Some final summer fun....

Here is fearless Joe jumping into the pool. He just jumps, goes under and swims under water for a little bit. Amazing!! When we went to the Shelbyville Pool for our last pool trip of the summer he asked Mitch if he would bring his "Scuva tank". We had a lot of fun at the pool. Someone made a comment to Mitch that he won the best dad of the day award for having so much fun with his kids.

I wanted to do something fun and new the Monday before Sammy had to start school. I decided to take the boys to Fort Benjamen Harrison State Park. It was really nice. They had an area with a really nice new playground. The boys are standing on "fake rocks" which are part of the playground. There was also a big man-made hill with slide going down it. You had to climb up the hill to go down the slide. It was under construction and it was roped off, but we of course had to try it once. We then went on a 1 mile trail that went through a wildflower path, then through the woods, and around a prairie hill, then back. We played for several hours in the creek that had a nice bottom of sand and rocks. We built dams and "water ways" making the water flow different ways. It was really fun. I can't believe the park is so close and I have never taken the boys. It was a beautiful day and I will treasure our time we had.