When I got in the car to take T.J. to prechool this morning, the thermometer said 5 degrees, so I thought this would be an appropriate post for today. I am not allowed to complain about the weather on this blog becuase two of my brothers and their families live in Wisconsin where the high temperature today is going to be -5 degrees with a wind chill well below that. So, I won't complain, but ... it seems we are probably about halfway through Winter which is a good time to start looking forward to summer if you ask me.
This past summer, Melanie had the great idea to set aside one day each week for swimming. We chose Wednesday and off we went. Every week we went swimming and we didn't get a pass anywhere, so we tried out a bunch of different pools (American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Scera). If you remember gas prices last summer and the cost of admitting 11 people to the pool every week, it started to get a little pricey, but we had a great time. It turns out my kids will actually swim for four or five hours and then I still have to drag them out of the pool kicking and screaming.
About halfway through the summer, we started going to the Camp Williams Pool (thanks Monica!) and I think my kids liked this pool the best. It was almost never crowded and some weeks, we had the pool all to ourselves. It was so much fun, and my kids have been asking for a few month when we are going back, and I find myself thinking of a nice relaxing day at the pool. I'm just a summer sort of girl I guess. I really probably belong in St. George or Arizona or some other deathly warm place. I just love the heat and the sun.
We had an end-of-summer family party Labor Day Weekend and the dads got to come. So these pictures are of James and Dave playing a little game they like to call "Kid Basketball." They started off by finding the two most willing kids who also have to be light-weights (in this case, London and Jared) and started throwing them up in the air and tossing them around in the pool. Then they had to make it more challenging by creating obstacles to their little game. They put out water noodles to see if they could throw the kids past them. And then of course, they got out the tubes and started trying to land the kids in (or through) the tubes, hence the name, Kid Basketball.
I know what you are thinking, and no they (James and Dave) were not unattended and left to their own devices at the time. Monica, Lisa, Melanie, and I were all standing nearby, and in fact, I believe we were the ones taking pictures. I remember being surprised at how high the kids were going, but I might have not realized they were going this high.
The kids loved it of course. The older kids all stood around and egged them on, and London and Jared kept coming back for more. If you look closely, you can see the big smiles on James and Dave, and I think we know who was having the real fun here ... they were pretty proud of themselves if I recall.
