Return-ING

    My three guys, Matt the preppy kid, Alex the cool dude, and Mark enjoying that he still has a full head of hair and can wear his college clothing, i.e. this leather jacket he likes to gad about in.  As you can see, he still also has his original Easter basket from when he was a child.  Very important to keep all our Easter baskets up high so that curious Tibbies do not get into the ones with chocolate in them...chocolate and doggies apparently do not mix.  That does not, however, stop them from trying to eat chocolate...especially if peanut butter happens to be included.   I figured the guys would be well on their way to not caring about the coloring of the Easter eggs, but as you can see, we have a nice nest of them...all three of them contributing.

      Trust you all had a very happy and blessed Easter holiday.  Oops...not many photos, actually only a few for the scrapbooks of the guys coloring eggs as someone forgot about toting the camera around much this weekend...that would be me in case there was any doubt in your mind. 

      Very busy week coming up, especially with swimming Central Zones all day Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday...but hey, they are here in Indianapolis this year at the Nat, so a great deal of rejoicing about the venue! 

      Talk about humbling...Matt is one of a handful of the youngest qualifying for zones, so his times are what we refer to around here as "squeakers," meaning that one just barely makes it in with an qualifying cut and he is not seeded high enough to make any cuts to come back for finals sessions, etc. this year.  Chris sent out the pysche sheets, so I took a glance just for fun, and Matt is seeded thusly (which I guess is not bad considering his age and all, but he looked at it and said, "Well...I am certainly swimming with some of the big guns in this meet."  No kidding.):  50 Free, he is 53rd out of 95; 100 Free, he is 80th out of 117; 200 Free, he is 89th out of 113; and 100 Back, he is 38th out of 79.  There are 117 clubs represented, almost 600 athletes from the Midwest central zone area, swimming 2,305 events.  If you want to know any more than that, here is the site:  http://www.dolphins.iupui.edu/sectionals.html and you can have at it, although only the distance pysche sheet is posted on the site and Matt is not distance, as I am sure you all know by now.  Not sure about relays...he is hoping to qualify for something, but I am thinking maybe next year is a better bet on those.  He is going into the meet with the attitude of just making better times.  Once you have a time, they can't take it away from you, so that is always the number one goal for Matt for any meet:  just get out there and get a new best time.  He is fairly good at it.

     I was going to post my great attempt at coloring eggs a la Martha Stewart, but that will need to wait for tomorrow as I have places to go and things to do, so I am outta here NOW.  Have a good one!