Swimming in the summer

As most of you know we have a little water boy, he loves anything to do with water. Today we happened to stop at a garage sale and found the coolest little swimming pool. It's in a oval shape and it has a little palm tree and a slide. Part of it also has a little sprinkler that sprays up. I can't wait to fill it up and see Caden play in it. We have been so lucky this year with finding things at garage sales, it's been great. Here is what the pool looks like:

I would have loved to have this growing up! It's like a mini waterpark!

Plum Jam

So early this summer we found out that we had a plum tree in our back yard and they are finally ripe and ready to pick. For the past week I've been going out with a big bowl and picking plums. At first it seemed that we didn't have that many, but the more I picked it I realized that wow, our little tree is really loaded. Good thing we like plums! : ) Yesterday I made some cinnamon plum jam, 11 jars to be exact. I was starting to worry that it didn't turn out, because it wasn't setting, but today they look alright. The jam is looking like jam, more solid, rather than liquidy. I still have so many plums left that I think I'll make some plum applesauce next. Our garden is continuing to grow. I haven't been able to pick anything yet, but it won't be long!