Lake Fun '17

After the game at Wrigley, we spent the night in Sherman.  Then, we headed to my parents lake house at the Ozarks.  My brother's family and my parents were already there.  The lake is my absolute FAVORITE place to go.  It is so relaxing and always so much fun.  Time goes by way too fast when we are there.  We wish that we could go more than once a year, but are very thankful to have the opportunity to go each summer. The 10 of us rarely get to spend time together, so we make the most of the time we get :)  The kids absolutely love playing together and getting to hang out while we are there. They go non-stop from the time they wake up until they go to bed at night.  However, we are all so exhausted that we are all usually in bed at 9!  Here are some pictures from our fun week!

This is the view we saw from my parents deck as soon as we got there...so pretty and peaceful

Each year we take a pic of the 4 kids looking at the lake.  Last year Keegan had to stand on his tip toes to see over the deck, but this year they are all tall enough

Cute pic of Adelin

Our sweet Keegan

Landon & Chloe

 Jeremy and I

Such a cute selfie the kids took

And a silly breakfast pic

 Jeremy's family bought a giant mat that allows people to sit or stand on it the water.  It's pretty big and offered hours of fun for the kids.  They played on it non-stop while they were in the water.

All 4 kids...Adelin, Landon, Chloe, Keegan

 All standing

Jumping off

Landon and Ade playing a game they created on the mat with a ball 

Silly kids :)

We took a boat ride one day and stopped at multiple places on the lake.  This place is called Niangua Falls and it has a really nice salt water pool that we enjoyed one afternoon.

Jeremy, Adelin, Cindy, Chloe, Me, Keegan, Mom, Landon and Dad

Dad, Jeremy and Cindy relaxing in the pool

Group selfie

We drove one day to another fun place called Coconuts.  There was a pool for the kids and a slide in the lake that they had a blast playing on!

Eating lunch at coconuts

 Mom and Jeremy watching the kids slide

Landon went down the slide head first

 Playing in the pool

 The 4 kiddos

We also had some fun doing water sports:

Landon, Daddy and Keegan

 No hands!

 Landon, Mommy and Keegan

 The kids

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 Matt kneeboarding

 Jeremy skiing

 Keegan on the sled

 Landon on the sled

 I was in the water with the kids, trying to help them ski for the first time.  Landon and Adelin both did great!  We waited to try until the last day.  Next year, we will try on the first day and practice all week.  They will be skiing all over the lake then :)

Landon getting ready

 Landon was up for a little bit

Adelin was also up

 Jeremy and Matt were the drivers and spotters for our skiers

Dad and I wore our "Bruce's Bait and Tackle" shirts one morning to help us catch some fish.  Jeremy made fun of our "team uniforms" but we caught a lot more fish than his boat :)

One of my all-time favorite pics of these 4 amazing kids

We love nightly boat cruises so we continued our tradition and did another one.

Our sweet boys

 Family pic

 Keegan was our captain for part of the cruise

Adelin and Chloe

 Keegan and Mommy

 The Bruce Family

 A selfie with Mom

 Great pic of Mom and Dad

 Fun in the front of the boat...Cindy, Adelin, Chloe, Landon, Keegan, Jeremy

 Matt and I

The day we left we went for one last boat ride to "Larry's on the Lake" for lunch.  The kids had a blast playing on the inflatables in the water while we waited for our food

Our traditional lake family pics before we leave

The Bruce Family

 The kids and grandkids

 The McQuality Family

 A couple group selfies

 Grandma and Papa with the grandkids

Thanks for another amazing week, Mom and Dad.  We are so blessed to spend this time together every year at your beautiful lake house.  I wouldn't trade this week for anything, and look forward to it all year long.  So many memories, gorgeous weather, fun times, and great company!  Let's do it again next summer!! :)