Momma let me tell you a secret...

and Michael whispered in my ear that we could go get our swimsuits and sit in the shallow end while the pool filled with water, lol...I thought about it a minute and said "why not?"...I was done adjusting the liner and it was set, just need to get it full of water now. There was about 7-8 inches of water in it at the time...

One very Happy little boy!

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It also gave me a chance to work some wrinkles in the floor of the liner out with my hands...and I got them all out! I checked it at 8pm tonight and we had 1 ft 7 inches of water in it, we need 2 ft before we can fold the liner over and tuck it in...Then we need to put the skimmers in, hook up the pvc pipe and get the filter and pump ready...I'm hoping by Sunday evening we'll be up and running with a full pool of water, yeah!!

Fill'in it UP!!

After we got home from the awards assembly we went down to start filling up the pool...It was a VERY LONG day and a VERY HOT day!! I used the tractor to get the liner in the pool and then I managed to get it stretched out, not sure how I did it but I did...Michael helped me with the clips and cardboard, he's such a good worker!

I let him use the step ladder to see inside the pool and the liner...He's smiling here as he had no clue how long this is going to take...when we finished for the day (and no the pool is no where near full of water) at 8pm he was no longer smiling, uh oh!

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I kept telling myself this is so worth it...especially when we are swimming in it next week!
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Joe Cool?
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A photo with the wide angle lens from the top of the tractor...
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One last shot of my oh so cool boy and then it was time to sit under the beach umbrella in the shade and stare at the sand, lol...We'll be back out early in the morning before it gets hot to start filling it with more water!

Another school year over with...

Here are the photos I took of Michael at school today on his last day of 2nd grade...

Receiving his A/B honor roll award...this semester he got all A's but had 2 B's from earlier in the year...I'm so proud of him! He worked hard for those grades!

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With his teacher and later he told me he was afraid of being on stage, so no smiles for the camera!
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One very HAPPY boy!!
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I asked him to please smile for the camera as he kept hiding his face! I got a two second smile!
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With his teacher...

WooHoo...

We have a 3rd Grader!! Michael had his awards assembly this morning and I am so proud of him! Photos to come...Since the Gulf of Mexico is showing some tropical activity I've decided to attempt to work on the pool by myself, sigh! I have the Happy Bottom and the coving in and I'm fix'in to put the liner in...yeehaw!!

The big reveal....

Since a few people have opened their mouths in the comments (lol, no names mentioned) and I have a really hard time not sharing things...Here's what we are working on! We aren't done but hopefully we can finish up this weekend...

Michael and Daddy working on the project Saturday morning. I took this photo with my cellphone and neither one of them had a clue that I was taking photos, lol.

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And here it is...well the outer wall anyways!!

Yes a pool...I grew up with one (and a lake or two) and for the past 12 years have really missed not having a pool. I love to swim, yep in another life I might have been a dolphin or a fish (who knows). But it upsets me that my son is not a good swimmer. Yes he can swim a bit and he's taken lessons but I want him to have the same experience I had growing up and learn to love swimming as much as I do...so I decided to get a pool!! Now hopefully we can get it up and running soon! Also this will save us gas as we won't have to run to the beach or waterpark every week and we can go every day and for me the big thing...while we are working on the house I have somewhere to cool off when I get over-heated, which happens frequently!
So now you know what we've been up too :o)

I'm here...

We've been working on our project non-stop since Friday and I haven't had a chance to take photos...we are whipped, sore, sunburned and tired!! We were so hoping to finish up tomorrow but we've had a few problems so it's set us back, sigh!

I did take one photo this morning with my mobile phone but have yet to get it uploaded to my computer...

I have been reading every ones blogs but still unable to leave comments on most of them, sigh! I've deleted my cookies hoping that was the problem but no go...Thank you for sharing your stories and photos it's a nice break from a very long day!!

Hope everyone in the U.S.A. has a good memorial day!