Stolen Memory

My sister has started doing memories on her blog. Since we spent most of our time together when we were little, her memories are mine in a lot of ways. I wanted this to be in my blog book when I print it out this year so I stole it. (It's alright to steal from a sister, right?)

Our Swimming Pool

I think we were the luckiest kids in our neighborhood, because not only were we one of the first kids in the neighborhood to get a trampoline, I also had a dad who liked to invent things. I just started to list some of the things he invented and decided that better be a whole other entry to do it justice. Needless to say, my favorite invention was our swimming pool. We had hours of fun in this homemade contraption. It was six sided, made out of 2x4's, and in the early years we used black plastic for the lining. It was great because it was so slippery, but it got holes in it pretty easily so later on we started using a big blue tarp. Every summer when the weather got warm enough, we would haul out the tarp and smooth out the sand underneath (by the way, in the spring and fall we had an awesome sand box) then we would staple the tarp to the edges, leaving one side unstapled, so that we could let the water out and clean it every so often. My dad also made a slide out of 2x4's, and covered it with Aluminum sheeting. The slide was burning hot in the summer but we quickly discovered a hose at the top solved that problem, and also made a great water slide! We would zip down the slide and try ski across the slippery plastic. The person who made it the farthest without falling was the winner. A lot of our make believe play was centered around that pool. We often would pretend we were mermaids or wild horses that loved the water. Often, we would have the whole neighborhood at once, and there would be a line to go down the slide. It might not have been the most glamorous looking pool but to us it was the best pool in the whole world. Our pool in the early years. I'm too sexy poses from left to right: Jenn, friendsDeNiece, our pesky neighbor Ethan, me, and my other pesky neighbor and brother to the first one Austin. You can see part of our awesome slide in the background.
Here we are a little older, having fun with some of my nieces and nephews. From left to right, Joy, I think the next one is April but I am not sure, my nephew nick, then Amber (a neighbor), me, a friend Krista, and Jenn.