We were so excited this year to invite a few family friends to enjoy houseboating with us for a few nights for the 4th. We invited our good friends the Hills and the Donatis. Our kids got along great, and some of the adults made new friends they hadn't met before. It was so much fun. We ate way too much food, almost everyone got sun-burned, but we had a great time! After a few traumatic events on the intertube with the kids, everyone was brave enough to give it another shot and we were eventually successful at showing the kids what fun the water can be.
Here is Bree just lounging in the morning with her, oh so nutritious breakfast, muffins and danishes!
Cole and Tyden are the best of friends and often like to cause a little bit of trouble with thier roudiness! (Don't worry Mom and Dad Leishman, those guns didn't have water in them. They just wanted to pose this way for the picture!)
Here they are being sweet.
Cole was almost ready to go down the slide this time after a lot of coaxing from his more adventurous friends, but once he sat down and saw how far down it was he decided it was too much. He began to cry, I'm not sure if out of fright or embarrassment because he couldn't do it, but he was quickly comforted and moved on to the next task, getting in the water!
Such cute kids! (Cole, Bree, and Gracie)
Rylee was brave enough to go down the slide, as long as daddy went with her. She did great, but decided it wasn't for her after all. Maybe later in the season we can get her to try to go down by herself! Or maybe next year.
This years new toy is the paddle boat. I think my kids were more excited about this than anything else!
Miss Gracie, snacking away (which what we all did most of the day).
Bree's "funny face." So glad to catch it on camera! She loves to make people laugh, and once she gets a laugh, she doesn't stop!
I got glow-in-dark tattoos for all the kids, and this is the one I sported in honor of my new baby niece, Auburn Liberty, born on the 4th of July. How perfect! But really, we would expect nothing less from my sister-in-law Taryn. She's usually pretty good at getting just what she wants! (excuse my gross looking leg. way to up close!)
All the kids on top of the houseboat getting ready for the fire-works. I got them all glow-sticks that they are showing the camera.
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Man, you're lucky to have that lake and lake toys so close by. That looks like so much fun.
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