Enjoying the cooler weather...

I woke up yesterday morning freezing! The cooler weather lately has been very nice but my dear husband has got to stop turning our ceiling fan on full blast! I am definitely enjoying the days where the temps stay in the 70's. But once it gets really cold I will break out my complaining.

I

hate

the

cold.

I enjoy pleasantly cool, but not cold. This past weekend it was cool enough for me to swim in my spiffy new wetsuit at the lake. I was nervous at first since I hear it can feel restrictive on your arms and breathing. But it. is. fantastic. I love that thing. Well, I don't love the 'I look like a super beached whale' full-body suit effect, but swimming is another story. This is what you are supposed to look like in the wetsuit...

Yeah, not gonna happen. We did the usual swim out to the buoy, over one buoy and back in --which is around 800 meters or so. We also practiced mass starts. I hate mass starts. ha!

This is the bay at the lake. Some days it is windier (read...choppier) than others but I always enjoy the view from shore. Can you see the buoys out there?

It always looks farther from shore than it really is once you start swimming. My last race of the season is a little less than two weeks. I'm already a little nervous! But I'm also looking forward to changing up the schedule (yet again) for the off-season.

Tristen's first soccer game of the season is this weekend -- he can hardly contain himself. He is really liking school but I cannot keep up with the amount of papers they send home every day. Does anyone have a good organization method for that?? They do have some very fun ideas as well. This is one of the 'traveling books' they have made. The children in the class all help create a book which then 'visits' each child's home for a day. It helps promote reading as well as assist them in getting to know all the children in the class. I thought it was a very fun idea!

The Class Book

Even the teacher drew a picture...

Tristen's self-portrait...apparently he has a big head.

Hope you are all enjoying the cooler weather as well!