Lake Weekend

This past weekend our small group got together for a lake weekend. The Bruce's, who are in our small group, own an amazing lake house and they invited us out for a fun relaxing couple of days. It was SO nice! It was like a little vacation. Brian, Maddie and I left our house Friday when Brian came home from work, then headed out to the lake. It is only a 1.5hr. drive, so it was a perfect distance away.

We stayed at the house all weekend and each couple pared up with another couple for meals. despite the FREEZING water, we went out on the boat, went tubing, skiing, walking, had snow-cones, played games and had a wonderful time not having to worry or think about laundry, food, running errands etc. Maddie also enjoyed the lake. She was slightly confused about going to a lake house, she said "when are we going to the floating house?"

I was kind of sad to leave, and get back to the real life, but glad I got to go.

Maddie and Brylee had on the same shorts. Cute girls!

Shane tried to avoid getting into the water to retrieve the ball. He had to get in eventually.

All the girls went for a walk Saturday morning.

Crystal, Valinda, Jamie & Bryllee, Gaynell, Mallory, Michelle and Lindsay. And me of course.

While we were gone, the boys shot potato rockets.

Maddie liked to throw rocks into the lake.
She also enjoyed several snow cones. Home made by Valinda. They were SO GOOD!

Maddie asked Lindsay why she still had her PJ's on.

Brian and Dr. Mike playing a game.

This was Maddie's favorite swing.

Maddie and I on the boat. Maddie was VERY excited to go on the boat, but when it first took off, she got very scared and started to cry and buried her head in my lap. Jamie and I tried to distract her by the scenery and eventually she wormed up to it. She still didn't like the wind in her face, but got to were she liked being on the boat. I asked her later if she liked it she said "yes", then when I asked her if she wanted to go again she said "no." She did go again on Sunday with no problems.

One of the 3 girls that went skiing on Saturday.

The sunset on Saturday evening.

Enjoying the outdoors.

Brian was on ball retrieval duty on Sunday.

Maddie also liked playing with Baby Jayde.


Brylee and Jamie on the boat Sunday. The kids did really well on the boat, despite the wind and choppy water. Marcie and Josiah joined us late Saturday evening.

Brian and Jordan on the tube Sunday. Excuse the blurry-ness of the next pictures. Its hard to photograph and be on a boat at the same time.

We barelly started and the tube flipped over. It was very funny. Keep in mind, the water was freezing.


Jamie and I got a turn on a tube. David was nice to us and went really slow. We didn't want to get wet or be thrown off. We pulled the "Tara is pregnant" card.

Our weekend in a nut-shell. We had a great time!