Swim Lessons

Corbin had swim lessons this week. I always like to practice what he is learning at lessons so I try to go swimming a few times during swimming sessions. On Tuesday I met Anna and her kids at the Meridian pool to swim. My three little ones and Lexi stayed in the kiddie area and Anna's three big kids and Corbin swam in the main area. Anna watched my kids for a few minutes while I grabbed Corbin and made him practice a few things. My three little kids really liked the kiddie pool and I especially loved it because it was all shaded. Love that!

We went to the park several times last week and to the library. Anna got a free pool from someone and she gave it to us. We spent most of the day Thursday unsuccessfully setting it up. I didn't have a pump to blow up the outer ring and I wasn't sure how to hook up the filters anyway. Finally around 4:30 my friend Jen came over and blew up the ring and helped me hook up the filters. We were finally in business. We spent the next three hours filling up the pool. The kids played with it while it was filling up. I was looking for leaks but I couldn't find any. Finally by bedtime it was filled up and it was huge. It was awesome. I wish I would have gotten a picture. When I woke up and checked on the pool in the morning half of the water was gone. Bummer. My kids played in it anyway and by the end of the day tons more of the water had leaked out. By Saturday I just emptied the pool to clean it up and get rid of it. Scott wants to try to find the leaks but I'm not sure if that will actually every happen and it also seems pretty impossible. Plus I think we wasted like 600 gallons of water filling it up and I don't want to fill it up again to have it all leak out. My kids are really little to have a non gated pool anyway so it's probably for the best.

Friday night the kids and I watched The Wizard of Oz together. We read the book and they really enjoyed that so I got the movie from the library. They quickly learned that books and movies are not the same. As soon as the menu came up Gabby said, "her shoes aren't silver." It was fun though. After the movie I took Corbin to the closest community pool to our house to practice some more swimming techniques. It was pretty cold and Corbin was shivering and he couldn't handle it. I was able to get him to focus for a hot second and practice a little bit. We also played on the inflatable obstacle course a few times.

After walking into sacrament meeting about 5 minutes late, per usual I noticed there were a lot of priesthood brethren on the stand. I also saw that to my right there were several people I didn't recognize on the front row. I thought we must be having ward conference or something. After a few minutes I finally looked at the stand and was very surprised to see Elder Oaks on the stand. Well you don't see that everyday! He came up for leadership training this weekend and ended up coming to church today in our ward. He stayed for all three hours and bopped in to people's classes, "to make the teachers nervous" he said. Luckily he didn't come to my primary Sunday School lesson (much to my girls chagrin) and he didn't come to Senior Primary Sharing time where I was subbing as the music leader. It was pretty exciting though.

Scott was super busy with work last week and was just happy to have made it through the week. His work is going pretty well but it's sales so you need to be ready to deal with the roller coaster ride.

Quotes:
Scott: "Ryan, you have food in your armpits. Why did you do that?" Gabby: "He probably did it so he could save it for later."

Gabby: "Mom when do we get a cookie? We don't have all day."

Diaper head!

I don't know what that is. Ha.

Summertime=ice cream time

Gabby was dressed like that all day waiting for the pool to be put up. Gabby quote: "I am not going into the pool without proper protection because I do not want to drown."

Corbin tried to blow it up himself because they wanted to set the pool up so bad.

This is what the pool liked like in the morning. The night before it was twice as high.

I escape for the couch in the night (because I'm crazy) and often times a kid will sneak in by morning.

We took down both ladders but Ryan has mastered getting  up via the slide. It's okay now though. A few months makes a world of difference and he's much safer up there now than he was before. (And yes my baby is sporting the diaper look often).