Swimming at A&M!

 Claire qualified for the invitational swim meet at Texas A&M this weekend! Since she is convinced she is going to go to college here, she of course was super pumped to get to swim in their pool!

My excited girl getting ready to swim her first ever long course meet in a 50 meter pool and her first time to ever swim in the A&M pool!

 Once she got onto the pool deck, it was a bit intimidating and her awesome coach could tell she was a bit nervous. He caught her and gave her a great pep talk and helped to calm her nerves. Thankful for dedicated coaches like Coach Rick!

 Jeff was timing so he was able to catch Claire after each of her events to congratulate her on strong swimming!

Thankful to share this experience with GMa...

 and Mama Lu and Papa Do! We sure are blessed with amazing support!

April Fools....on Claire (twice)!

Of course we can't let April Fools pass by without pulling a prank on Claire! This year Jeff got her donuts and cut one open and put mayo inside it! Claire took a huge bite and realized the joke!

 As you can see from her expression, she was not too impressed and you could just see the wheels turning in her brain on how to get back at Dad!

 All set...Claire got some Easter zebra cakes. The plan was to set a regular on on her plate and to take a sponge cut to the same shape and covered in frosting onto Dad's plate. Little did Claire know, Mom was behind the prank and when Claire went to get the camera (because we just had to have a picture of Dad biting into the sponge), Dad switched his sponge for a real zebra cake.

 Dad took his first bite and Claire couldn't believe he thought it was good! She started to laugh and couldn't hold it in! Jeff loved this and continued to eat his "sponge" until it was all gone! 

 Claire was absolutely floored that Dad ate an entire sponge and thought it was good! She had to spill the beans and let him know that he just ate a sponge in frosting!

 After a little bit of time, we finally told Claire that she had been fooled, again! She wasn't too impressed but did agree that we got her really good!

That silly Easter Bunny!

The Easter bunny came again this year to put Claire to work. Each year he has a clue in each egg which leads to the final basket of goodies. However, before going to find the next egg, he always makes Claire do some form of exercise. She loves doing this and it sure made for a fun Easter morning!

 Here Claire had to do jumping jacks before moving on to the next clue.

 The bunny makes her go from upstairs, to out back...

 to the front yard.

 Finally, Claire reached the final clue which lead her to her basket.

 I love that she gets so excited over little things and never even complained that her basket only had one little bag of candy in it! I love this kid!

Coloring Easter eggs

We are soaking up every moment that Claire still enjoys doing the simple things in life! We know they won't last much longer! We had a great time watching her dye Easter eggs a few weeks back.

Happy Easter...a little bit late!

I am just a bit behind on posting because our computer crashed. Here are some nice pictures we were able to take on Easter morning at church. What a great God we serve!