Swimming

Lately, if you try to find us on Saturdays you'll have to check at the pool. Scott has been swimming and he has meets every Saturday. Swimming is such a great sport and although it isn't the most exciting to watch we love being there to watch Scott. He practices almost every day as early as 5:30 on a couple mornings. Everyone is welcome on the team and everyone participates. Your biggest competition is to better your own times, and it's just great exercise. Those are just a few of the reasons we think it's a great activity. There's a young boy on Scott's team who has some physical disabilities. Each week he swims and I can really see the improvement. It takes everything he's got to complete his race, but his team and everyone else in the building are cheering him on. Scott has done well again this year and has qualified to go to the State swim meet in Boise in November. I'm excited to go on a ROAD TRIP!

It's hard to get a good picture because of the movement and water, but here are a few tries.


Relay Team Swimming the Backstroke

A Favorite Fall Treat

All of my boys have a love of fruit leather. Doug's mom is always making it and keeps a stash for when they visit. I will make a few rolls now and then especially in the fall when the apples are plentiful. Last week we bottled lots of applesauce and made some into fruit leather. I just spread about 2 cups of sauce on a plastic lined cookie sheet and dry in my convection oven on 170 degrees. It usually takes 5-8 hours. This year we even sauced some plums and dried them. It was gone in a flash. I want to send some to Daren. I might have to hide it.