A Swim in a Waterpark, well...sorta

A few weekends ago, our friends John and Kelly invited us to go swimming at The Pointe Tapatio Resort where they were staying.

Bird's eye view of: The Pointe at Tapatio

The place has like 5 pools, one of which is referred to as The Falls. Just to walk into The Falls they ask you for your name and room number, plus you have to wear a wristband.

The pool was nice, I must say. Abundant with, you guessed it, waterfalls...as well as a water volleyball area and a separate beach-like entrance on one side (which provides a shallow area), making it more enjoyable with small children. However, the most impressive and popular thing about this pool is the fabulous waterslide!

Waterslides

They also have a lazy river, which was a little too boring for my broad, but I still think it's worth mentioning! Lazy River
After zipping down the totally enclosed waterslide, it dumps you into a small, moderately deep wading pool that is for the exiters of the waterslide only ( just like all the waterparks have). Both Christopher and Marley went down twice and Javier went once. I totally got gypped on the waterslide, but that's okay because I got to swim and have fun with Jaxon!

Anyways, Jaxon and I waited in the nearby pool which had a perfect view of the waterslide exit. Javier had to be "ball-ready" (hands-free) to help Marley/Christopher get out of the wading pool safely, so neither of us got a picture of our kids coming out of the slide...bummer! So, you all will have to settle for pictures of them after we were done swimming:

Christopher: happy to be swimming!

Christopher & Marley: not too thrilled to leave, but happy nonetheless.

Jaxon: fish outta water!

Thank you, Kelly & John!!!

Swimming season is here and Jaxon is prepared

This little cutie patootie absolutely refused to wear floaties last year.

Now, I can't keep them off of him...he even fell asleep on the couch with them still attached! Jaxon just tickles me pink with his antics.

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!