Tuesday morning we all sun screened up and headed out to the water! We rented a boat! And by "we", I mean my very generous father-in-law for all of us. THANKS!
I'm bummed we didn't get a picture of the full boat - it was beautiful! So comfortable and luxurious! Man, It was awesome. We are originally only planned on being out on the water for a couple hours, but we had so much fun we stayed all day! 7 hours. It was a blast. Maggie helped me make sandwiches and pack lunches for everyone the night before, so we were set!
We did a bunch of inner-tubing, some jet skiing, just driving around, some hiking, it was amazing!! AND all 3 grand-babies were well behaved for the whole day! It was a miracle.
The pictures are sorta in order, sorta not. Pulling from a couple different cameras in a couple different folders, but close enough to tell the story.
Baby James was pretty chill this whole trip. He just kinda laid around and enjoyed the view :)
And eating, of course, gotta refuel.
I was so proud of this little girl. She was such a helper on the boat - the little captain.
She even drove!
Memes was just happy-go-lucky! She was a little bit apprehensive about the whole situation at first, but she had a great time.
Twinners!
I love Kristen's face! Can you just hear her saying "COLD!" HAHA!
Evette was so brave and had such a great time!
Not sure who that is, but nice action shot!
Some swimming
Watching the others tubing.
This is one of my new all time favorite pictures of her.
Eating snacks with grandma!
Evette had a great time with Auntie Caitlan!
Caitlan did, too, can't you tell by that face? HA! She was ready to go on her own to catch some air.
Evette LOVED her job as flag girl. She would intently watch the other innertubers and as soon as they fell into the water that flag would shoot up until we went to pick them up.
Evette went again with Papa - this time, she fell off the innertube. That was a little bit scary for her. Papa dropped off and swam next to her until we looped around to pick them up. She was a little bit more scared after that, but she still went back on!
Evette's also job that she appointed to herself was to pull everyone in. EVERYONE, with no help. She was so strong! This was HER job and she could do it all by herself. Too cute.
Cute!
There goes Maggie!
There goes Caitlan!
We also had some jet skis:
look at my handsome husband!
Kristen got up for a bit, too!
And Randy....
And I tried and tried and tried but couldn't quite get up! This was my first time water skiing, and it is difficult! Next time, I will NOT hike for 11 miles the day before our wear out all my muscles doing inner tubing just beforehand.
For our next adventure, we anchored the boat in a cove and swam over to a little island.
Even Memes came! The water was freezing, and she wasn't too thrilled at first, but we all survived!
We hiked to the top of the island and there was an old "castle" there, or just a one room stone house...but a castle sounds cooler.
And they were all falling out the window.
Although we did not get a good picture of the island, or of the castle, we did get this killer one of the view. Not bad, eh?
After that, we slowly made our way back to the boat rental place. On the way, we of course had to do some more innertubing. And Natalie was the CHAMPION! This girl did not fall off! Not once! Not with Sean going as fast as he could and making incredible waves and bumps and her catching some SERIOUS air. She held on. She won - it was incredible!
The babies were all a little tired by the end of the day
Evette and Sean rode the inner-tube back to the boat rental place.
The rest of the day we showered, sat around, and ate ridiculous amounts of Thai take out and ice cream.
What a day! So much fun.
