Lake Rats

We were invited to go with the Josh Huff family for a long weekend at the beach this past July. It was going to be our family vacation, and their's too. But when an unnamed family member allowed our condo to sell out from under us (I hold no grudge, promise!) we had to come up with an alternative to Sandestin. The only logical thing to do was to pack up the families and head to Lake Martin. Here we go...1 house, 1 lake, 8 children, 4 parents with 4 full days on our hands...

We filled our days with basically three things: 1. swim, 2. tube and 3. ski. We successfully taught Cameron, the triplets (Abby, Caroline and Logan) as well as Anna Grace to ski. They all learned in a day and once they learned that is all the children wanted to do (with the exception of a little swimming, tubing and sea-doo riding). We had a great time and I don't think anyone in the bunch wished we had gone to the beach.

tubing

(Caleb loves tubing but we failed to get his picture.

Holt...well...Holt gave it one try and we failed to get a picture of it too.)

Abby and Caroline

Anna Grace and Caroline

Dean and Logan

Hudson's first boat ride.

little faces

one happy crew

(During the above picture I was holding Hudson up front and

Caleb had plans of his own...)

skiing

Abby

Caroline

Logan

Anna Grace

extra shots

And when they were relaxing from water sports

they were plugged in.

one last photo before ending our vacation

Neal and I choose to believe that Anna Grace is trying to express

her feelings about the end of the vacation and not her disgust

at posing for pictures in 100 degree heat.

And finally Anna Grace's video of her learning to ski.

If you want to watch it, here is the video of her first long ski; she is a natural.