a surprise

Today as I was making lunch and the kids were on the back porch, their dad kept walking by carrying the most interesting assortment of items. All he would tell them is that it was for a surprise. So they pondered upon what you get when you take black pipes, black plastic, and a fire hose?!

Finally, after Mr. Happy woke up from his nap a couple hours later, the surprise was ready...

a slip'n'slide!!

Seriously, only their dad would think to take a fire hose and pump water up from the river to spray onto the slip'n'slide! The kids LOVED it and LM Sunshine said, "This is the best day EVER!!!"

Ohmygoodness he is just SO STINKIN' CUTE!! :}

I love him.

They tried going down all kinds of different ways. Every way was the best. :) He is still so little though that after a while he got freezing cold so we ended up jumping in the pool for a while - that water was a lot warmer than the river water!

LM Giggles liked to go down with her hands in the air - like on a roller coaster! :)

Then they had to try it all together. They went super fast with all three on the raft!

We stayed in swimsuits all day today. Or, well, the kids did. There's just not much point in actually getting dressed since we tend to live in the water - in one form or another - all summer! :) More pics coming from this morning's activity.