The latest

1. My sister has been called to Guatemala, Guatemala City, South! Kari got her call and we are all so excited for her. My brother Garrett totally called it too. I'm excited because I lived there for a semester and loved it, and it will be fun to have another Spanish speaker in the family. She will be such and awesome missionary.

2. Swimming lessons. I found these incredible private swim lessons through word of mouth. There 10 minutes a day, four days a week for three weeks. This is our last week and I am SO IMPRESSED at how well my boys are doing! It makes me feel so much safer to see them fearlessly jumping into the water and coming up and getting on their bakes to float all by themselves. The whole idea behind the lessons is water safety, so they work on teaching them to do shorts burst of swimming alternated with rests and breathing while floating on their backs. They teach them all this by really watching their head position and through fun activities and positive reinforcement. And because they're only 10 minutes (but its all one-on-one and they are working the entire time) the kids leave the pool at the peak of the excitement/energy level. It's really pretty incredible.

3. T-ball. This is Josh's first summer doing Tball and it is so much fun.