Waiting for our pool!

We are getting ready to go down to Orange Beach this Saturday and upon our return in one week, our backyard pool should be almost finished. It will be 20' by 40', with the shallow end being at 3 ft and the deep end at 8 feet. The electrical work was done today. We are now looking at the leveling of the area around the pool and then they should be ready to come in and do the concrete work and upon that setting, we should have the liner installed. They tell us we can plan on swimming in the pool over the July 4th weekend. Yipee!

The digging began

Strawberry Picking 2009!

As mentioned previously, with all the rain in May, we also found it hard to find a good time to pick the ripe strawberries. Since the last week of May brought us much sunshine, we planned to rise early and go to Southern Belle Farm and pick us some strawberries on Monday, June 1. We had a beautiful morning, school was out. What better way to start the summer than to go strawberry picking. We brought home 4 gallons of strawberries! Now, that does not count what the children ate while they were furiously picking them!

Waiting for their containers.....all were wearing their garden boots!

May activities....baseball....birthday and flower girl

May was a very busy month. Most of it was filled with lots and lots of rain, until the last few days, then we finally saw some sunshine. In spite of the weather, we had Rembe's 3rd birthday, Aidan had some baseball games and then on May 30th Rembe was a flower girl in her Uncle Keith's wedding on May 29, up in Germantown, Ohio.
We finally got to plant the garden after days and days of rain shortly after we had it tilled. It was too wet to actually plant, but that is all done and it is coming up very nicely.

Aidan is playing for the Florida Gators this year!




Had lots of water fun for the birthday party!






Flower girl Rembe.....so pretty!