Baker Barracudas Swim Meet

Dallas after the Freestyle Relay
25 yard Freestyle
Pumped after winning the heat.
The second place swimmer wasn't far behind.
Dallas with her new friends, Eva and Carson

Wow what a weekend it was. Dallas tried out for the swim team a month ago and made the team. Last weekend was her first swim meet to compete in, and she loved it. On Saturday she swam in four events; 50 Freestyle, 50 Backstroke, 25 Breaststroke, and 50 Butterfly. She also was in a 100 Medley Relay. Sunday she swam three events; 25 Butterfly, 25 Freestyle, and 25 Backstroke. She did a Freestyle Relay too. If she didn't do her stokes correctly she would be DQ'd (disqualified). Her events were ages 8 and under. At 6 she was one of the youngest kids participating. She won two of her heats. Her 25 yard Freestyle she did in 26 seconds, and the 50 yard Backstroke she did in 1:02. She got 3rd place in both events. Not bad for the first time. Her Freestyle Relay team got first. Needless to say she was pumped and we loved watching her. Emma is excited for when she can be on the swim team too.

April Happenings

Last Wednesday night was the final night for this year's AWANA program. These are pictures of the awards night. Dallas and her friend got to lead the opening song!
Emma got an award for finishing her last Cubbie book. Good job Emma. In September she will officially be a Spark.
Dallas getting her award for finishing her Spark book. Great job Dallas!

Two proud kids
Emma and her Cubbie leader Miss Kelly. Dallas and Emma loved having her for their Cubbie leader. Thanks to all the AWANA volunteers!

Emma turned 5 this month and what would a birthday be without presents and a cake! A new Barbie horse from the Fillebrowns.

Make a wish!

New summer clothes from Nanny and Bompums.

We went to Boise so she and Dallas could celibrate at Chuck E. Cheese. Emma wanted Nanny and Bompums to go too so we stayed at their house.


Here's a few fun pictures at a kid's favorite pizza place.

Emma Nanny and Bompums


Eating that wonderful pizza!




During Spring break the girl's friend Logan Boothby came to Baker to visit. They invited her to go to lunch at Charley's Ice Cream Palor. They had a great time.

Spring Break at the Zoo

After Easter we headed out to Portland so the girls could go to the zoo. The night before we got to have dinner at The Olive Garden with our nephew Jeff. It was great to see him, it had been a year since he and and his girls moved to the Portland area.

A great picture of Jeff and "Uncle Buck"

The next day was "zoo" day and the girls were quite excited. They were given maps and took the job of navigating very seriously.

They were looking at some very big fish in this tank
The zoo has an area that is just like a farm so the girls got to hop on the tractor.

Then they hopped on the nearest horse.....

Then out to pet the goats.

After that it was off to see the baby Elephant.

Then we got to see the Polar Bears and boy were they performing for us. I love this picture I caught of a polar bear swimming on his back as Emma looked on.

My oh my bears are very big!

We got to go into the Lorikeet exihibit and the girls loved feeding them.

Emma looking very proud that one landed on her hand first.

We finally did what Emma came to the zoo for.....to ride the train. She was very happy.

Dallas checking out all the animals.

Sisters enjoying the ride.

Dallas took this picture of us. She did pretty good.

The next few pictures are of some of the animals we saw. The girls took most of these. Emma loves fruit bats so that's first on the list. She likes them so much she bought a stuffed animal fruit bat at the gift shop.

We had a great time at the zoo. We then headed to the Columbia river to meet up with friends. The day we left Portland it snowed and then snowed every where we went the rest of the week. Oh well it would have snowed at home too I'm sure. At least we were able to get out of town and the one nice day was Tuesday at the zoo.