Swim Lessons

Love doing swim lessons with our friends every summer! The girls are still working on their basic freestyle strokes. The boys are working on more advanced skills such as flip turns (like the Olympians do) and other strokes like the butterfly.

Avery and Daphne

Tyler, Ryan, and Ryan

Texas A&M Soccer Camp

We tricked Tyler into going to soccer camp at Texas A&M. The longer we live in Austin the more pro-Longhorn Tyler is. We learned from another mom from Tyler's soccer team last fall that a number of his past teammates would be going to soccer camp at A&M this summer. We asked Tyler if he wanted to go to a sleepaway soccer camp for 3 days/2 nights with 5 of his buddies. Tyler said yes and so we signed him up. We didn't tell him until earlier this week that the camp was at A&M. We dropped him off on Thursday and camp went through Saturday morning. The boys stayed in the Callaway House athletic dorm and Tyler was in a suite with 7 other boys: 5 from his old team plus 2 others also from our Lonestar Soccer Club that were friends with some of the other boys. The boys had a blast: 2 training sessions on Thursday, 3 on Friday, and final scrimmages on Saturday with the parents in attendance. Tyler's favorite thing was the shot competition. They used a radar gun to clock the speed of everyone's shot (or kick). Tyler clocked in at 36 mph. The winner of the competition clocked in at 40 mph. They were also timed doing the 40-yard dash and Tyler came in at 6.18 seconds. On Friday night the boys stayed up late having a pizza party with their coaches. Tyler had a lot of fun but attributes it to being with friends and not being at A&M.

Saturday morning scrimmage

The suitemates from Lonestar Soccer Club: Boone, Kody,
Nick, Evan, Tyler, Brody, Christian, Kylian, and Coach Jared;
Coach Ben not pictured

Closing ceremony- A&M Head Soccer Coach Guerrieri (aka
Coach G) gave a nice closing speech. I also liked that he
mentioned A&M's winning streak against Texas schools, which
hopefully appealed to Tyler's competitive nature

So worn out!

Soccer Player Profile

Close up for Tyler's soccer player card

Happy Birthday America!

A relaxing 4th of July this year- we hiked and swam in the greenbelt in the morning and took in the Buda festival and fireworks in the evening with a little downtime in between.

Daphne, Tyler, and Ryan ready for a swim

Tyler and Ryan took turns swimming into the
waterfall. Tyler managed to stand on a ledge
under the fall and poke his head out.

Conquered the long hike back up to the car

Sporting red, white, and blue

Banana flavored cotton candy

So worth the long wait!

The balloon artist managed to make
Daphne a monkey with a banana

Tyler Loves Mom

I drew this lovely message while Tyler was distracted at the snow cone cart. When he saw it and tried to erase it, Michael and Abuelito scooped him up so he could pose for a photo.