A summer of water fun

With the constant heat this summer it proved to be a few months that had a lot of water involved! Here are a few of the activities that we enjoyed either by ourselves or with friends. These next pictures are taken at Rolling Hills reservoir where we spent a day with other families from church.    

Having a backyard pool leaves me always humming and hawing with whether its actually worth the work and cost of keeping it nice (we fill it with pond water so it is can be hard to keep the phosphate count down) and also the worry of having a pool with a two year old.  This year it did provide again hours of fun for us and friends who came to enjoy it with us, even though it is quite small.  Those days when it was 37 degrees outside even I (I would go a whole year summer without once wanting to go in if it was just me) jumped in along  side the boys and we cooled off and felt refreshed.  Sometimes at the end of the day Andy would join us which of course created more fun than anything else.  Funny how dads have that effect.
It was remarkable how brown all of us got from being out there and when I would go to town I was often stopped by people wanting to look at "such a tanned baby!" .  I wasn't sure if this was a compliment or not. ;)

Seth, Tristan and Rowan have a little hobby which is fishing.  They aren't very good at it (or maybe we pick the wrong spots to stand??) but sure have a ton of fun keeping the rods in good shape and also collecting new tackle whenever a few spending dollars land their way.  Often Andy took them to the pivot pump site while he was working by it and the boys would don their life jackets and fish by the canal.  What a good life these boys have!

We have friends with a boat and every summer they ask us to come along for some time together at Sherburne Lake. This year we got all three boys on the water skis.  The three pictures below feature Rowan.  We were all surprised by how well he did, being the youngest, and it was very much fun to watch him ski.  So much intensity and determination. It was a fun opportunity for them all.

Andrea and Andy helping him off the shore.

Andrea helping Rowan come back to shore. (He refused to fall)

One proud little man.

On labour day we spent the afternoon at the same above mentioned beach, this time we could do some wind surfing, and more sand digging. It never seems to get old. Always treasure hunting and shell finding.

...and that's Tristan!  There is hope for Andy to have a surfing buddy in the not too distant future!