Fourth of July

This year for the Fourth of July we (Kevin and I) started the day with a 10k race. Marilyn, Charlie, Keri and Brendan did the 5k run/walk. Marin and Andrew stayed behind with Lisa, Kyle, Emily and Grandpa. The weather was pretty warm. Kevin finished in around 49 minutes and my time was 54:44. I was a little disappointed in myself--I had to stop to tie my shoes twice during the race. I didn't follow one of the cardinal rules of racing which was to double knot my shoes. After the race, we hung around in Ridgefield till the parade. Andrew rode on the Sewer District float while Norm walked along side. Andrew seemed to enjoy himself. The rest of us just watched the parade, sweating, while the kids grabbed all the candy they could. After the parade, we went back to the Harker house and played in the pool, bocce ball, horse shoes, and ate. Everyone kind of did their own thing. We had a wonderful dinner--stuffed ourselves silly on fruit pizza and Charlie's chocolate chip cookies. When it got dark, we lit off fireworks. It was an action-packed day. Everyone seemed to have a great time.

Swimming Lessons

I have been bad about enrolling the kids in swimming lessons for the past few months. The last time they took them was back in October. I just got busy with the holidays and school and then baseball season came around and here we are and we are finally getting back to them. I mistakenly enrolled Andrew is the class that he already passed, although Andrew caught my mistake and I got it changed before classes started. I had Marin on the waiting list since her class was filled up. I finally got her in the weekend before her class started. Both of the kids are getting to be very good swimmers. Andrew's lessons are all in the lap pool. They swim laps of different strokes for the whole class. He thinks it's pretty boring, but he is getting much stronger. Marin's class is more fun. They chase after rings that are thrown into the deep end and other fun stuff. I hope to get at least one more session of swimming lessons squeezed in this summer.