Summer Swimming

It can get pretty hot and humid in Oklahoma during the summer and this year was no exception.

So we spent a lot of time in the water.

 At first Kayla would never go into the pool without being held. Then finally after a couple weeks of swimming she discovered the POWER of her floaties and never wanted to be held again (which was wonderful!!). 

 Austin was also a little fish this summer and improved greatly on his skills. He mastered getting toys at the bottom of the pool.

 Every monday for the summer we would meet my sister-in-law & kids at Frontier pool and the kids would play there for hours!!

 Kambria and Kayla being naughty and climbing up the slide

So much fun!!

Sometimes I wish she could stay little forever (sometimes) 

This year Austin and Klayton were tall enough to go around the whirlpool section by themselves. At first Austin wasn't a fan of the whirlpool because he always got stuck going around and around and couldn't get himself out. But once I showed him how to get out he decided that he liked it.

I had trouble getting pictures of Austin because that little swimmer was always under water. 

 On fridays we went over to the Splash pad for playgroup and had lots of fun.

 There was some complaining by Austin that the splash pad was boring....but my sister-in-law Andrea had the genius idea of bringing buckets. 

And that was all it took...who knew how much fun could be found with filling up buckets with water.

Kayla and Kambria

Poor Kambria broke her arm in July but that didn't stop her one bit from having fun.

Klayton and Austin doing their own thing

On this particular day Kayla and Kambria were taking turns running over to Austin and giggling as he dumped water over their heads.

One day we drove down to Stillwater to visit a friend and she set this up for the kids to play.

A "homemade" water slide....the kids loved it.

Austin had an equal amount of fun catching the grasshoppers in their yard that day.

We also did lots of swimming at Papa Dave & Grandma Deb's pool this summer.

There was lots of jumping in from the deck.

Nice pose Conner.

Kayla got pretty good at jumping in too.

We also spent lots of time at my mom's house swimming both in the little pool.....

and in the big pool.

(Rachel, Tyler, Kayla and Austin)

Slip-N-Slide

Kayla and her friend Katelyn

Taking a swimming break

Apple smiles!!

Getting in one last swim before school started.

Even though Austin wouldn't give me anything but a pouty face in this picture, we had a super fantastic time this summer in the water!!