"You are not here to live a mediocre to average life; you are here to live an amazing life, a miraculous life. If it weren't for your challenges, there would be no miracles. You must do that which seems impossible, for it is only in the impossible that miracles are had." - author unknown, but very respected

Monday, July 5, 2010

Swimming at Heidi's

On Saturday, June 26th, after going to the zoo in the morning with the three littles, and picking up the three bigs from their sleepovers, we invited ourselves went to Heidi's condo to swim. It was SO FUN!!!  Heidi's always so nice to help with the kids.  It was nice this year that the older ones at least knew how to swim a little.  Heidi took everyone to the bathroom at least once though.... HUGE help.  Nate had a lot of fun throwing the boys in and catching them when they jumped in.  Charity and Kelly mostly swam around taking turns using Kelly's goggles, and standing on Mom's back and going for dolphin rides.  Brad loved showing off his skills and being able to touch more this year.  Luke was quiet and I think he got really cold there near the end, but he had a lot of fun jumping in!  He was really shy about his swimming skills.  I'm not sure why he kept saying he can't swim, he's normally a little fish at swim lessons.  Noah was petrified in the pool unless he was sitting on the stairs.  He had the death grip on you if you tried to take him away from the steps, but seemed just hunky-dory while he was on them.  He's funny.  Erika liked the water at first, but got tired and hungry and nursed a lot of the time.  I had fun showing the girls all the fun stuff I used to do in the pool as a kid.  Hand stand contests, letting them stand on my back, dolphin rides (as I used to call them).  It was a lot of fun.  We all got sunburnt except for Noah and Erika who for some reason were the only ones that got any sunblock on them.  Bad parenting.  We all went to Wingers for Dinner afterward.  What a blast we all had!!!  Can't wait for the next time we invite ourselves Heidi invites us back :)

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