One of my great girlfriends from college, Sara, invited us to her family's lakehouse. They have been asking us for years, but we haven't planned early enough to make our schedules work out.
Well, 2017 was the year!
We went to Lake of the Ozarks on Friday afternoon of Father's day weekend and stayed thru Sunday.
The kids immediately starting having so much fun. Sara and John have 2 kids, Mackenzie (9) and Chase (7). Mackenzie is a fantastic swimmer and athlete, and Chase has a love for fishing.
Everybody was getting fitted with their lifejackets
Colin immediately took to fishing. He has gone a couple times at our neighborhood lake since we've been back. He loves it!
Getting everything just right...
He caught one!
They had almost every toy imaginable down there.
We went out on their boat the first night and got some drinks at a nearby bar.
The kids had so much fun together!
The pool at the bar was pretty neat!
One of the only pics I got with Sara.
Such a great friend!
Mac really helped Maggie
Oh those boys!
John let everyone 'drive' the boat for a bit, even Eli
We had so much fun together!
Maggie's turn to drive
Such good drivers! :)
Eli had a blast out on the water
He even went paddle boating with Sara
Another one of Colin's many catches!
They had this really awesome lily pad float that the kids played on for hours!
We rode the wave runners too!
Maggie smiled the entire weekend, she was worn out!
Kids everywhere...
Cheese!
The kids even got to go tubing
We stuck Eli in a bucket with some plastic cups. He sat in there for hours.
The boys fishin'
The kids loved the wave runners (Brian went much faster than I did on there, I think my max speed was 20 mph) :)
John's sister's family came on Saturday afternoon, so we had lots of kids running around
The girls tubing!
Love this pic of Eli and Brian.
Eli carried around that water gun almost the entire weekend.
The boys turn tubing
Brian took the littles out there on the tube
Everyone loved watching them on the tube
The lily pad was a hit all weekend
We left on Sunday morning and headed off to a water park called 'big surf'.
Sara's family has season passes and it just so happened that Sunday was one free admission for every season pass holder. We played around at the water park until about 1 pm and made our way back to KC.
Sara's family has season passes and it just so happened that Sunday was one free admission for every season pass holder. We played around at the water park until about 1 pm and made our way back to KC.
We stopped by on our way home to see Granddad and wish him a Happy Father's Day.
Then let Brian open his presents when we got home.
He got a KC Royals grill cover, a KC royals garden flag, and a Mizzou T-shirt.
We are so blessed to have such a wonderful Father in our lives.
Brian takes good care of us all and sets a great example for the kids.
It was a fantastic Father's Day weekend!
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