Swimming with Olympians

 Sunday I took AK to Birmingham to a freestyle clinic taught by 2 former Olympic swimmers, Klete Keller and Lacey Nymeyer. They got to try on some of their Olympic medals!! The facility it was at was absolutely awesome!! Wish we had Life Time Fitness here.

 The water slides at the pool (what they really wanted to do)!

 Here is AK about to race Lacey

They all got to go down the slides after it was over--this is her friend Autumn (I wasn't ready with my camera when of course AK had to go down first.)

2015 John Servati Memorial Invitational Swim Meet in Tupelo

 Game Faces!!

 Start for the 100 Meter Free

 Pre-warmups Saturday morning

 Start of the 50 meter Free

 Traditional pre-race dancing to loosen up

Start of the 100 meter back. You can see AK cares a little more about her swimming tats than some.

Snow Day 2015

 It's been snowing nonstop for about 6.5 hours here. So far we have gotten about 8 inches with no sign of slowing down. We actually all got to come home and play in it this afternoon.

 Running start on the snow tube!

 The lake in front of our house

 Michael setting the record for furthest sled down the hill in our backyard.

Ava had a blast!

Orange Bowl

 Even though we lost, Michael and I had a great time in Florida and attending the Orange Bowl. Hailstate!!

 

December Trip to Nashville

 We spent a weekend in December to take AK to the Nutcracker and see family. She loves the Nutcracker, but she likes spending time with her cousins more. Here she is right before we left town with 2 of her cousins (and Uncle Wayne with the photobomb).

 Apparently, she is an excellent rock climer!

Poles!

                                                            First day skiing with poles

Steamboat Springs

We took AK to Steamboat this year. She had such a great time skiing. She was dressed before 7am and always wanted to be the last off the mountain each day. She wants to know why we can't move there so she can ski every day after school. She also got poles this year after day 3 (which was a huge deal for her...like a status symbol for little kids, I guess!) She became pretty good at skiing moguls and got to ski through a half pipe several times.

We waited in this position several hours before another skier came by to take this picture. (JK!)