SNOW!

We work up to about 6-8" of snow this morning. It was fun for the kids (after I dug through boxes to find winter clothes). Owen always has to make a snow man. He and Hannah could stay out all day, Brayden gets to cold.

Barlow Family Reunion

This sure was a fun trip. Here are a few photo highlights.

You might be a redneck if. . .

You have coils of black plastic tubing on your roof to heat your pool. I know, it is a little unsophisticated but it really works. We ran the water that came out of the pump through three lines 300 ft. each of black poly pipe on the roof. It heats the water up greatly between the inlet and the outlet. We have the water up to 79 Degrees from 60 that it was a couple days ago before the heater. It is cool because it doesn't cost any extra to heat the pool (after the initial cost of parts) since we run the pump to filter the water anyway.

We also got a new cover that is much better at keeping the heat in. It is also about a million times easier to get and keep on. The old one would blow off every time the wind blew at all. Getting lots of dirt in the pool.

We have had a lot of fun so far this year. We are looking forward to a fun swimming summer. You are all welcome to swim anytime.

Spring is Here

We decided to get the pool out and ready for the summer. The kids had fun in their "boats" and Hannah liked floating in the water. I had to pull her out shivering and she kept saying "I'm not cold I want to go back in."

We built a fence around the pool so we could keep the kids and dogs out of the area. I was more worried about Hannah this year because she is more resourceful about getting into things then last year. The boys actually listen and don't go in unless we tell them they can.
We bought instructions to make a pool heater and a new more efficient cover. We will post later letting you all know how it goes. Hopefully we can get it nice and warm for a reasonable price.

Crazy Kids

The boys met their reading goal for their read-a-thon at school so they got to go to school with their hair dyed. Of course they had to have fohawks to go along. The gold hair paint almost didn't show up in their hair but they were pleased. Hannah had to have hers done also. I put their kanitial (as Owie says) on the back of their heads.