Sun and water

Well, while the rest of the United States is suffering from severe heat, it seems like summer weather is completely avoiding us.  So much so that all it takes is an afternoon of sun and 60 degree weather for Tyler and Hailey to put on swim suits and break out the sprinkler or have a water fight.  Meanwhile I'm standing behind the camera in my sweatshirt.  Hailey has always loved water.  Give her a puddle and she is a happy girl. Our backyard is so saturated with water from all our rain that we had a nice swamp going with about 5 minutes of sprinkler.  We had a happy girl though.

Tyler sees the mud and wants nothing to do with it.  However, bring out the aqua-zooka and he's all in.  I don't know how they can stand to get wet with the freezing cold water.  

 After a while Hailey decided to catch the water.  First with a rope circle and then with a container.

 Behind the scenes Dave took a break from deck stripping to reach up as high as possible and cut back all the trees that our trying to take over our deck and reach the roof.  It looks so much better now.  It's a little frightening how big the trees right next to our house have become.  If ever there is too strong of a wind........