Wednesday Night Boating

Tonight, we decided to take our boat out for a spin.  But Kade couldn't get (something or other) fixed on it....yeah I have no idea what was wrong.  :D   Did you know we have a boat?  It is a beautiful seventy-something yellow color...don't know how old it is but it's safe to say it isn't worth a whole lot.  We scored it last year, for practically nothing, and Kade got it running right as Mud Lake started getting too dirty for comfort.  We never got to take it out last year, and he has been itching to, but it just hasn't happened.

He arranged for his buddy to take his boat out at the same time, in case our boat got stranded.  But because we didn't get ours where Kade wanted, we decided to just all go together on one boat.

It wasn't long before Kade's buddies boat started smoking, and we were lucky to make it back without a fire, sinking, or paddling to the dock.  On the bright side, we all smelled like exhaust by the time we were done.  Seriously, I think we have the worst luck ever!  It will make a good story and the kids had fun, because they weren't stressing about making it back to the truck.

I decided that through all our bad luck, to just keep smiling.  Because there is no point in all of us being stressed/worried.  I had a comforting feeling the entire time, I knew that we would be okay, I knew the boat would make it.  The men were stressed, but the women were easily chatting away, trying to keep the kids from jumping in the water ;)

Enjoy these grainy/blurryish pictures from my cheap camera.

Boating in June 2013 Picture Overload

Anne Marie and Paul invited us to go boating.  Our little family had  a lot of fun.  Here is a bunch of pictures.  I have a ton o Paul because he was a jumping machine and none of Jake because I didn't get my camera out until after he wakeboarded.

On the drive down, in our shades.

The sun was bright

Annie and Addy, say that 10 times fast :)

matching life vests 

He loved the boat and the wind 

YAY, I got up :)

These kids love their dad

Trecia, I missed your jump.

Annie, looking hot in her shades

Addyson, didn't love the boat as much.

follow the leader

Paul and Drake cheesing

Annie wakeboarding

Kade got up!

chilling in the warm water

He did awesome

Trecia teaching Addy to dip her cracker in some cheese.  The kids had so much fun dipping and eating cheese.  

Paul jumping

Paul feeling the water

Paul jumping again

Paul jumping

Paul sinking

She finally got use to being on the boat

Another jump from by Paul

Drake had a blast

my very serious daughter

Wearing Jake's Moreland grain hat

Jake and Paul slowly got Drake in the water by lowering him in while he was splashing his feet.

The ride back in, the wind in his face

Due to the windy ride back and sunscreen his hair was sticking up

We unexpectedly stayed the night at my parents.  Later that night, Drake rolled off the bed and got a really bad bloody nose.  When we turned on the light we were worried he had split his head open because there was so much blood on his face. But this kid is a bleeder.