I've kind of been on vacation mode for the past 3 weeks, and haven't gotten a chance to catch up on my Summer blogging! We spent one week with my parents at the cabin on Ashley Lake in July, and it was a ton of fun!! As the kids get older, it is just more and more fun to watch them learning to do more things on the lake! Dakota and Mason really took to water-skiing this year, we were really impressed! Dakota has always been brave enough to try it, in fact, she first did it when she was only 4! So she was more than willing and wanting to ski each day, and she did awesome! She started out with skis and rope attached, and once she mastered that, we moved her to the other skis where the rope was not attached, and now she's mastered that too! She says waterskiing is her favorite thing to do, and she looks darn cute doing it too! Mason on the other hand always talks big, and thinks he can do better than Dakota, but as soon as he got his feet into the skis and into the water, he would freak out and decide he didn't want to try. We knew he would like it if he would just give it a shot, so we pretty much forced him to try (using bribery and punishments!) Sounds kind of mean, but just as we predicted, he ended up being able to do it and started loving it too! By the end of our trips, he mastered the skis with unattached rope as well, and started "cutting" back and forth within the wake quite well actually! I have no idea why Dakota is so brave and our boys are scared of everything, but at least she can be the example for them!! Griffin enjoyed the EZ ski, and of course all of the kids loved tubing!
Scarlett was a bit of a challenge this year, since she still just wants you to walk her all over the place, and is miserable if you try to sit her down on her own!! But luckily Grandma was a wonderful help, and we definitely took advantage of her 2 daily naps to get out on the boat! She did enjoy the water though, and always just wanted to walk right on in!! He he, notice the picture of her cute little bum cheeks on Lee's foot in the water?! He was too lazy to get a swim diaper, so he just let her play in the water bare!! Gotta love it!
Lee and I both skiied hard this Summer, usually 3 times a day, or as many times as our sore muscles could handle! The lake was absolutely gorgeous and warm this year, it was amazing! We spent many hours in the boat and on the lake, hopefully we didn't wear out my parents too much, but we sure loved it! It was also fun to just relax a bit, hot tub, waterslide at the Wallace's, play Mexican horseshoes, some Rook (even though no one seems to like Lee's "aggressive" Rook style!), some quadding, a little shopping in town, and surprisingly, one of Lee and the kids' favorite activities this year was chopping and hauling firewood!! There were some fallen trees by the creek that needed taking care of, so Lee chopped them all up (he is, for the record, a very amazing wood chopper! I think he should enter the Lumberjack Tournament or something!), and the kids did hundreds of laps back and forth carrying as much wood to the pile as their little arms could carry. Mason, especially, loves to work hard and try to impress! It was a great activity for them.
We randomly decided to get a family picture taken on Sunday, just since we didn't have a very recent one with Scarlett, and it actually turned out pretty good, I think! Thanks to my Dad for even making Scarlett look happy!! And some cute ones of the kids on their own too. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I have 4 kids and they are all growing up so fast!
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