Summer has come to West Texas.

Oh yes it has! We're over 100 degrees every day by early afternoon, and we finally got our air conditioner turned on. (These swamp coolers they have here work pretty good, but they're a lot different than regular air conditioners! It took three days and several repair visits before the thing actually worked like it's supposed to.)

What's more, it's so hot outside that all anyone wants to do is get into the nearest body of water and stay there. Well, we may not have any bodies of water here, and Army pools don't open until Memorial Day (that's Army wide), but Thak did get home from work early yesterday (a first since being here!) and got out the kiddie pool. Erin put on her swimsuit, and I let Orren put his feet in the water. He liked it a lot, so we let him get in, too. He had a lot of fun as long as he had toys to play with. Both the monkeys enjoyed their first swim of the year (Orren's first ever!!)

Of course we took pics.