Swimming Fun

Over the past week it has officially become summer to me because now it seems it that every day must involve some type of water activity...It started down at the Lake of The Ozarks in a very dirty and cold lake. The intention of the weekend was to go water skiing....unfortunately it was the first trip down with the boat and apparently the boat decided it didn't want to work, so that left the paddle boat and some floaty things. It was still fun and I was able to spend some time trying to get my kids back into the swimming thing...Last year at this time I couldn't keep Kylie out of the water and this year I had to do a lot of work to get her in for even a little while. And Owen was more than happy to just hang out on the dock playing with a noodle. But thankfully I have been to two more lakes and a wonderfully clean swimming pool since getting home from the Ozarks on monday and Kylie is now back into jumping in quite frequently, and Owen is getting used to me dunking him under and having him swim to the side :) We are also getting nicely tanned and maybe a little burned along with Ky & Owen's hair starting to look more white than blonde...really cute.
And in the past couple of weeks with all the warm weather and thunderstorms my garden has now exploded! The squash is beginning to take over, my peas have climbed as high as the fence and my cilantro is begging me to make salsa....soon very soon.