A Swimming Summer

I have thought a lot about how my mother always said it would have been great to have a pool when they lived in Nevada. I think about it because we have used ours so much this summer. This is the first non-Sunday that we didn't swim in it this summer. It has been wonderful at keeping us cool in this freaky heat. My other reason for posting this is because I love the swimming suit I'm wearing in the photos below. I got it from Walmart.com for about $30. It's modest, comfortable and flattering (if that's even possible in a swimming suit.) I liked it so much that I was going to do a whole post about my favorite things about Walmart and have this be the top thing.  (Don't worry, I'm not going there today.)

Below is Will's new swimming suit.  We got it for him because it came with a swim shirt to protect those little shoulders.  He refuses to wear the shirt.  And notice how he has to fold the top over to keep them up.  Yesterday he wore them folded over twice, and they still fell off a little bit in the water.  However, he refuses to wear his other swimming suit anymore because it has flowers on it and he doesn't want bees chasing him.  Whatever.

And this is Faith's Walmart swimming suit.  Isn't she adorable?  Another good reason to have a pool in our backyard: I don't have to take her to the public pool where guys might gawk.

Ivy's hand prints on the wall.  She was "painting."  I remember painting the driveway with water when I was little and being so disappointed at how fast my paintings evaporated.