Playing at the Lake

This past weekend we packed up everything we could and took off for the lakehouse with our good friends, the Monsons. The girls were beyond excited to have them join us for a weekend of playing in the water and on the boat for the first time, Kevin and I were pretty excited too, nothing like good friends and playing!

We pretty much spent the weekend on the "beach" (thanks to Kevins dad and brothers for covering all the rocks with sand so the kids could play down there), and on the boat. The kids all just loved it out there, and loved watching each other try out the innertube.

So, just so ya know there are WAY too many photos ahead, you have now been warned!

This is the "casita" as Alan calls it, when looking at it from the lake. It's a little two bedroom, one story house with some AMAZING views. The house you see behind it, is the "casito" also according to Alan (aka my father-in-law). They're renovating the inside of the two story house right now, so between the two we'll have five bedrooms to get everyone into when we all head up there. look at that awesome beach too, the kids just LOVED to play down there.

Well, what else do you do at the lake? We headed out on the boat, and the look on her face says it all, talk about a good time. Izzy and Lexie did alright on the boat, they just didn't quite understand why they couldn't walk all over and play with the controls.

Okay, that may have been more Lexie than Izzy, but considering how young they are, they did really well.


Halli LOVED tubing, and could stay on that thing forever! As soon as she was done, it was straight into the water. Yeah, she started a new fashion trend, tubing with goggles, gotta love it!

This next picture shows why she was able to stay on for soooo long....she just kinda hunkered down in there and held on tight. It's nice to be little for things like that!

Kevin took Peyton out on the innertube too. She didn't go quite as fast as Halli, but loved it all the same!

As long as dad was hanging on tight.

We even got little miss Lexie out there. They went nice and slow with her, and I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't at all worried about her going in the water. I know she had a life jacket on, but there's something about seeing your baby out on that big lake. She did great though!

Then it was Kevin's turn. He eventually had to let go, cause he was losing his shorts. The Monson's thanked him for that one.

Peyton and Braden on the boat, looking adorable, I just loved this picture, and I just love these kids!

Here's Isabelle with her life jacket on. She didn't really smile at me all weekend, but she is dang cute anyway!

What else do you do on vacation, especially when Allie and I are in charge of grocery shopping, of course there were sweets to be eaten, and boy did those kids eat them.

And make a mess....

And eat some more..

When we didn't take the boat out, we put the inner-tube out off the boat dock and let the kids float on it and swim in the water.

Somehow after all that, they still had the energy to jump on the swings and play. Have I said how tired I was monday morning when we had to get up and get ready for school?

Maybe by the end of the summer miss Peyton will know how to pump herself on the swing, that would be amazing!

Even when the kids were just playing on the sand, we made them wear their lifejackets. The water was just too tempting, and so was the boat dock. They kept playing on this thing, running up and down it, between their dads and the sand.

I really don't know what these two were doing in the sand, but they kept laying in it, then jumping in the lake. Whatever it was, they were having fun doing it!

Isabelle really loved the sand, the loved eating it too! By the second day I think she had mostly figured out that it wasn't all that good.

Another view of the man-made beach.

See what I mean....yummy sand!

Lexie just kept throwing it in the water, she was COVERED in sand by the end of the day.

We had such a fun trip, and had it not been for the snake...yes, I said snake....that we saw swimming in the water right were we had been playing, I would say it was the perfect weekend. But for some reason I think that snake thinks the dock is it's home, and that is a little annoying, considering just how terrified I am of water mocassins (has anyone watched the movie 'Lonesome Dove'?) Yeah, saw that as a teenager after reading the book, and I have been terrified of them ever since, even when I was in California, and they don't live there!

Okay, enough about that, hopefully someone will get rid of it before we head up there again, yeah, I'll just tell myself that!:)

But really, what better weekend could you ask for? We can't wait to do it again!