Ryan, The High Dive, and a Fight with the ground.......

Ok so the apartment pool is not working today for some reason.  So we packed up our pool gear and went to Alan Bolden Pool.  That's where my mom took me as a kid.  That is where I learned to swim, dive, and how NOT to dive off the high dive.  Overall things went great...............UNTIL..................................

Ryan decided to get into a fight with

the concrete earth. Needless to say, he lost.

Just before Ryan decided to slam his 

face into the earth, we had talked him into 

jumping off the high dive.  

At this point and time, he had already 

jumped off the low dive several times.

This was a lucky shot that I happened to get.  He asked me to count to 3 for him to jump.  I did w/o pausing and he jumped on 3 with no hesitation.  Jim and I were both shocked out of our minds.  We both expected him to hesitate and take a few minutes once he got up there, but he didn't.  He even went back and jumped several more times after I put up the camera.

This is one of the last times he jumped.  

He gave us a thumbs up sign right before he jumped.

This was taken right after his first jump off the high dive.  Jim stayed in the water....just in case.  Ryan came up with this gigantic smile and proceeded to jump off the high dive several more times.  I just couldn't believe how much he enjoyed it.  I jumped twice and that was enough for me.  Jim however only jumped once.  And that was on a dare from Ryan......hmm.....

All in all we had fun today and I'm glad that our pool wasn't working.  I never would have thought he would love the diving boards the way he did.  It was great.  I just can't believe that he is big enough to jump off the diving boards into 13' of water now...........Where has the time gone......................

4th of July

So this year we were on the AHS Alumni Band float. It's amazing to me that after 10 years I still remember all that music and antics. We had a blast getting ready for the parade as well. We were decorating the float until midnight the night before the parade. The joy of that was that we had to be in our spot at 7:00 AM. Talk about memories. We even got a shirt for Ryan. He's going to be class of 2020. I got some cute pictures of him. The coolest part for the band geek in me is that I got to sit right next to Ms. Corey. He husband is the Late Dean Corey. He was the first band director for AHS and he also wrote our fight song. I put some pictures up on facebook, but I will also put them here too.

Ryan hard at work 

decorating the float.

The finished float.  Looking good.

Getting warmed up to play.

I look silly here.

Here we go.  Jim is our 

fearless driver.

We're 21 years apart in school.

Like mother like son.

So we had fun and continued a parade tradition that started so many years ago when I was in my first parade.  I had a friend ask me if I would ever retire from parade duties.  Maybe someday, but as a family we just have too much fun in the parade to stop.  

On another note, this Friday is the first meeting of the Class of '99 Reunion committee.  It will be fun to see where we all are now.  Lots of hard work to come.  I can't wait.

I hope everyone is having a great summer.

Kristina

Ryan's Home!!!!!!

Well Ryan came home on Monday for the week. He has to go back to his dad's to finish out the month. I can't wait until he comes back. We're pretty much spending the week down by the pool. Jim has been working half days this week and he's off on Thursday and Friday. We're going on a Staycation. Pretty much gas is too expensive to go anywhere so we're staying in Arlington and having fun at home. I don't think our car will really make it too far anyways. We love it though. I can't complain. It has 4 wheels, it gets us from point A to point B. It has a really small gas tank and gets pretty good mileage. When we do get a new car, I still want to keep it. I think I've become attached the the old bucket of nuts. Besides as much as we've had replaced on it recently, it's almost like new again. Sort of........... Well Jim will be home soon. I better get to making lunch for us so that I can get Ryan down to the pool. All morning it's been "Can I eat again?" and "Can we go to the pool now?"

By all,
Kristina