The Kids

I was only able to get 4 out of 5 of our kids today at a little festival at the local school.

Monday at the Lake

Well its a lil late, but here’s my post about our day at Lost Lake.

This past Monday, the family, our good friend and myself loaded up in the car and took off for the lake. After the kids got out of school first of course…lol. We had plenty of goodies and food to last the rest of the day. Though we forgot the radio. So no music. 😦  Anyways we arrived there at just after 2:30 and found that there were only a few others around. Which is good, cause its not that big of a lake. So we found a picnik table, switched into our pool shoes (to protect out feet from the rocks) put on sun screen and off into the water we went. Let me tell you, the water was quite cold, but after getting used to it, it was not that bad. The air temp was 102, but the water felt good. We splased around, tried to teach the kids how to swim, though they were just happy to be out and playing, so teaching anything fell on deaf ears. After awhile the kids wanted to play by themselves, and there was a shallow area, like a cove, that was no deeper than 14″. But we hung around just in case. But our friend and myself swam across the lake a few times which we could really feel the burn as we had not worked those muscles in a long time.

Well after a while the kids started to get hungry, so out of the water we went, and up to the table. We all ate sandwiches with ham, turkey, tomato, lettus, cucumber and spicy mustard. Chips for all and pudding for the kids. So after we all finished, we just sat around and talked to give our food time to settle. As we sat there, I took out my sketch pad and charcoal sticks and wanted to draw something that I saw out there. Now keep in mind I suck at drawing…lol. And its been forever since I drew anything with charcoal. But I managed to get something on paper which kinda resembles the landscape…lol. But for being visually impaired, and lack of drawing experience, I thought, as did the wife, our friend and our oldest daughter, did damn good on what I had done.

Well before I finished my drawing, everyone had went back down to the lake. I followed just a very short time later. So, as I proceed to get back into the water, I noticed that it was colder than before. Took longer to adjust and get used to it, but we never fully adjusted to it. So it was back to playing with the kids for a bit, splashing around and whatnot. After a while, the kids went off into the cove area to play just as we decided it was time to swim to the other side of the lake. Well this time my wife joined in as she wanted to say she was able to do it. Lets just say it looked like 3 fish outta the water trying to swim across…lol. After we had managed to get across, we talked for a bit on the other side, keeping a eye on the kids, which they were excellt in listening to us, plus they had their big sissy to help watch over them. Well after a few, we headed back over to the kids to play with them some more. Though towards the end, our oldest son got grumpy and sat out until it was time to leave.

Well we stayed until the sun set behind the mountains and figured it was time to leave, so we could get back home, clean the kids up and get them ready for school. All in all, everyone had a great time, and we are planning to go to the lake at least once a week. As its great exercise and it gets the kids out to release their pent up energy. So stay tuned for our next adventure.

Till next time,

4th Of July!!

First off, hope everyone enjoyed their 4th of July.

Today was the best day that I’ve had in a very long time. A very good buddy of ours was here to share it with us. The kids got to play in the water and sprinkler for most of the day as us adults sat out with them and grilled hotdogs and polish sausages. Had a good lunch and we let the kids play some more.

As it got dark, we watched others set off their fireworks, though most people around here had illegal ones…lol. then the kids wanted us to set off our own. Ones we got from a firework stand…lol. So we lit them off and the kids a great time watching them and laughing and having a grand ole time. Afterwards, the kids wanted to run around so we let them race each other to run off excess energy.

Also tomorrow is the first day of school for our 4th and 2nd grader and for our youngest daughter, its her very first day of school in Kindergarten. Mommy and daddy gonna be sad…lol, but I’ll tell y’all about how it goes in tomorrows post.

A good time was had by all, we all enjoyed getting out and enjoying the fresh air, sun, watching the kids play, sharing stories and having a good laugh with a good friend.

Happy 4th y’all and we’ll do this again next year.

Till next time, have a good’n