Learning to Croquet

The girls really wanted to learn how to croquet. They asked Grandma to teach them. They had a fun time learning.

Mom and Andy Knee Surgery

Today Mom and Andy both had knee Surgery. They have the same Doctor, Gary Levengood, who did their Surgeries back to back. They both had an ACL replacement and Andy also had his torn Meniscus repaired. We figured it was a great idea to just get it all done in one day. That way I could take care of both of them at the same time. Mom has a chair at her house that we call the two butt chair, this is where mom and Andy sat for a week after surgery. We decided to stay the week at moms house so I could help take care of mom while dad went to work. They both had a huge brace that was hooked up to an ice machine. They had to unhook it anytime they needed to get up. Since it was such a project, if one got up to go to the bathroom I made the other one get up too!! Dad and I had to get up in the middle of the night to give medicine and replace their ice. Hopefully they will feel better soon.


Getting ready for surgery!


Waiting, Waiting, & more Waiting!


Finally home!


So Tired!

Firehouse with the Calicone's

After the County meet we went with our friends the Calicone's to the Firehouse. Fred works there are decided it would be fun to let the kids sit on the trucks and spray the hose. The kids had a really fun time.
Megan and Anna




Having fun with Fred, Steven, Julie and Anna

Gwinnett County Swim Championship

Megan Made it to County her first year swimming in the Summer League. We are so proud of her. She was able to swim with her relay team. She was invited to do both the 100Free relay and the 100 Medley relay. She ended up only swimming in the free relay so that another little girls got the opportunity to swim one of the relays. She did such a great job. The County meet is held at Georgia Tech in their big indoor aquatic center. This is the same place that the Olympics were swam back in 1996. Megan was so excited that she got to swim in the same pool as Michael Phelps. We decided that since we had to be at the pool so early in the morning that we would get a hotel close by and spend the night down town. Megan thought that was awesome. We spent the night playing Rummy cube together. That next morning we got to the pool bright and early and got Megan all ready to go.
In the Hotel all ready and excited to go!

Georgia Tech



Warm ups

Warm up and Team Picture

This place is Huge!

It finally time for the race. Girls 9-10 100 yard Free Style Relay. Megan is swimming in the 4th position. Her relay consists of Anna, Jayla, Ava, and Megan.


Megan's relay was in lane 6 and they held the lead and won 1st place in their heat. I am so proud of Megan and her finishing strong for her team.

Megan's relay ended up with 1st in their heat and 23rd out of 50 overall.

WAY TO GO MEGAN!!!

Girls Camp

Since I am the 1st counselor in the Grayson Ward YW Presidency I was able to go down to girls camp for the night to see the skits. Our girls did a fantastic job. The theme this year was Dr. Seuss, Oh the places you will go. Each ward was given a different book to use for a skit. Our ward got The foot book. Chloe McWilliams choreographed a really cute dance to some music with the words to the book in the background. Our skit was the best by far!!


Rachel, Jess, Trudy, Mary Ann, & Kristina

Waterton Waverunners Pool Party

Tonight was the end of summer swim pool party at Waterton. The girls had a really fun time. Megan got a cool metal from here coaches, so that made her night. They got to play Limbo, hula hoop, and do relays. Megan and I swam in the relay and she almost beat me. She is a great little swimmer. Alexis won limbo, which made her extremely happy. Also the kids got to shave Coach Jeremy's head. For some reason Megan didn't want to do it so she just watched her friends do it. We had a great night with friends, and are grateful we joined such a great swim team.

UNO with grandpa

The girls had a fun time playing cards with Grandpa today. They really love their grandpa.

Black Widow

A few months ago I took the trampoline apart and put it in the garage. When we were leaving today and got in the car Alexis yelled spider! Well it happened to be a BLACK WIDOW and she had layed eggs and they had already hatched. There were a million little black widow spiders all over the wheel of the trampoline. I thought I was going to have a freak out moment, but everyone was calm and Andy took it down to the road and we torched her and her babies! It was terrible.

Waterton vs. North Fork

Tonight was the final swim meet of the season before County. Megan did such an amazing job. She swam her heart out and got her best time of the season on her 25yd free. We are so proud of Megan and how hard she works.

Tonight Megan swam...

25 yd backstroke 21.42 3rd place
100 yd medley relay 1:21.02 1st palce (personal free 19.75)
Anna Calaicone, Melanie McKnight, Jayla Gillis, Megan Dollar
25 yd freestyle 18.75 rainbow ribbon-0.54 seconds (her personal best of the season)
25 yd butterfly 24.75
100 yd freestyle relay 1:12.89 1st place

More Fireworks at the Cano's

I guess we haven't had enough, so we came to the Cano's for more firework fun! The girls always love spending time with their cousins.

4th of July

The girls wore their cute dresses to church.


We had a fun time with Grandma and Grandpa Cersey doing sparklers and throwing popping things.

4th of July Fireworks on the 3rd!

4th of July is on a Sunday this year so we watched fireworks on Saturday night. This year for fireworks we were invited by some friends, Fred and Julie Calaicone, from swim team to watch fireworks in their neighborhood. Their daughter Anna swims at the YMCA and Waterton with Megan. We had a really fun time. The fireworks were great and we had a front row seat in their driveway. Megan and Alexis sat even closer than us with Anna a few houses down. Fred is a firefighter and was near by in case anything got crazy. There are a few guys in the neighborhood who set the fireworks off themselves with a homemade switchboard. It was really cool to see how they did it.

Yearly water slide at the Baugh's

It was finally time to bring out the water slide. This is such a fun tradition. We have been enjoying it for several years now. The kids have so much fun but I think the adults end up acting more like crazy kids than the kids do. Andy had a bad knee so he couldn't play this time. After much fun we relaxed and had some lunch. Such a fun day was had by all.

Megan

Alexis

Alexis got a road rash on her face and that ended her day!


Someone always ends up bleeding and this year was no different!

Waterton vs Eastmont Cove

Tonight Megan swam against Eastmont Cove. She did a great job. We are really enjoying swim team. It is nice to have friends on the team. It was fun to see the girls at the end of the lane screaming for each other. Good times!
Tonight Megan swam...
25 yd backstroke 22.89 4th place rainbow ribbon -0.19
100yd medley relay 1:23.07 1st place (personal free 19.00)
Anna Calaicone, Ava Callis, Jayla Gillis, Megan Dollar
25 yd freestyle 20.33 5th place
25 yd butterfly 24.25 (her first time swimming this stroke) No ribbon
100yd freestyle relay 1:12.11 1st place (don’t know personal free time)
Anna Calaicone, Ava Callis, Jayla Gillis, Megan Dollar