You can call us outdoorsy.  We camp, swim, and generally choose the outside over the inside when it is warm as a family.  On the weekends this spring our deck became where we did everything.  As it got too warn we pretty much live at the pool.  I prefer joining the pool to having one although I live on a steep hill and a pool would never happen.  Belonging to the pool gives us friends, activities, and the best 4th of July every year.  We plan for the 4th for weeks.  We get a menu together, gather whatever friends want to join us, and get to the pool super early to secure a spot.  The pool provides free hot dogs and birch beer and races of various sorts that are a complete throwback to another era.

I spent time today jumping off the diving board with the kids, competing in the water balloon toss. Our friends are arriving and I think my kids need a second coat of sunscreen already.  I get to listen to cheesy pop  music like, I’m Sexy and I Know It.   It’s a throwback to the 1950′s except I can blog from a picnic table.  Its nice.  I am so lucky.

I hope anyone who reads this has as wonderful a day as we are having and gets to at least gets to be in a tug of war and a potato sack race.