UPDATE!

It has been awhile since I have updated our blog..the last few months have been very busy with refereeing, Haylea's swimming/basketball and Tate's basketball.  It is all finally OVER!!  But boy does it make the winters fly by!  We finished up our very busy winter with Haylea's last basketball tournament last weekend in Columbus..They were champions.  Their team name is RUKUS! They are the shortest team in 6th grade but they are the scrappiest team.  They have improved so much from November and they actually looked like a basketball team, making game winning hook shots, free throws and fast break lay-ups!  Our biggest girl is probably 5'1" 105lbs and then there is Haylea...5'0" 85 lbs.  They had to guard 5'8 160lbs!!!  These girls were HUGE for 6th grade!!!  And the guards for our team are very short!  But boy did we make it difficult for the other team to get the ball down the court.  The Rukus will be very good once they all go through their growth spurts next year.  It will be exciting to watch them grow over the summer!

Haylea finished her swim season the first weekend in March at the State Short Course (25 yard pool) Swim Meet in Butte, MT.   She did very well!  She finished 9th 50 back, 9th 200IM, 8th 200 back, 4th 400IM, 6th 50 fly, 7th 100 back, 12th 100IM, and 1st in the 200 FR Relay!  She took time off all of her swims!  A very long weekend and the top 8 swam in the finals (except the 400IM).  She is on a break from swimming right now and will start back up in a few weeks.

Tate played basketball this winter too!  He has just started to play on a traveling basketball team.  They have practiced about 4 times together and will play tomorrow night in a tournament.  We will miss the games on Sat and Sun because we will be in Helena...I am taking on the challenge/embarrassment of swimming in the Montana Masters State Swim Meet this weekend.  It is more for fun, a couple of us from my swimming group that I swim with are going (and Ty and the kids) and we are just going to have fun...and swim in a relay or two together.  I know Haylea's times are going to be WAY faster than mine so it will be a weekend for her to feel good about beating me in something!

Tate has just started baseball this week too.  He made the 9-10 majors!  The 9 year olds have a chance to try out for majors and play with the 10 year olds...and Tate made it!  His first practice is tonight.  I think he is a little nervous, but I am sure he will do just fine.  I will have pics up from his games when they start!  I hope all is well with everyone and we love you all!

I have put some pics from the State Swim Meet in Butte on here...not very many of her swimming, but you get the idea of what a swim meet entails.  Enjoy the spring time weather...before you know it we will be complaining of how hot it is!

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Haylea is the one in the rainbow swim cap...she swam her best time in the 50 fly...she took 1.4 secs off!  that is a lot in a 50!!  She won her heat in her age group....

Lane 3 Place 7:  100 back time-  1:16.61

Love, Elkin's