Summer Recap

 I have been very slow at getting up the pictures from our vacation so now I'm way behind so I'm going to put a bunch of our summer pictures all at once.

 Most of our summer was spent in some kind of water.  John's parents live near a lake so we spend a lot of time there with them.  Its a small beach so there are never a lot of people around so the kids have the run of it and they like that.

 This year was the first time Aaron was able to make it out to the dock by himself.  He is a much stronger swimmer this year so he had the confidence to get out there.

 He still wont jump off but he did have a good time just swimming around.  Katie and Zach love to swim out there and jump off.  They even started doing front flips and Katie even tried a back flip and she did pretty good until she hit her back on the corner and didn't want to try again.  They are all such strong swimmers that it makes hanging out near the water much more fun.

 One afternoon our 2 cousins around Zach and Katie's age came over and the 3 girls had fun jumping off the dock together.

 Our nephew Seany comes out with us once in a while and the kids love to swim and play in the sand with him as well.

 One time uncle Sean dug the kids a huge hole in the sand and they filled it up with water so the kids soaked there feet for a while, they loved it.

 We also spent lots of our time at John's Aunt Joyce's swimming in her pool and meeting up with some of our other cousins.  They love to swim in the pool and they love to take turns going down the slide.

 We tried to get the kids together with some of their friends whenever possible.  One day when we had some friends over Katie put together a water stand and the kids went out and tried to sell some water to the few cars that pass by our house.  They did really well at making signs and flagging down passing cars and they were able to get 2 cars to stop and buy their water. They had fun and that's what matters most.

 When they were done selling water we set up a slip and slide and they had a blast sliding down the hill together.

Zach was asked to be on the All Star 9 year old summer baseball team so we ended up spending a lot of time doing more baseball than I wanted but Zach had fun even though their team was not very good and they ended up losing all of their game.  We had a great summer and did lots of fun things together.