Summer Dreams...

Winter is

L.O.N.G.

in Minnesota...

and cold...

and blah.

So, to boost our spirits

we headed to the pool one Saturday afternoon!

The local hotel in town,

charges $3 for the afternoon of swimming...

and it's perfect because

there is rarely anyone else there...

so we have the whole pool area to ourselves!

The pool is warm...

but for some reason the kids

prefer to just play in the

hot tub!

James is quite the Daddy's boy...

so swimming with Daddy was a blast for him!

Just lately Elsie has gotten over her

"don't my picture" phase...

and now James is entering that phase!

We always bring with some

tupperware bowls

and cups

for scooping water for pretend play...

the kids happily do this for a long time!

And Jon and I get to relax in the hot tub...

perfect, in my opinion!

James loves to dump cups of water over

his own head...

god forbid I dump any water on his head

while attempting to wash hair though!

After we were there for a little while,

Angelina woke up.

So we put her

cute little pink bikini on her

and she enjoyed her first swim!

Elsie was super happy because she

can finally touch the bottom!

And she hasn't forgotten how to swim...

I have a feeling that by

the end of summer,

she will be swimming with no

arm floaties even!

Angelina was a little less than impressed!

The kids and I went swimming

last Monday too,

and Angelina enjoyed herself a little more...

she was even splashing!

I cannot wait till

winter is over and we can sink our toes

in the sand at the beach!

While we were busy swimming we liked to

pretend it was summer...

but reality hit us when we

had to go out in the 15' weather

to get to the car.

But it was a fun afternoon while it lasted!