Each July we go on family vacation with my parents, my brothers, SIL and nephew. We've gone to Lake Ozark, MO for many years and rented the same house for the last 4 years. The only change this year was we stayed for 10 days instead of just 7-and it was fabulous!! We took off from home the morning of the 2nd, boat in tow!
We stopped at Cracker Barrel for a yummy breakfast, it's always our first favorite part of vacation!
After Colson asked us roughly 500 times if we were there yet, he finally fell asleep about 1 hour before we got there!
We arrived!!
We always put the boat in at the state park and then Alan takes it over to the rental house. I was left to park the trailer all by myself this year-ahh! I took a picture and texted it to Alan to make sure he thought it was okay :)
Once we finally got the boats to the house and the luggage unloaded, the babies were beat!
The view from our screened in porch....I'm relaxing just looking at it.
We had a quiet first day and the kids spent some time swimming in our cove. Shane, Lindsey and my dad came that day too! The 4th was our first day to really get out on the lake! A friend posted her daughter's hairstyle that morning, so Livi and I recreated it-it turned out so cute!!
Then it was time to get out on the water!!!
We anchored in one of our favorite coves and did what we do best-NOTHING! Lots of relaxing and floating, kids swimming....perfect vacation! That evening we did sparklers on the driveway with the kids and then the boys created our own fireworks show off our dock, they did a fantastic job!
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| Aunt Anne, Alyvia & Aunt Lindsey |
The whole next week was full of family, fun, friends and RELAXATION!!! I'm going to let our pictures tell the story though, so enjoy!
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| Nana & Papa bought the kids a Lily Pad-so fun! |
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| Ice cream at Culvers! |
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| Beautiful boatin' baby |
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| Cheeeese! |
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| @Backwater Jacks |
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| Who gave this kid chocolate on a hot day?! |
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| Livi fell asleep on Uncle Shane |
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| Topsiders! Drinking her "cheap sunglasses" |
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| Livi and her new friend Brady tubing |
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| El Capitan! Captain Ron's |
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| Miniature golfing! |
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| Watch out! |
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| Arrrrgh Matey! |
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| We started trying other hair styles too! |
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| Hula hooping at the Paradise |
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| Alyvia, Aunt Anne & Finn tubing |
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| Our Family <3 |
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| Livi, Colson and Nana |
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| Miss K likes to "help" tie up |
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| Our dream house in "Rustic House Cove" |
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| My girls |
We headed home on Saturday. It was a great week and a half, we all just wish we could go back before next year!
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| Baby on her way home! |
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Somebody was happy to see her kids!
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