Thursday, July 19, 2012

more music camp (pool edition)

One of the highlights of music camp is swimming in Aunt Lori's backyard pool after a long day at classes!  The kids never tire of the pool and when we finally drag them out, they love the backyard shower in their swimming suits that Uncle Brad designed!  It's pretty awesome but I don't think I took any pics of it this year, dang! 

The kids had fun practicing their swimming skills they picked up at this summer's swimming lessons.  Kaleb isn't totally confident yet swimming on his own but he's definetly not afraid of the water at all.  He spent the week trying all kinds of fun stuff like flips off the side of the pool and hanging from the basketball hoop and dropping off in to the water.  He'll be swimming in no time.  The twins are not afraid of the water at all but can't swim just yet but they love the water and will try just about anything!  The 3 older girls are fish!  I never thought I'd say that about my kids because they all started out being afraid of the water but now it's the opposite, thanks to swimming lessons!  Jordyn was all over the pool this year and swimming with no problem, Morgan was practicing diving and swimming beautifully, and Regan loves the water and swims really confident now, so it was a worry free year at the pool!
 
Porter thought he was so funny pretending to jump in the pool time and time again.  He had Kamryn laughing so hard she probably wet in the pool :):)

The kids found this old pool that kept deflating so they turned it in to their "raft" and they pretended for hours with it. 
Porter and Kaleb jumping off the side of the pool! 
Kamryn jumping off the side (not to be outdone by her brothers)

Jordyn showing off her tricks for us! 
Regan lounging in the pool! 
Kaleb and Jack having a good time together, Jack rarely takes off his goggles and is as daring as the rest of them!   

Porter being a goofball with his goggles and Kate and Jordyn being silly with their long hair 


This was the kids favorite trick and I happened to get only Morgan doing it.  They would stack the tubes and then get a running start and jump right through the center.  It was so funny to watch and pretty much entertained the older kids for hours!

Kate, Jack, and Kaleb doing their trick of hanging from the basketball hoop and then dropping in to the water!  Kate is an awesome swimmer -she and her older brother Todd are on the swim team in Rupert and both do awesome!  Wouldn't it be awesome to have a pool in your backyard???

2 comments:

Greg and Wendy said...

You got some great pictures of all the fun! There certainly was much less stress and worry as confident as everyone was in the water this year! Yea for swim lessons!

Lindsay said...

These pictures are so much fun! What a blast!