A Lake Sleepover

We invited some dear family friends to come up to the lake with us on Saturday and Sunday...what a blast! Our families are very well matched...everyone has a friend they can play with, including Dave and I. :) It's fabulous.

The kids were so busy catching turtles,

relaxing,

playing King of the Hill on the water trampoline,

boating,


posing,

being silly,
swimming,

cheesing for the camera,

sliding to the waiting arms of big brothers,

tubing,




conversing,



looking for snail shells,

and watching sweet little Moxie overcome her fear of swimming in the lake. She's getting to be such a big dog. (By the way, she's now lost 6 teeth!)

Here she is taking her first swim...

And here she is playing in the water with her daddy...

Here's the two almost preschoolers sharing a snack...

and here's the crew sharing a meal...

They swam all day and most of the evening...






...until they wore themselves out. Connor and Evan unwound by watching Toy Story (of course!) together.

They went to sleep soon after that picture was taken. The older kids played until they crashed at 11, sleeping together in the "dorm", so named because it has 6 beds in it. Now that's a sleepover!

The next day, it was back in the water until it was time to go. I have no idea how they kept up this pace, but they did and then some!