Just Keep Swimming

May-June 2016: Swimming Season!!

Now that the weather is warm, and the pools are open... we will be spending our days either on the lake or in the pool. My girls both LOVE to swim!! Katy Ellis will do about ANYTHING to get to go swimming!! As soon as that is what we decide to do, she runs into my room and grabs the beach bag! That girl is READY!!! I've discovered that I MUST sunblock her and put her ring on in the parking lot, because there is no slowing that train down once it gets through the pool gate!! She is my water bug!!!

First BIG pool day of the Season with GG!!

What is the pool without some princesses?

When we can't make it up to the pool or there is swim meet, we set up the Redneck Water Park in the backyard! Always a hit!!

Katy Ellis has become obsessed with goggles! She literally WILL NOT take them off!! She kills me!

First trip to the new splash pad at the zoo!! Super fun!!

Blakely: "Banksie is my cousin and my best friend!!"

Little Fly!! She knows no fear!!

Pool time with Daddy is ALWAYS a hit!!!

GG's new pool!!

First boat ride of the season!!!

This crazy blue floating mat is EVERYONE's favorite place to play!!

This thing ALWAYS wants a blankie on boat rides!!

First Mate Walker reporting for duty!!

Never to be left out, Katy Ellis gets in on the action too!

Golf cart riding with Auntie O and Uncle RyRy!!!

First Mable ride of the season!!!

Everyone's favorite new edition this season... the ladder on the end of the dock!!! Now they can climb and jump in OVER AND OVER AND OVER again!! They love this!!!

CC teaching Blakely how to cast a line!!

Sunsets on the lake require no filter!!

This little "baby's" favorite thing is to be ALLLLLL wrapped up in a blankie!!

Meet Quackers!! On the last day of school, we decided to have a Lake Swim Party!! As soon as we started swimming, this baby wood duck came and found us! He followed us around, and kept trying to get to the kids. He had been alone of the lake for 3 days, so we decided (after talking to Carolina Wildlife Rescue) that he was in need of some help!!

He swam straight up to kids as fast as he could. He had been very lonely all by himself.

The kids were mystified by this baby duck!!

As much as they wanted to help, they weren't always careful. In particular, Quackers imprinted on Walker... the LEAST careful of all the kids! He literally chased Walker up on to the rocks. Quacks LOVED Walker!!

Blakely named him Quackers, because he was duck and ducks quack... good logic.

The kids keeping guard of Quackers while we got read to take him to Animal Rescue!!

Such an amazing learning opportunity for the kids!

Quackers was rehabilitated at Carolina Wildlife, then sent to Bird Sanctuary in Charlotte to live out his life in peace. Good Luck Quackers!!! We will miss you!!

So far Summer is off to a GREAT start, and we are just getting started!!!! The biggest event of Summer is coming in July.... BABY LAWSON IS COMING!!