Today was the great day. For the past few days, I've been watching the rain poor out of Shane's rain gutters, but not at the spouts, they would fill up and then run over the side. So Shane and I got the ladder out and started looking at the gutters to see what the problem was. In at least 2 of his down spouts, he had a ball blocking the down spout. The rest were full of dirt. He even had a few 8 inch tree's growing in some of the spouts because the were so full of dirt. We got them all cleaned out, so that the water should come down all the spouts correctly now.
The sun was out all morning so we all went swimming in Shane's pool. (Even got Shane in there this time.) Sydney can actually swim now. In the past, she has been jumping into the swimming pool and kicking to the top of the water, then I would grab her and help her back to the side of the pool. However today she started jumping in, kicking to the top, then doggy paddling back to the side of the pool. At age 3, Sydney can swim. Who would have thought that Sydney would swim before her older brother?
Not only can she swim, but she can float on her back pretty well too.
Sydney has no fear. She saw Uncle Shane jump from his rock wall and she wanted to do the same.
The kids loved Shane's pool. Sydney relaxing on vacation.
Ryan relaxing and making the most of his last day at Uncle Shane's.
After our afternoon swim, we decided to go out to a movie. We saw Ratatouille. It was a good movie, but quite long. After the movie, as we drove home, the rain came again. I was amazed at how hard it was raining. I was glad to see Shane's rain gutters finally working as they should. We ate dinner at Shane's and then headed on another long drive (about 160 miles) to Gilmer, TX. We will be staying in Gilmer, TX for the next few days for the Bowers Family Reunion.
Brett, Ryan, Deni, Sydney and Shane right before we left Shane's.
