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Photo for Springbrook's Swimmer of the Week board. It's summer, and the Mermaid is in her Element.
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Allyndreth's Dance for Musical Theatre class in the Spring Show - "Just Be" from Kinky Boots
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"Just Be" from Kinky Boots
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"Just Be" from Kinky Boots
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After-swim-meet relaxing.
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Well, it was relaxing...
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In the dressing room, shopping for swim suits.
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We were the temporary caretakers of a pool slide. Before we sent it off to its permanent home, we had a little 4th of July fun.
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4th of July 2017
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For a year, Evya wanted her 8th Birthday Party to be a cooking party with friends. The big day finally arrived, with the help of the Cooking with Kids Foundation at the Lafayette Community Center.
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The chefs gathering...
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Into the kitchen with chef Linda to learn how to make pizza dough.
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The Flour Girls, Jasmine and Evya.
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Making two individual pizzas, one for the party and one to bring home.
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They also made freeform bread with seeds and spices.
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While the pizzas and bread were in the oven, the chefs decorated aprons to take home.
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After eating their culinary creations, it was time for Evya to share her homemade red velvet cupcakes with fudge frosting.
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Claire, Evya, Gretchen and Isaac, celebrating a successful day in the kicthen.
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Home to open gifts.
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Tyrian pruning the roses on a gorgeous summer day.
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He likes the two-tone roses best. This one is called Ketchup and Mustard, and is red on the outside with gold on the inside.
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As has become a tradition, Evya donned her swim parka to celebrate her 8th birthday.
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At Springbrook Pool, the tradition for the birthday kids is to do a solo birthday swim while teammates create choppy water with kickboards.
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After the swim, we handed out ice cream sandwiches to all.
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Birthday lunch at The Cooperage, selected specifically for their Mac 'n' Cheese.
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Evya spent her birthday afternoon with Tyrian playing with his gift to her, Gallium.
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They heated it, passed it back and forth...
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...and then poured it into molds to make Lego men.
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Ta-da!
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Birthday cupcakes to end a busy day of partying and fun.
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8-year-old Ninja Warrior!
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Allyndreth spent half her summer in the pool and the other half on Treasure Island. Here she is playing Jim Hawkins' Father.
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She also played Blind Pew.
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And she was part of the pirate crew. Lots of stage combat = lots of fun!
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Monday morning brunch following the Lafayette Swim Conference Championship weekend. Tyrian is wearing the Wheel Kids uniform of his summer job as an assistant coach, teaching younger kids to ride a bike and taking older ones on biking adventures.
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"Hamilton" in San Francisco!
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Post-Hamilton dinner at Metro.
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The North Carolina Engelbrechts visited for a week.
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Sunday morning brunch and pool party at Grammie's and Opa's.
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For our traditional Summer Birthday Party, we did a family cooking class at Sur La Table.
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Clara's 9th birthday dinner at Gaumenkitzel in Berkeley.
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Swarming poor blind Uncle Matt during Marco Polo.
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Extended Family portrait 2017
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After the final swim meet of the season, the girls began the summer where they started - collapsed onto Tyrian.
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Tyrian with his Wheel Kids charges at BART going to ride across the Bay Bridge for the final outing of the summer.
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