Water Fun

Getting some air! One of our boys daily activities is swimming in the pool. They look forward to getting in and cooling off. They have fun doing cannon balls, and trying to see how far they can splash the water when jumping in. Brayden's turn! Baylor enjoying his little water melon float. Your one in a melon baby!!! He loves the pool splashing and kicking around.

Over the July 4th weekend we went to Family Camp with our church in Bison Ranch located in Payson, AZ. It is only about 3 hours north, but the temperatures are about a good 20 degrees cooler. We enjoyed cool weather, daily rain showers, fishing, fellowship, good food, and great company. This will definitely be a yearly event for us from now on. We had such a wonderful time and hated to come home.

Baylor watching the boys fish.

On this trip Bennett and Brayden both caught their first fish! They loved going each day to the little pond on the property and fishing with the boys.

Bennett actually reeled his fish in by himself.

Bennett holding his fish up. He was so proud of his catch. Bruce had actually caught a fish just prior to Bennett on this little Pirates of the Caribbean fishing pole. After he caught his fish, Bennett wanted to catch one, but we had no worms left except what was left on the hook. Bennett caught his fish within about five minutes of Bruce with the left over worm.

Look at Brayden's facial expression in the picture. He was so sad, because he wanted to catch one now.

So......

With the piece of worm that was left from Bennett's, Brayden caught another fish just a few minutes later. Talking about stretching a worm!!!! Look at the smile on that little boy's face. He was so happy to have caught a fish just like his daddy and brother.

He had a little help from daddy reeling his fish in.

Brayden's first fish.

About this time everyone else around the pond was seeing the boys real in fish after fish and came over to see how they were doing it. Bruce gave a few tips to some of the boys and fixed a few fishing rods and some of the other boys caught a fish or two themselves. Talk about some good fishing stories at dinner that night :o).

Water boys

This is a picture of Baylor I took on Sunday May 4th. He is only about 7 weeks into his band, but I can tell a huge difference with his head shape. I think his eyes look so sweet in this picture.

My little ham just after bath, before we put his band back on. The red spot on his forehead is from the pressure the band puts on his head. The tech. said it was basically heat rash.

No worries. My sweet boy. He has recently discovered his voice! My once quiet sleeping little babe, has now turned into an ear piercing babbler. Geesh, I thought maybe one of our three kids would be quiet, but it seems no such luck.

About 3 weeks ago we took on the daunting task of emptying our pool of 18,000 gallons of water, pressure washing the pool, and refilling. We had several pumps go bad, as well as needing to replace 4 filters, and replace all of the heads. Luckily all but the filters were under warranty. We had a real bad storm in the late summer of '07 which blew tons of dirt into the pool and it was so stained. The water levels were also way off, so the only way to prevent having to throw in tons of chemicals all summer is to start fresh.

These two pictures are of the pool about half empty taken from each end of the pool.

This picture was taken the following day after we cleaned and pressure washed the pool. As you can see, we refilled it the good old fashion way, two garden hoses :o). It took about 24 hrs. to add 18,000 gallons of water back in the pool. The boys played on the steps, they thought that was lots of fun.

Bennett with the pressure washer, and yes the water was turned off to it :o). Remember I am a mother of boys!!!

Excuse the oreo cookies on Brayden's mouth, I still thought it was a cute picture.

The last two pictures I took this past Sunday of the boys in the pool. Notice now how great the color of the water is. The levels are perfect, now it just needs to warm up about 10 more degrees before this mama gets in :o). This will be our third summer in Arizona, and the boys had always gotten in the pool in April regardless of the temperature.

I got some great shots of the boys mid air. They were having a blast as you can tell by the expressions on their faces.