swim lessons

cari spent this past week taking private swim lessons at our kyle pool.

in years past they have both participated in the group lessons,

but we decided to try something different this year because cami was not interested in taking any more swim lessons. she completed the highest level last year and she would just be repeating that same class or 

joining the swim team, which she has very little interest in doing.

cari can swim on her own, but we wanted her to learn some

new swimming techniques this year and then let this be our last year with swim lessons.

her instructor, nikki, was wonderful!

she is the actual manager at the pool and i was very impressed

with all that she taught cari.
 she was also very flexible with our schedules.

nikki was blown away when she realized

cari was only 6 years old.

she told me that she took instruction so well 

and was very mature for her age.

chad and i are very proud of cari.

it was funny to see her get so tired

after each lesson. she was worked hard

but enjoyed every minute of it!

she was disappointed that her time with nikki was ending.

after her last lesson, on friday, we stayed to swim

at the pool. chad surprised us and took off early 

from work and came to join us.

we were all smiles when he showed up :)

cari calls this her "snorkeler"

earlier that morning we got shipley's do-nuts (cari's fav color is red)

cami's fav color is orange and we had never seen a do-nut like this!

this is what cari spotted at the bottom of the pool before diving in!

needless to say, this got nikki out of the pool and rushing for a net :)
thank goodness it was dead!