Labor Day Lake House

I'm one of those lucky people who have friends all over the place and I don't mean just acquaintances, I mean really good friends. The kind who even though you only get to see them once or twice a year they still know exactly what is going on in your life and are there for support and love. Well my long time friend Elizabeth (little sister in my sorority, bridesmaid in my wedding, blah, blah, blah) lives in Charlotte and is so very fortunate to have a fantastic weekend lake house about an hour outside of the city. We have been talking about spending a weekend at the lake house for literally years, but this is the first time we have actually gotten in the car and made the drive. After 7 hours, three potty/diaper stops and a DUI check point we finally made it! The fun part in waiting so long is that now we both have babies who get to see each other once or twice a year and will be thoroughly embarrassed when they get old enough to look back at pictures like these.




Believe it or not there is a year difference in these two, both August babies but mine is way little for a 2 year old and Elizabeth's is a good little eater. This photo was taken right before a spat over Kix cereal started. You will notice a recurring theme over the post that the only time that they didn't get along was when food was involved.

Jason is pure entertainment for the babies. Adelaide loves loves loves Jason, always has and this time when Jason walked into the house for the first time A dropped what she was doing and ran over to him. So he spent time walking around with two babies in his arms, maybe this is what twins would feel like.

Baby pool on the pontoon boat, spoiled kids!

Kyler was going to town on some goldfish, Elizabeth spent most of one of our boat rides keeping peace between the babies over goldfish.

Karen and Jason - the newly weds.

Good thing it was a big boat, because we had a bunch of people in and out over the weekend. Notice this is where Elizabeth was the goldfish monitor.

Jason jumping off of the dock.

Karen and Adelaide - new BFFs.

Grant jumping off of the dock, I think for the second time.

Swimming in the lake.


Adelaide and Kyler being sweet, holding hands and singing row row.

...and then Kyler was tired of singing and decided to pull A's hat down, too bad A was still in the hat. Pretty sure we all showed our stellar parenting skills when this happened, we were all laughing too hard to help the poor kid out.

This was taken right after trying to assemble all of the extras on the pool on the dock and soaking everyone in the process, yet another moment of laughing too hard to fix the problem in a timely manner.

Another beautiful night over Labor Day weekend. It was as though the weather man knew it was a holiday weekend and everyone needed a break from the heat. The temperatures dropped into the 60s at night and topped out at 80 during the day. It was perfect for swimming, boating, lounging and lots of eating!


We discovered that Jason could juggle. Oh and to clarify, there were two Jasons at the house and I'm pretty sure only one can juggle.


Elizabeth and Kyler driving the other boat to a friends house. You will see that we never got back on this boat, but that's a whole different funny story that led us to a third boat for the weekend.


Please don't ask what is up with my smile, because I have no idea.

There is a better picture of Elizabeth, Karen and I where you can actually see our faces, but I don't know if we had had too much wine or lack of sleep at that point so I'll save that one for evil purposes later.

I could watch this sunset every night of the week, but instead we headed back home to Florida to our own house where the golf course will have to do instead.
Thanks for a great weekend Elizabeth and Jason, we love you!