WCHS Swim/Dive 2011

On August 1, I started coaching my 13th season as the Head Coach for the Wahlert Cathlolic Swimming and Diving Team. We are very young on the swimming side this year....and very experienced on the diving side. It should be a fun season!

My team....minus one girl and one coach

Returning State Qualifiers

2 Senior Divers - Betsy & Rachael

1 Junior Swimmer - Emily

2 Sophomore Swimmers - Lauren & Madelaine

CAPTAINS - Emily, Mary, Betsy

DIVERS

New Pictures!!!

I got some new pictures taken of the girls....while we went to get a 3 Generations picture with my mom. (It was her Mother's Day present to get a picture with the girls and I.) They turned out pretty cute!!!

Sisterly LOVE!

My ADORABLE Cubs fans!

Kelly - 5 yrs.

Molly - 2.5 yrs.

3 Generations!

We love you Grandma Peggy!

I'm a BIG GIRL now!!!!

We celebrated Molly being a BIG GIRL today!!!!

She hasn't had any potty accidents in a few weeks....so we thought it was time to celebrate!

We drove to Cedar Rapids this morning to celebrate Molly's BIG accomplishment!!!

(She was so incredibly EASY to potty-train....once again the complete opposite of Kelly!)

It was a fun day for all the girls.....Molly, Kelly, and our neighbor Lexi too! Lexi is so nice to Molly and plays great with both my girls!

Chuck-E with the girls!

PIZZA

Molly LOVED all the rides! She barely played any games with tickets.....she kept wanting to ride instead!

Molly in the Barney car!

HER FAVORITE RIDE!!!! She rode this at least 10 times!

Hugs for Barney!

Yeah Barney!

Riding the motorcycle!

On a boat ride with Daddy!

Daddy teaching Molly how to steer the boat!

Playing the water racing game with Lexi.

(Kelly had to help Molly aim!)

Froggy game!

Molly's favorite thing other than the rides!

Shark game!

ICE CREAM TREATS!

Rainbow push-ups!

I LOVE Kelly's expression in this picture! She was so excited that Daddy had picked a PINK ice cream bar (it was strawberry shortcake). Kelly told Daddy he didn't like pink and always says we have too much pink in our house! She thought it was so funny Daddy was eating a pink ice cream treat!

The "show" started on stage so the girls decided to watch it while finishing their ice cream treats!

The older girls finished their ice cream and the show was over.....so they went to play in the jungle gym area while Molly went back to her favorite place to finish her push-up!

All 3 sound asleep on the way home from a FUN day!

Potty training is complete in the Snyder household......up next.....

NO MORE BINKI for Miss Molly &

NO MORE THUMB-SUCKING for Kelly!

(I predict Molly's binki will be gone before Kelly stops sucking her thumb!)

Pool PARTY

Tonight was the Dyersville Library's summer pool party for the summer reading program! I'm HAPPY to say.....BOTH GIRLS LOVED THE POOL TONIGHT!!!!!

We thought we might stay an hour, since we already had a busy day at the fair....but we were wrong! We knew Kelly would LOVE the pool, but we weren't sure about Miss Molly. But...Molly decided she LIKED the pool tonight! She went in the deep water with me without a death grip around my neck! She also LOVED the water slide and kept saying "AGAIN!" I think we went down about 20 times! She played in the kiddie area and didn't care that her face was getting splashed! She was a totally different girl in the pool tonight! There is hope for my second child after all! :)

My two girls....loving the water just like their Mom!

Kelly went down the water slide A LOT.....at least 10 more times than what Molly & I did!

She also jumped off the diving board a lot too! She is so good about swimming to the ladder....she makes me smile!

The first time Molly is in the water with me that she doesn't have a death grip hold!

She's SMILING!

She LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the water slide!

I held her up at the end so she didn't go completely under water....look at her smile!!!

Daddy & Molly going under the mushroom!

Daddy & Molly all smiles!

Daddy playing with the girls in the kiddie area.

Stepping on water fountains...

...Molly playing in the water fountain...

...stepping on it...

...and putting her bottom on it!

(She would never even go close to these before tonight!)

What a fun night at the pool!

Dubuque County Fair

You gotta love a fun-filled family afternoon!!!

What makes it even better.....we only spent $10 for 5 hours of entertainment!!!

Brian and I took the girls to the fair today. We had been debating all week whether we should go. We didn't want to spend a lot of money...but we knew the girls would love it! When we got free admission tickets for the last day of the fair....we decided to go! We went early (9:30am) and got a great parking spot and the girls were able to see a lot of animals with little crowds!

The girls enjoyed seeing all the animals.....especially the rabbits!

Up next....a kids scavenger hunt at 10am in the big tent. Kelly LOVED the scavenger hunt....Molly didn't really finish. Molly received a participation ribbon and Kelly WON her age group. She finished the scavenger hunt of 15 items in 14 minutes!!!! (They gave you 45 minutes to complete). Kelly was lucky because one of the ladies she asked for an item wanted to help her out....and she helped her find 7 items on her list!!! Kelly won a $10 gift card to Jumpin Janes!!!

After the scavenger hunt the girls got air-brushed tattoos! We received the early bird special and only paid $2.50 each since the girls BOTH wanted GLITTER!

($5.00 of our total spent for the day!)

Kelly - a princess

Molly - a unicorn

Right next to the tattoo place was Matt's Family Jam music session. We joined it late when there was only about 10 minutes left for them to perform. Both girls loved playing instruments and hula-hooping with the family. Kelly was SAD when they were finished. There next performance was at 1:30pm and we didn't think we would still be at the fair at that time.

(Little did we know the girls were great and we finished our family fun-filled afternoon with a full jam session!)

Kelly showing off her hula-hooping skills!

Molly playing the maracas.

Then we were off to the tiger show.....this was Kelly's favorite tiger!

A tiger jumping through a hoop!

This tiger was walking on a tight rope.....this picture doesn't show how amazing that was.

The girls were able to pick TWO rides to go on! (The other $5.00 we spent)

This elephant ride was their FAVORITE!!!

Molly especially loved when it when high in the sky!

All SMILES after riding on the elephant!

Second ride....cruising in the purple car!

There were LOTS of buttons to play with in the car! :)

The next activity in the big tent at noon....making a sand art key chain!

The girls showing off their sand key chain creations.

(Kelly was VERY PROUD of her RIBBON she won for the scavenger hunt!!!)

...if you haven't noticed that it is in ALL the pictures!!!

(Yes, Molly is NOT wearing her glasses.....she switched from glasses to sunglasses all day and this was the in-between time while Brian went to get her glasses from the stroller.)

Daddy watching his favorite part of the day....the demo derby. Kelly wasn't quite sure about the loud cars!!!

She ended up covering her ears the rest of the time.....while holding her ribbon!

We ran into Tami and the girls after we ate lunch and Kelly invited them to the Matt's Family Jam Session while Daddy went back to watch more of the demo derby.

Kelly, Molly, & Racquel playing instruments while Helena plays the drums in the back.

Molly & Racquel rocking the drums!

Hula-Hoop time!

Thanks to Matt's Family Jam for a fun-filled time for the kids!!!
(Kelly said it was her FAVORITE PART!!!!!)

It was a great afternoon at the Dubuque County Fair!!!