This past weekend was nice. Friday night we went swimming at the YMCA in Bellingham. Well, the girls swam, anyway – it’s a pretty shallow pool, so I just walked around and made sure that Rebecca didn’t find a way to get her head underwater. The girls are making good progress, though.

After swimming, we went to Billy McHale’s for dinner. It was great, especially since we got to use our “thank you” gift certificate from Mike and Susanne! Thanks, guys! It’s a really great family restaurant – not terribly expensive, fun atmosphere, great food, and small portion desserts for less than $2! We’ll definitely be back.

Saturday was a standard chore day. I rented a lawn roller to try to smooth our back lawn out a bit – not sure if it’ll have any permanent impact, but hopefully it improved things a little. We finally got some rain in the afternoon and evening – in fact, it rained buckets, which seemed quite unusual after weeks and weeks of sunny weather. Unfortunately, Saturday night was spent at a five-hour emergency school board meeting…

Sunday was a nice, slow day – church, newspaper, etc. We also drove the girls and their bikes to a student parking lot of Skagit Valley College so that they could practice riding. Bethany is doing really well with her training wheels, and Sarah is making great progress without them! If we could just get her on the bike a little more, I know that she’d be a pro in no time.

And let’s not forget the Olympics. I’ll be glad when they’re over so that I won’t be tempted to watch so much television any more, but it has been fun to watch the Americans do their thing.