Saturday , the girls had their first swim meet.

They had alot of fun swimming against the other team .  The girls swam well and swam fast even though they had some tough competition .

Here the girls were gettting out to the pool area. They were ready to swim turbo speed.

Here's a nice picture of Marilyn in the pool . Even though our camera takes great pictures it doesn't do to well with action shots .

But here the girls are taking turns practing their flip turns .

Maggie came along with us too. She was a very good girl. When the buzzer went off she would turn her head towards the pool .  Maggie knows those sounds because Mommy was pregnant with her during swim season last year .

Hannie came along too. She's used to the swim meets. They can be VERY long depending on how big the teams are .  But she was a good girl too. She stayed with mommy the whole time and cheered on her sisters.

Daddy took a nice picture  of Katie and her friend Abbey . Abbey is a sweat little girl and she loves my girls ALOT .

Here's a really nice picture of Marilyn and her friend Courtney. Courtney started right along with Marilyn . This is their 3rd year together . Courtney moved up to Cadets though . Would you believe she is older then Marilyn ?  All of Marilyn's friends moved up to Cadets this year. Only because of the date of their birthdays made it possible for Marilyn to swim a third year in Midgets this year .

This picture is a little bright . But next to me is my friend Penny, she is a third year mom like myself  . Penny has been my inspiration . She had the gastric bypass surgery ( she was actually bigger then I was at my heaviest at one time ) . She is now down to I believe she said 140 and she keeps it off.  If you can tell in this picture I've actually gained some weight here.  Not very proud of myself . But I'm hoping after Maggie weans that I can get back to my old exercise and diet routine so I can shed off the pounds again .

Like I said these meets can be a little long .  After a while Maggie decided to take a snooze.

O.k. after the swim meet was all said and done daddy took the girls up to the farm and they carved out their pumpkins with .....well... Pumpkin .

This is something they do every year with their grandpa and they love doing it .

Here Hannah and Pumpkin where coring out the pumpkin . Hannah decided she was going to make a robot pumpkin .

Of course dad wanted to get in on the action . He loves to carve out the pumpkins too.  Dad was the "pumpkin artist." The girls told him what they wanted and he carved .

So everyone , here are the finished products . Hannah's was the robot pumpkin , Katie was the "sccarrry " pumpkin , the tiny pumpkin was Maggie pumpkin ..its a little different pumpkin with the sideways nose .. and Marilyn's pumpkin was a Halloween cat.

Well everyone . I will post the Halloween pictures tomorrow . Here is to a night of funfilled costume dressing and gorging on lots of candy ....

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