Whew………………..Things are finally settling down around here.  We just finished up with swim team and I feel that our real summer is only starting now.  My kids did great and had a blast…..but like usual mom over-did.  For swim team I did the registration, the portraits of the swimmers, the coaches gifts and the newsletter.  Of the many jobs that I took on, the newsletter was the job that proved to be too much this year.  Someday I will learn to do things simply but for now I have chosen to give it up because I can’t seem to go the simple route with anything. 

Instead of simple reminders of coming events, I completed what could only be categorized as a full newspaper each week.  It was complete with approximately 50 photo’s of the last meet.   This year I had help taking photos and it proved both good and bad.  All together we averaged of 3000 photos, most of them from my helper.  Some of the photos were Olympic quality, so much so that people begged for an end of the season photo CD.  Can you imagine going through five to six hundred photo’s each week in order to produce a local swim team newsletter?  I must say that in the end I am proud of each and every newsletter but I am not happy with all that I had to give up to tackle this endeavor. 

Here are a few photos of my two swimmers.  

Here is Connor with one of his friends.