Memorial Day Weekend

On Friday night and Saturday we spent the day helping Chutka move out of her house. Here is the truck in a variety of packing stages! Chutka and her family have officially moved in with us until they find a house in Phoenix. Kristen, Kate and Wil were big helpers during the move. Saturday evening we went to Uncle David's to swim in his pool.

On Sunday and Monday we went to our friend's lake house. It was a small lake but a lot of fun!

Here is Wil doing sparklers, right before dark. We shot off lots of fireworks after dark and Kristen sang the national anthem for all the guests there.

Here is a view from the lake house back porch. The closest dock is theirs.

Here are the daddies hanging out on the back porch. We had fresh fried catfish for dinner!

Here are the boys taking a rest in the hammock. Yes, it only lasted long enough for me to take the pictures.

Here is where Kate and Wil and Adam spent most of the trip, jumping on the raft and playing in the lake.

The kids all took turns on the little one horse power jet ski (LOL, ok so it was really a raft with a very small battery powered motor that you could swim a LOT faster than, but still fun!)

All of the kids fished and fished. Lots of blue gill were caught and released.

Kate caught TWO super large (is that a word?) catfish, this is #2.

Here they are fishing from the bank and then the dock. All of them baited their own hooks.

Here is the first catfish Kate caught! It was definitely a keeper!There was lots of hanging out by the fire and s'mores eaten and general hanging out in the hammock. We enjoyed the visit!