"Pool" House!

A couple of weeks ago, we rented out the same beach house as last year from the two families at church who own it. This year, however, we split the rental with Grandaddy & Grandma Tee as well as Uncle Jeffery & Aunt Malissa, & Aunt Becca's family too. It was a full house! But fun times were had! We affectionately dubbed this the "pool house" since all we did was eat, sleep, & hang out at the pool in the back yard... we never even hit the beach! I realized, literally the LAST day we were there, that i hadn't taken a single picture. (very unlike me!) so i snapped a few right quick! This is most of them! I didn't even get a picture of everyone who was there! It seemed like we rotated turns in the pool so rarely were we all in there together....... but here are the boys with Emma & Leah....

Eating ice cream after the big swim......Jackson drying off... he did this a lot & i felt like i had to reapply sunscreen constantly (you know that label .... it reads "reapply after 2 hours in the sun, excessive water exposure, or towel drying...)
Getting ready to throw a torpedo in for someone to fetch.... i bet it was Jonathon was was going after them!
Here's Eli showing off his "Dora muscles".... he discovered that he liked the swimmies about halfway through the stay... he liked the extra freedom it gave him when we combined it with....
the fish float....... he would hang out in there all day if we'd let him...Jackson on the other hand.... he was swimming under water.....
above water......

jumping off the sides doing "cannon balls" after Kenneth & Uncle Jeff showed him how....

And he must have learned something else on this trip because once we were back home, we went to our regular weekly pool date a couple weeks later & he said, "Watch Mama!! I am going to do a "pencil!" He CRACKS me up sometimes, but he knew just how to do a pencil! And a cannon ball, and another cannon ball & another cannon ball. I am pretty tired of getting soaked at this point! Ha!