Lake Holiday

We made it back from Chicago, and we miss it already!!!

We spent the week at my Grandpa's lake house at
LAKE HOLIDAY.

We spent most of our time at the Lake House.
We went wakeboarding, skiing, and tubing
(thanks to Mike and Jeff).
Saxon loved tubing!
He did not love wakeboarding though.
We tried to get up with Jeff on the wakeboard, and me holding Saxon in front.
We almost got up the first time, but on the second try we submarined, and Saxon was done.
Every time we asked him if he wanted to try again, he would say:
"No, maybe later."
That was his way out of it. Smart boy :)

On the 4th of July, it rained all day.
That didn't stop Saxon from wanting to be outside.
He sat at this little picnic table on the deck, in the rain, just to be outside.
The picture of Bridger shows what a disaster he was every time on the beach.

Despite the rain, the boys all went fishing down at the dam.
Luckily my cousin Bruce had his little girls Barbie fishing pole in the car and he let Saxon borrow it. My dad helped him try to catch a fish.
After trying out fishing for a while, he decided instead to set all of the minnows from the bait bucket free. He would run up the hill, grab a minnow, and run down to the water and set it free. I'm not sure how many minnows survived being squeezed in his little hands on the way to the water, but it was a valiant effort.

Right before we got on the boat to see the fireworks,
Uncle Scott helped Saxon catch his first fish. Saxon kept with the
"Kiss your first fish"
rule and smooched his little yellow bass.
Then he made Nate kiss his fish also.
Those pictures are on my dad's camera...

Luckily, the rain let up just in time, and we got to see the most amazing fireworks display ever! They set off the fireworks right across the lake from us. It is so close that the sound vibrates through your whole body, and the sparks sizzle in the water around us. A few times, Mike and Jeff had to jump up to catch the sparks before they hit the boat. Saxon, of course, fell asleep just before the big show. Kasen and Nathan just had to lay on the back of the boat and look up.

Bridger had a blast trying to keep up with the big boys.

He kept getting frustrated that we wouldn't let him do everything that the big boys did.

Kasen had fun building sand castles which Bridger would immediately crawl all over.

Kasen took Saxon on his first trip tubing.
Saxon though it was so exciting that he fell asleep.

On the left is Kasen catching some air on the wakeboard,
and on the right is me, Bridger, Kasen, and Saxon all on the tube.

The boys LOVED the boat.
Bridger was so wiggly because he wanted to see everything at once.
Saxon kept sitting in the driver's seat and telling Mike to "move!"

I took a million pictures, but these are some of them.
I'll post more later... :)