First weekend at the lake with our new boat!

Monday morning... boy I'm glad I don't have to work today (sorry honey- wish you didn't have to, too)! I am so sore from head to toe from skiing and tubing (and falling off the skis) I guess. Let's back up here....The weekend started by getting everything ready to pack up Friday night, we would leave early Sat. for the lake. However, when Jeff backed the boat in the garage, I heard a popping noise. Turned out the bearings needed to be changed on the trailer tires. He stayed up until 11:30 going to the store to find the right parts with Steve. Only to discover it wasn't the right fit. So he wakes up early Sat. to finish the project. Luckily, several hours later we were able to leave. The kids were about to go crazy filled with so much excitement and joy they could hardly stand it. The boat ran great. We spent the next hours on the lake driving to different coves where would stop and swim. Austin loved jumping off the boat. He was nervous at first and worked up the courage after awhile. We got a snack at the marina and continued back on the boat until about 7:00 when we realized we better head to camp and get the tent set up (we were just having so much fun). Yes, we were roughing it in the tent but we like it and so do the boys. Actually, the boys love it: roosting their own hot dogs, making smores, and looking for anything they can throw in the fire. They finally wore down around midnight and slept until 7:45 which I thought was pretty good for sleeping on the blow up mattress in the tent. The boys had fun wrestling with Jeff when the woke up. Preston kept jumping on him and piling all the pillow up, throwing them on Jeff and then jumping on top of them. It was so funny. He'd say, "I'm gonna get you daddy!" We packed up, stopped at the shower house, headed to town for breakfast at McD's, and were back on the lake by 11:00! The Fisher's came out later and we continued to ski, tube, float and swim all afternoon. We are lucky to have such good friends. Austin and Parker were so brave to jump off the cliffs. It makes me so nervous to watch them climb 3 feet, 5 feet, up to at least 10 feet ( I don't know if Austin jumped this high but parker did) up the rocks and then jump in the water. But they loved it! Preston even got a nap on the boat today for at least an hour or so, he was pretty exhausted from all of the fun. So all-in-all despite being a little sore and extremely tired- we will do it again and again because it is just great family fun for us. Austin also got to see his paw paw Tim who was on the lake with his brother Terry. We visited with Amos and John who were fishing on the lake, too.