Saturday and Sunday - Busy But Fun Weekend!

Ken and I were able to do some of our morning routine before leaving at 8:15 to go to Bria and Cali's swim meet that was held here in Lititz.  It was a dual meet with LOTS of teams, but fortunately no relay races.  When you have "heats" for about 5 different age groups doing all of the strokes, it takes a long time.

In between some of the races, we were able to go to the areas where the girls waited for their next event and fortunately that was in the shade.  Most of the time we were sitting on bleachers in the hot sun and it got very warm as the meet progressed!  The girls did well, but it is a bit of a different year for them.  Last year they were the oldest in their age groups, but both of them moved up this season and are now the youngest competitors in their age brackets.  So, a lot of the swimmers have at least a year or 2 of more experience than Bria and Cali and though they are doing extremely well, their times will not put them in the upper rankings, at least not at these large dual meets.  They seem to be okay with that and keep working and practicing really hard to continue to get better.  But, for their age, there times are amazing!

Cali is ready for her next swim!

Bria is looking so grown-up!

Ken and I left around 12:15 and headed back home to have lunch.  By then the temperatures were in the upper 80's!  Ken read and relaxed while I started trying to glue the shells we had found in the shadowbox we had bought to display them on the wall.  I tried different kinds of glue before discovering that the hot glue gun worked the best, but what a job.  I only had about 1/4 of it done when Ken left for his Step Study at 2:30.  It took me till almost 4 to get all the shells glued in the box, but I was very pleased with the result.

Lanie's family arrived at 4 and after some chatting, we walked to Lititz Springs Park so the girls could play on the equipment.  Ken joined us around 5 and we all walked to the local authentic Mexican Restaurant for Ken's Father's Day dinner.  From there Ken and I offered to get the girls ice cream at a local homemade ice cream shop.  When they finished their cones (which they shared with the adults), all of us walked back to the apartment.  By then it was 7:30 and they decided to head back home.  Tomorrow Lanie's family is meeting friends at Hershey Park where they will spend the day enjoying all the amusement rides.  So, the girls needed to get to bed at a reasonable time!

If only we could get Samantha to smile!  Katelyn is always
ready to strike a pose!

Ken and I spent the evening relaxing and by 9:15 we were in bed!

Sunday, we were up early enough to get most of our morning routine completed before leaving for church.  It was a very good sermon on how to control angry and there were many useful "tips" on how to stop it before it becomes "full blown".  Although neither Ken nor I have a tendency to really get angry, there were helpful tidbits on how to just control thoughts that could lead to anger, definitely things for us to learn.

After church, we were invited to Jamie and Dane's for a Father's Day brunch - how nice!  When we arrived, Bria and Cali were busy in the kitchen helping Jamie prepare the sticky bun French Toast and the western quiche.  Grandma had a chance to help Bria make the topping for the French toast.  It was so good to see the girls learning how to be cooking and baking helpers.

Such helpers in the kitchen!

Even Grandma got in on the act!

When the "goodies" were in the oven, Ken, Jamie, Dane and I sat outside chatting and it was so nice to have time just to share life with them.  All 6 of us got to eat the delicious food outside and then it was time for more adult conversation while the girls kayaked on the creek with their neighborhood friends.  Bria and Cali are so fortunate to have many friends  so close by and a creek in their backyard!

Ken and I left there at 2:30 and I spent the afternoon playing some games on my tablet, doing my exercises, and then doing some counted cross stitch.  Ken went for a long walk but I decided to decline the offer to join him!  After dinner we played two rounds of Hand and Foot of which Ken is leading AGAIN!  I also had a great phone conversation with Noela.  Ken and I are looking forward to our road trip to Canada after the 4th of July to spent time with Ernie and Noela and Barry and Deb.  I hope the Canadians will allow us Americans to enter their country!  Hopefully they will not detain us to check if we are guilty of anything before we can be on our way!

By 9:15 we were in bed to do some reading.  It has been a wonderful weekend.