Memorial Box Monday - A break from the heat

What do you do the first day you fill up the pool??? You make a boat out of a baby pool and play pirates with your cousins of course.

Jeremiah loves to swim Josiah does tooOh and this is the greatest blessing of all - the kids take great naps after swimming (look at that beautiful skin and the rolls of pudge on his thighs!! He has come a long way)

We are thankful to the Lord for providing so much more than our needs. The swimming pool has been a great blessing to us and we have not only enjoyed swimming in it at least twice a day, but also having several families over to swim the last week and a half. It is a great motivation to get school work done and it is so nice in this 114 degree heat! It is virtually impossible for me to take all the kids to the public pools by myself since we have 4 non-swimmers, but this way we can swim during the boys' naps or they can play on our baja or we can all swim when Daddy gets home. We purposely built a huge baja step that is about 2 ft deep with a shooting fountain and a drink/jumping rock so it works for the whole family. So for this Memorial Box Monday we are putting in a pool tile to remind us that God blessed our socks off and provided this pool.