Look at these sweet little angels! The sun and swimming sure does the trick for them to take a nap. They were out like a light.

This is a little blury, but she is giving the just a minute mom! Wait.....I will, just wait etc.

Grayson can get herself in and out of the boat now. It is so nice to have independent children. She loves to just swim around at the back of the boat. She won't jump off by herself yet but she will let you hold her and jump it. It is so funny she ducks her head into her life jacket and then she is ready to go. She will even count with you.

We had a big pontoon boat next to us, so we decided to try out the slide one night. It was so much fun. Grayson even went down it. The boys were going frontwards and backwards.

Brady and Hudson are so brave! They are jumping off the top of the boat. Brady still does somewhat of a belly flop....can you say ooch!

Theres that sexy man of mine. Jarad actually did the laundry while we were there!! Maybe we should get stranded more often. I think that is a record for him to actually do all of the laundry in one day!

The kids loved Lake Patoka, the water was so warm it was purrrrfect. We had the dock pretty much to ourselves. The kids loved jumping from the dock to Big Bertha and just soaking up the sun.

Michelle and I were going down the slide on a tube, but by the time you got to the end it went straight off. Really good time.

We had a great time with friends this summer too. We all had so much fun hang'in in the pool and going down the slide. Michelle Dunahee was a bigger kid than anyone.

Summer Fun

Wow I can't believe that summer is already gone. The weather here has cooled off very nicely and quickly. Last year we were still able to boat in October....not looking likely this year. The kids have had a great time playing in the back yard. We got a big slip-n-slide, that kept them busy most days we also had a above ground pool for them so they were water babies the whole summer. We spent 2 weeks on our boat in a place called Lake Patoka, it was great, and as usual we had some Lewis Luck to go along with it all. We were 20 miles away from the lake and the clutch on our truck went out. So we had to call 2 tow trucks one to take the truck to the nearest town 50 miles away and one to take us to the lake. Then we were stranded no cell service no vehicles to go anywhere at least they had a marina with the neccessities for us. Addison went to Washington for 2 weeks and then to Utah. When she got to Utah she decided to try roller blading not very smart! She fell and broke her elbow...the same one she broke 5 years ago. So I got to fly out at the last minute to be with her. They decided not to do surgery, so after they released her she really didn't care that I was there. That made me have a great little vacation by myself. I got to see my family and friends and had a great time.