MERRY CHRISTMAS 2011 • HAPPY HOLIDAYS • HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis

From the LEE Family (James, Xin, Jaden & Cameron)

From the Michaud Family (Brian, Irene, Khalil, Kaitlyn, Emily & Selena)

From the YEE Family (David, Ling, Daniel, Stephanie & Amanda)

The VU Family (Tina, Jeremy, Jared, Jordan & Brooke)

From the TRAN Family (Peter, Jennie, Taylor, Tyler & Sophie)

From the REBITZ Family (Bob, Pam, Sam & May)

From the CHEN Family (Lily, Christopher & William)

From the BAT-ERDENE Family (Bat, Helen, Anand & Eenee)

From the WONG Family (Michael, Melissa, Tiffany, Kevin & Katelyn)

From the LEONG Family (David, Christine, Taylor, Sydney & Diego)

Please send in your family holiday photos. I will be collecting them all the way through Chinese New Year's. Thanks.

December 2011

“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” - Franz Kafka

Happy Birthday, December babies!

Sophia Tran - 12/2

Victor Ung - 12/8

John Lim - 12/11

Tyler Tran - 12/13

Roy Tam - 12/17

Tucker Coad - 12/17

Jeremy Huynh - 12/27

Nathaniel Tran - 12/28

Amberlynn Tran - 12/31

Buy and Sell Raffles & WIN...

Pick up your raffle tickets to sell from Mr. Woo (Ed) at the pool.

NAPA VALLEY Swim Meet • November 12-13, 2011

"Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as you are having fun, but I can say that it becomes much more fun as you get older and learn more about the sport, life, and especially more about yourself". ~Scott Goldblatt

There you have it, young swimmers. You might as well enjoy this sport now so you get to enjoy it more =.) 

Photos by Mr. Peter Tran (Thanks, Peter!)

 Emily's first meet! Woohoo!

 Our 8 & under girls were swimming neck to neck.

 Mr. Nam Tran's first day to officiate. You know who to talk to when you get a DQ =.)

 And here's our tenthouse

Photos from Mr. William Chen (Thanks, William, for sharing!)

November Birthdays!

"I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colours are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content." ~Lin Yutang

Kristi Lee - 11/7

Sophia Lee - 11/10

Ethan Cheung - 11/13

Izek Avanessian - 11/15

Victoria Wong - 11/21

Ryan Szeto - 11/21

Henri Houdre - 11/21

Eric Chen - 11/23

Daria Doubnova - 11/24

Amanda Yee - 11/26


My sincerest apologies for not posting our November birthdays asap! This month arrived sooner than I anticipated. Wishing you all a fabulous birthday month. Lots to be thankful for.


If I missed anyone, please email me. Thanks.

WELCOME HOME!

ROSSI POOL IS NOW OFFICIALLY OPEN! At Last!

It opened on Friday, October 28th!

Welcome HOME, Rossi Swimmers!

It has been a long 11 weeks! Thank you for all your patience.

Rossi Pool will be closed from August 15th to October 2nd.

Update: Now extended to October 11th!

Update #2: Extended again to October 14th!

Update #3: Possible return to Rossi - October 18th or 19th. If not, everyone will be swimming at Sava Pool this week (of 10/17th).

Update #4: Rossi is still waiting for final inspection so opening should be on 10/31st.

During the closure, we will be swimming at 2 different pools:

Mike's swimmers:

King Pool, 4-6 pm

Monday through Friday

Billy's, Tim's, Anthony's swimmers:

Sava Pool, 4-6pm

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (not ON Wednesdays)

Sava swimmers are welcome to swim at King Pool with Mike on Wednesdays.

Zone 3 Championships • October 15, 2011 • Vallejo, CA

“The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” ~Margaret Carty

WORD FROM TINA VU (Team VP)

Hi Everyone,
Congratulations to the Rossi Swim Team!  We had a great meet this weekend and did quite well. Our team came in 4th overall out of 31 teams entered in the meet - only about 55+ points or so away from 3rd. We did not get a trophy this year but hopefully can place next year!

We'd like to acknowledge a few of the families for putting in extra effort this year since we had to handle hospitality for the meet on short notice:

Brian and Irene (Kaitlyn/Emily's parents) for going to the meet early on Friday to get our team a great space for set-up for the meet and Peter and Jennie (Taylor/Tyler/Sophia's parents) for taking down and bringing back all the canopies and helping out with team photography.

Nam and Jeannie (Nathaniel's parents) and Thuy and Duc (Amberlynn's parents) for ordering and prepping everything for the Vietnamese sandwiches served on Saturday.

Ed/Uncle Ed (Emily's dad) for ordering all the Chinese food for Sunday's meal and for Coach Mike who ran errands with us at Costco on Friday.

Coach Billy for picking up the food and lapcounters on Sunday.

Jeremy Vu (Jared/Jordan/Brooke's dad) for being our only official for both days allowing our team to get points at this meet.

Christine Leong (Sydney/Diego's mom) for being there to photograph the team for our wonderful blog!

And a big THANK YOU to all our Rossi parents that stepped in to time and prepare all the snacks and meals. It was really a team effort and we're so happy that everyone participated.

FYI, the Vallejo team that ran the meet said that we were "The Bomb".  Everyone really enjoyed all the food that we came up with and hope we can do something again. Oh dear....

And let's not forget the best - our kids were wonderful. Many of them volunteered to help with prep work and served the timers, coaches and officials too. Great job!

Cheers!
Tina

And THANK YOU, Tina, for ALL you do at every single meet.

Enjoy these snapshots from that day! Thanks, Emily (Woo) for taking some pictures for me. We might not have received a trophy that day but I think we got first place in teamwork. Go Rossi!

More photos HERE. Remember to link back to this blog when you share these photos. Thanks.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OCTOBER BABIES!

"October's the month

When the smallest breeze

Gives us a shower

Of autumn leaves.

Bonfires and pumpkins,

Leaves sailing down -

October is red

And golden and brown."

-Can Teach Songs

Have a Fabulous Birthday!

Justin Huynh - 10/20 

Megan Nguy - 10/20

Samuel Hong - 10/21

Morgan Hill Meet • Sept 3-4, 2011 • Part 3 • Families

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family." ~Anthony Brandt

Here are family photos from the Labor Weekend meet. If we didn't catch you, we will in one of these meets. (Thank you for some of the photos, Peter.) Make sure to check out other photo links from previous posts.

 

 

 

 

 Enjoy the children while they are yet "little" ~ they grow up so fast. From our family to yours.

"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."  ~Franklin P. Jones