrokes, and includes Mason’s victory.

 

Tue 15 Jul 2008

Swim Meet

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The kids are doing swimming again this year and have been having a pretty good time. Mason placed in the backstroke at one meet and Whitney has been improving her time and beating a few kids as well. She has swam the breast stroke, butterfly, back and freestyle races as well as a relay. Mason has done the butterfly, back and freestyle and also the relay. Here’s a video of Whitney swimming.

 

Sun 13 Jul 2008

A Softball Game for Whitney

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For some reason, we didn’t bring the camera along to very many of Whitney’s softball games this year. I do have a few pictures in this post, and I think I have a few more on the way. Overall, she did very good this year. She grew into a very good hitter and fielder, but she really progressed in throwing the ball. She ended up being a very accurate thrower with some decent range. She learned to keep her eye on the ball, too. Anyway, here are some pictures.

 

Tue 17 Jun 2008

Trip to Quantico

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For work a few of us got to go on a tour of the Marine Corps Base at Quantico.

It was a lot of fun and we learned a lot. We started out shooting guns, then watched a demonstration by one of the dog handlers.

Then we went to see their night vision training facility, the museum and then we went on a boat ride. It was all pretty cool.

 

Tue 10 Jun 2008

Protected: Herb’s Major Award

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Fri 6 Jun 2008

Tornado in Stafford

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The other night we had a few tornadoes in Stafford County. Me and Heidi sat down on the porch to watch the storm pass by and noticed how green the sky was. There was some lighting and thunder, and it was raining pretty good.


Heidi went inside and looked at the weather report, and it said there was a tornado warning in effect, which said that there was a tornado in Stafford. I looked at the map and it showed several potential tornadoes in our neighborhood, so we had the kids get in the bathtub and I got a mattress to throw over them, just in case.

The rain got even worse, and so did the lightning, but the wind never really picked up and the tornado passed around us. Mason was starting to like hiding in the bath tub, since they were watching a movie, but Whitney was glad when the storm passed.

 

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