Our busy day & pool problems...

C-Man & I snuck out of the house early this morning to go to the "great giveaway" the church was having.  What is that you ask?  Let me tell you... our stake (church) collects used items that are in excellent condition & then has a big giveaway for the community.  I took 3 boxes of clothes down yesterday to be sorted & approved (lol) so we went back today to see if there was anything we wanted.  I SCORED this morning!  I ended up with a TON of stuff, shoes, sweaters, a jacket for me, a SWEET Ralph Lauren down jacket for the Princess, jeans, t-shirts, dresses, & lots of other "stuff" too.  The best thing about it?  It was all FREE!  Yep, you read that right, F.R.E.E (that spells free...)lol  Anyway, they have classrooms set up with different categories, holiday stuff in 1, maternity & infant up to age 2 in another, etc.  So actually, you get to go "shop" in the different classrooms.  They even hand out big garbage bags so you don't have to walk around with big ol piles of stuff.  Anyway, it's super cool & always a BIG success.  Needless to say, I've been doing laundry all day today. LOL

Ok, after I got home, my sis called to let me know they were on their way to drop off my nephew for the week.  Well, SHE wasn't dropping him off, her DH was.  We did the "passing of the child" & then Mike took off.  It was SO hot at that point, that we all headed to the pool.  We had a BLAST!  Unfortunately, I forgot my camera, so didn't get any pics, the good thing is, Conner will be here for the whole week, so lots of opportunities will be coming up.  Anyway, Prince Charming decided to take off, so him, Princess & Bonez left to run an errand & would come back to pick us up.  (WAY too hot to walk home & SOMEbody didn't have shoes).  They took off & I decided to jump in the pool.  Well... as I was walking past the steps, I noticed...

something...

hoping & praying it wasn't what I thought it was, I went to the other end & just floated on my board thing.  (I did NOT get in the water)!  A little bit later, we all decided we had a pretty good idea of what "it" was... (none of the boys were in the big pool, so they were "safe").  Ok, at this point, I was so beyond disgusted, I got out & took a super long shower & told the boys that they were NOT to get in the big pool.  UGH, it was DISGUSTING!!!  I'm just hoping that by Monday, it's been taken care of!  Needless to say, we headed back home as soon as PC showed up.  

The funny thing is, they boys BEGGED me to take them back this afternoon, ummm, nope, not gonna happen, sorry.  I had to remind them WHY we couldn't go swimming  "Oh yeah, that's so GROSS"!!!

The kids have had so much fun hanging out with their cousin, we don't get to spend a lot of time with him, so this will be a fun week for them.  So far they've gone swimming, played basketball, played a million rounds of air soft, played video games, played in the band room, watched the Olympics, played on their bikes & rip stick, scooters etc, played a few card games & eaten.  Whew, I get tired just thinking about it all.  They should all sleep well tonight!