The Dog Days Of Summer

My daughters birthday and mine are two days apart and my grandparents tend to spoil us...so this year when we got our birthday money we tried to decide how to spend it (my daughter usually buys another toy she doesn't really need and I tend to spend it on stuff I want but would never buy myself) but this year we decided to buy a pool that the whole family could use. So one Saturday my husband set out to Academy and bought a metal frame above ground pool...It's 15' around and 4' deep so it's not much but it certainly does the job. He then brought a machine home from work to level the ground and spent the next THREE days installing and filling the pool...well let me tell you...to two children that want to go swimming...being able to look out your window and see a pool that you can't get in make three days seem like a lifetime. On the last day my youngest actually sat in her window (after she put her bathing suit on and cried over and over "its no fair, its no fair." So after three very long days we all jumped in and if I could make a list of all the things I have accomplished since that pool has gone up...I wouldn't need paper or a pen because the list is INCREDIBLY short. Yesterday when my husband got back into his truck at the end of the day he sent me a text message of the temp display in the car and it said 131 degrees....now I know that it wasn't really 131 degrees outside but some days it sure does feel like it!! Here in Texas we spend the winters hoping for summer and we spend the summer...in...on...or around any water we can possibly find. The pool was definitely a good investment...not so much for productivity but it has done wonders in our quest to have fun and beat the heat!