Labor Day with Los Coltos Locos

To celebrate Labor Day weekend, the Grants invited us to their lake house on Possum Kingdom Lake. We were so excited to get away with our friends and just enjoy a relaxing weekend together. We loved watching Jillian play with Joseph Austin, Aaron and Joyce's son, who is just a month younger than Jillian and Meredith loved all the great adventures the lake had to offer!

We started the first morning off with a wonderful breakfast and a slow morning staying in our jammies. Meredith soon found the kite that I packed for her and she convinced Daddy to go give it a try - poor Neal had to run like crazy to get the kite to go in the air since there wasn't much wind, and then of course, when Meredith took over the string, it fell pretty quickly, but she still had fun!

Daddy was successful and so far so good for Meredith until...

Is anyone surprised to see that her rain boots made the trip?

Jillian and Austin did lots of playing on the floor together - she was trying to teach him to roll over, I think he was almost there!

Later that morning, the guys headed to driving range and the girls and baby Austin hit the playground

Meredith, Pinky and the boots enjoyed the swing

Before dinner, we headed to the pool - Meredith loved playing in the water with Krista!

Meredith kept asking Krista to take her on "adventures" through the pool. Krista tried to gain her trust to get her out of the hippo (she was a swim teacher so was hoping to win her over!) but it didn't work, yet...

Such a fun group! We are so blessed that these two guys have been a part of Neal's life for so long and their wives have become such great friends to me and to us and love our girls so much too.

The next day, the guys headed to play golf, so we hit the beach!

Look at these adorable baby toes!

Meredith was so excited to get to play in the waves and to make sand castles.

Krista and Noah took Jillian out for a swim while I helped Meredith make sand castles.


The water babies enjoying a dip.

Building sand castles - big improvement from our last trip to the beach when she hated getting close to the sand!

The finished product. Sadly a wave came by and washed it away, which was a huge tragedy.

Before heading home, we got to take Meredith on the boat. This was what she had been waiting for the whole weekend.

Loving the fast ride with Daddy.

Look at the joy on her face! Meredith decided early on in the ride that she wanted to drive. She also LOVES Micah, so what a treat to get to ask him and for him to want to show her how!