Winter Swimming

Well it definately is winter! We are at a roasting 19 degrees today, but over the past few weeks we've seen highs in the single digits and even some days below zero when factoring wind chill. It's been a pretty frigid winter. So I love to say that we've been swimming quite a bit despite the weather!

In December, Chuck & Becky invited the kids and I to Gurnee Mills for Christmas shopping and winter swimming! We had a great time and got some good deals!

This is the girls jumping in the hot tub at the hotel.

Then for Shailyn's Birthday she wanted to go to the indoor waterpark in Indy, Carribean Cove. This is the kids chillin on the back of a crab!

And here's all three of them again standing in front of the big pirate ship. They had such a blast and enjoyed spending time with Trish and Jimmy, me and Matt, Chuck and Becky, and even Mechelle Jones!!!! We got to eat at Texas Roadhouse, too! Thanks again Trish and Jimmy for that!!!

And the BIRTHDAY GIRL!!!! Love this pic!!!

Then we had the opportunity to hit Turkey Run this last weekend with Chuck & Becky!!! We visited the nature center to see the birds and a cool star show in the planetarium! And ofcourse we visited the pool! Brenna's progressing so well with her swimming! She swam all the way across the pool four times, without ANY assistance!!!

Shailyn loved floating around on the little Styro tubes and shooting the water out of them! Keenan didn't join the crowd this time. He was supposed to be going to a rollerskating party with his....wait for it....girlfriend (yes, he's only in third grade), but apparently she was grounded and neither of them were able to go.

So we are now looking for our next swimming outing! Hopefully it's not too far off!

Happy Winter!!!