Swimming....

There is something about that first smell of chlorine during summer. Not having your own pool makes you appreciate that smell so much. It hits you when you go swimming for the first time. - All of the kids have been invited over to friends houses already this summer to go swimming, but today all of us went to the little public pool that is about 1/4 mile from our house. It's up a hill and tucked away behind a line of huge trees, so I never paid it much attention. Today Megan and I drove by on our way home from dropping off books at the library and noticed nobody was there. A storm was supposed to hit later in the evening, which is the only thing I can imagine must have scared most people away. But we had this pool to ourselves today. We were only outnumbered by lifeguards. Which thankfully makes for some pretty awesome pool photos without a bunch of unknown people in the background!

Matthew was not mad or emotional, but for some reason I love this picture of him. It must be the colors with the bright orange and yellow that he is wearing and the pretty blue and green in the background. He does look pretty serious though....

But not in this one. Here's my normal happy Matthew.

Mike and Megan went off the diving board several times. Trevor took a little prodding. He had gone off diving boards before in Phoenix, but he was cautious today. The lifeguards were even playing with him and telling him he wasn't allowed to back off of the board, that he had to just run right off the end if he wanted to get off. It didn't work. It took a few tries, but finally he went off.

Finally committing to jumping off... he's at a run.....

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