fathers day weekend at the lake

nathan provides for us all year long and like most everyone else knows, the economy has made it even harder for us to enjoy the down time well. a friend of mine has a family lake house just an hour south of jacksonville and was looking to rent it out for long weekends this summer. she set quite an affordable rate and i could not resist setting this up as a surprise for nathan and wayne for fathers day. he gives so much for us and he deserved some fun time. Crystal lake was beautiful....just the right size, not too busy with weekenders and so very comfortable. most everything was there, all we had to bring was food, bathing suits and fun (and some fat tire beer for nathan). it was a most enjoyable family time...lots of sun, one really cool rain shower, tubing, fishing, jumping off the blob(the tube turned over), making smores, and low key laughs.

Thank you, nathan, for all that you do for us all year long. you are an amazing father and wonderful man to all of us! xox

miss.o checking out the rain storm coming across the lake

jackson and olivia trying to catch some minnows

my two men swimming

sweet lady O

family time

jackson's most favorite thing...watch the army men get dropped out of a helicopter over the lake...happened all day

nathan tubing

we finally got jackson to hold a sparkler...he loves to look at them and never wanted to hold fire

teeny keeny mama

jackson raring to go out fishing

kiki and littlemama watching daddy tube

jackson with daddy on his first tube ride!

wayne daddy and jman fishing...gotta love the tighty whities on j ( he going to hate me when he 's sixteen-total bribery)