LOTO 2013

I am finally getting around to writing about our vacation this year!  Since we got back, I've been busily preparing for Alyvia's 6th birthday party (6?!).  She will be 6 years old this coming Sunday, crazy!  July is always a busy month with vacation and Livi's birthday.  We left for vacation on the 6th and for the first time, we all drove down to the lake seperately and not in a big caravan of cars/boats.  I worked 4 days the week we left for vacation and we packed mostly Friday night after I got home from work, yuck!  We got it done though and were ready to leave Saturday morning!

We stopped for breakfast at Cracker Barrel, yummy!

We made it to our rental house after about 7 hours.  The kids were really good traveling, we really couldn't have asked for much better!  We spent the whole week relaxing, boating, floating and eating way too much!  The kids slept great, Kendall napped every morning and they were all happy boaters!! 

Livi LOVES the diving board at the house!  She loves even more when Aunt Anne lets her swim without her life jacket :)

This guy quickly learned to love the water after we just dropped him in it (with his puddle jumper of course!)
"I simmin' by myself"  "I simmin' on my tummy!"

The kids did a little fishing off the dock, we didn't catch anything though :(

We visited Don & Jill at their new condo.  Scott (Josh's friend) made his delicious lasagna for dinner, yummy!



Colson swam with everyone, he did so good!

He also decided he was the captain of our boat.  He settled for driving with daddy, but would have preferred to drive by himself :)  Daddy had to start hiding the boat key!

This little beauty was the best baby boater!  She would just lay back and snooze while the boat was running.  When we stopped to anchor, she woke up and was ready to float in the water!

Floating with the girls :)

We did manage a few boat naps

We barely got Alyvia to ride in our boat at all!  We are already very un-cool to her :(  She did agree to ride one of Don's jet skis with Alan and we FINALLY guilted her into riding our boat once.  She spent the rest of her time in Nana and Papa's boat!

On the back of our boat....but not riding in it!  This girl is a FISH and she was barely out of the water at all :)

Alyvia never even sat by us at meals, so I don't have a picture of her and I



 @ JJ Twigs

@ Topsiders :)  Livi wanted to eat here where "the big kids get the drinks with the fish in them" AKA Fishbowls :) 

 @ Captain Ron's Aargh Matey!  Great fun here :)

  

@ Fired Up BBQ  Aunt Anne, Finn and Colson line dancing! 

Family picture night!

The last night we boated over to The Paradise for dinner and it was fantastic as always! 

Looking out the back of the boat

 We had a great family vacation.  Both Alan and I agreed it was probably the best to date!  We're going for 10 days next year and we are already excited!!