Their Faces

The many faces and hairstyles of Sophie Kate from our lake trip, you've already seen some but here are a few more...

Enjoying the sunset one evening with my girl...

My beautiful girl and those big brown eyes...

 

These are the faces I want to remember, the faces of our children in a moment, in every moment while they still wake up every morning in our home...while they still want their mama and daddy around.

A Birthday Party and Some Watermelon

We celebrated Jacob's 8th birthday while we were at the lake.  My aunt and uncle brought this cookie cake from a bakery up in Decatur, it was delicious.

I wish Jacob would show some enthusiasm for his birthday presents...

Yes, we'll have some watermelon served up with the biggest knife possible...

This makes me laugh...little Grey in that big ole boat...careful Grey that you don't dump yourself over in that boat.

We couldn't keep this boy out of the kayak...

and we couldn't keep this one out of the tube whether it was attached to the boat or not...

sooo much fun!!!

Still at the Lake

Now for some of my favorite pictures from our trip although I know this was definitely not the boys favorite activity but they were really good about it.

Grey wanted Sophie Kate to sit by him, so we let him be in charge of her...he was happy.

Cooper...

Jacob...

Grey...

Sophie Kate...

All the cousins...

I love this one, he can always make her smile...

Our group...

And lastly my favorite...

Thanks for checking in on us.

Tubing at the Lake

This one's going to be all about tubing...hope y'all can handle it.









Remember this...this was our little guy last year.



Here he is tubing all by himself this year...



Giving the thumbs up sign...faster, faster!



Once he got going though this was all we could see of him...



Showoff...





I wanted to do a fancy video thing with music and everything but seeing as how I don't have time to even be doing this, I knew I wouldn't have time to do something like that. So here they are, 3 short little clips of the boys tubing...it was the best I could with the time given.

We convinced Cooper and Jacob to get on their stomachs on the tube instead of sitting inside of it, thinking that we might could throw them off the tube easier, but neither Daddy nor PawPaw could get them off of it.

Cooper tubing from Amye McManic on Vimeo.

It doesn't take much to get Jacob popping up in the air...

Jacob tubing from Amye McManic on Vimeo.

Grey made it up to full speed, no fancy stuff just full speed ahead, he'll be ready to be thrown off the tube next year, ha ha!

Grey tubing from Amye McManic on Vimeo.

They had a ball!

Our Lake Trip

This was the view from where I sat a lot this week...



We spent a week at a lake house with my parents and my sister and her family. Lots of fun...





food...



and family...



There was swimming...



tubing...



and kayaking, oh my...



As for our girl, well, she did a lot of hangin' out.

Sophie Kate hangin' out on the boat dock, so dang cute...



SK hangin' out on the boat...





SK after hangin' out on the boat all day...



Cooper getting some direction from Dad on driving the boat...







On a boat ride with PawPaw and MiMi...



This was one of my favorite spots on the boat too...



Another one of my favorite spots on the boat...



Sweet girls...



All that and I haven't even come close to sharing everything we did last week. Alas, real life has taken over and we have come home to a broken washing machine and no A/C...welcome home, huh? Oh how I wish we were still at the lake, but I guess I will have to relieve it through blog posts.

Thanks for checking in on us, more to come later.