The Horn Family: I LOVE swimming.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

I LOVE swimming.

Tiffney went with us to Julie's house to swim.

Funny story: I was pushing the stroller and walking with Tiffney, who was carrying Brigham. It was raining. We were trying to hurry to get under the covered area next to the pool. The 4 kids were running ahead of us. The plan is ALWAYS: take off our shoes and clothes, put on sunscreen, put on floaties and goggles and then jump in. Well, Josey decided to SKIP all of the plan and JUMPED right into the deep end. Remember I am pushing the stroller that is filled with our stuff, it is raining, Tiffney is 8 1/2 months pregnant and the others are oblivious. LUCKILY Julie was at the other end and was able to quickly rescue crazy girl. Jo was calm the whole time. We got her out, stuck her on a chair and she sat there while I filled floaties and put them on Lucy and strapped Ben's life jacket on him. The older 3 went and jumped in. Oh and it's still sorta raining. Well we were going to get wet anyways, so we didn't mind the rain. She and I had a bit of a serious conversation about not jumping in the pool until we had floaties on. The rest of our time at the pool was filled with lots of splashing, lots of drinking and choking on pool water, several trips to the bathroom, giggling and jumping off the diving board. Well the kids were starting to wear down, so I slowly started getting kids out and changed. Brigham LOVED the pool. Like he was totally enjoying himself. We were getting ready to leave and Tiffney said it was almost 5pm. What?? We'd been at the pool for over 3 hours. Okay if you go back to our "plan" and then went over what we did instead. Well we missed the sunscreen part of the plan. Luckily it was raining and super dark and cloudy for the first half of the time. I'm the one that got the worst of it and I'm really not that bad. The kids all had on swim shirts that they have to wear if we are at a pool or beach.