Wednesday, August 13, 2008

We love the things that Summer brings


As one of my favorite summer books, Summer, declares "we love the things that summer brings". Indeed, we do love summer and all the water activities, watermelon and popsicles that go along with the season! (sans the heat, of course)
So, here are some activites we have kept ourselves busy with this summer. Both here at our house and at Nana and Tata's house (they have the pool).
First pictures are of the kids on the slip n' slide at our house...
Christopher showing us how it's done.

*Look at Marley getting into it in the background!Marley only likes to slide on her knees. I guess she is still timid of sliding on her belly.Jaxon just loves to push his Lightening McQueen toy around the slip n' slide.Catching some rays...and saying cheese!

Now, on to the pool pictures...

From left: Christopher, Marley, Geli, Javier & Jaxon.

Christopher and his beloved Badmiton racket.

(A combo volleyball/badmiton set was bought by Carlos for the pool and it has never worked right, so the net is never up)

My love, enjoying himself with our kids in the pool :)

Javier and Christopher~catching some major air. What fun!

Christopher, Marley and Geli jumping into the pool. Marley likes to get a head start on the rest of them!

Most of the time Jaxon likes to float around in this frog the whole time!

Christopher~mid-jump!

(Half way through swimming on this day, he decided he no longer needed floaties and was proving it to us!)

Marley and Geli showing us their moves. Awesome jumping girls!

As the time flew by, Marley swam up to me and said:

"Mommy, my fingers are pruney!"

Me: "Yeah, that's because you have been in the pool for a while now"

Marley: "Yeah, it's time for me to get out. I don't like the pruney!"

What a funny girl!

Here is one of my nieces, Geli, as she gets out for more jumping.

Jaxon, still in his floatie and happy!

Swimming is so much fun!

1 comments:

sara said...

What a bunch of cute kids! And - I'm totally jealous of your DirecTV Olympics experience!

You've really been on a roll lately with new posts; don't stop :)