3 Hour Tour
This weekend we went to Lake Livingston with our church small group. One of the couple’s family owns a home right on the lake and they offered for us to use the home for the weekend. Score! We arrived at the lake house around lunch time on Saturday and stayed until Sunday afternoon.
The majority of our small group was able to come. We totaled 8 adults and 5 children all between the ages of 1 and 5. Good family fun! There was plenty of room for all of us to sleep, eat, play, and even fit on the boat! How refreshing to get away with several close families!
Saturday we ate lunch and then took off on the boat soon thereafter. It was Emma’s (and Robbie’s) naptime so they stayed back at the house while we went to play without them. We swam and floated around near a beach for what I think was probably a couple hours. As much fun as I have playing with Emma in the water, it’s nice to float around by myself every once in a while 
For dinner the ladies worked together to make spaghetti while the men took charge of the children. Here are the men trying to teach the kids to play duck, duck, goose! HA! While the 5 year old could hang, the others are all 3 and under…not so much!
After dinner, we took another opportunity to swim near a dock just around the corner from the house. This time Rob and Emma got to swim too but it was too deep for Emma to touch bottom and Rob wasn’t feeling too great due to some serious vertigo symptoms he’s been having ever since his allergy testing last week. Since we were in deep water, Emma had to keep her life jacket on which she wasn’t at all keen on since she never swims with one in pools. So Rob and Emma walked back up to the house while we finished our evening swim.
Then, after lots of showers and getting all the kids to bed, the adults stayed up and played SkipBo and chatted…but mostly we were all exhausted. And speaking of showers, it was all I could do to balance myself during my shower last night. After being on the water for so long, it seriously felt like the house was coming down because the entire shower seemed to be rocking! Especially when I had to bend over to wash Emma. I’m still a little woozy today which is strange since I don’t normally experience that after I’m off the water.
This morning we ate a nice big breakfast and then took off in the boat again right before noon. Rob had to stay back at the house again so he watched a movie while the rest of us hit another swimming hole.
Here’s Emma with her favorite small group friend, Allie, right before we headed out on the boat. They are BFFs and adorable to watch together. Allie is 5 and the oldest of 3 so she’s used to playing with the younger ones and is an awesome help with Emma.
Emma’s sporting some interesting but yet adorable hair today
Here are a few boat photos. Emma has only worn a life jacket a few times in her life and it’s usually torture putting it on her. However, this time she did pretty great and I think it was because all the other kids had them on too…without complaining.
The swimming area we stopped at today had a shallow beach area so I allowed Emma to play around without her life jacket for most of the time. Didn’t seem like much of a big deal since that’s what we do at swimming pools but it’s definitely a little more nerve racking not being able to see very deep in the brown water! Emma did great at staying where she could touch though and mostly she just wanted to practice her great swimming skills.
Check out Emma practicing her swimming skills! She can finally move herself along under water really well!
Before we left, one of our fellas joked about our outing being a “3 hour tour.” We had only planned to swim for a little while and the swimming area we went to was maybe a 15 minute boat ride or so. So when it was time to head back to the house, we all got in the boat, pushed off the bank, and the boat wouldn’t start. We were off in a deserted creek area so there weren’t many passersby and of course, none of us had brought along a cell phone! We were starting to drift near a bridge so our kind fella who had joked about it being a 3 hour tour, jumped in the water and was able to swim us back to shore…despite the fact that the water was way too deep for him to touch bottom in. What a champ!
We weren’t ever able to get the boat started and none of us knew anything about boat mechanics so we flagged down the only boat that ever came by and they agreed to tow us back home. That was a long slow ride back so yes, our little outing did actually turn out to be about a 3 hour tour!
Here are a few other videos from our 3 hour tour today…
Fun fun!
July 11, 2010
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Amadna Thacker - July 12, 2010
Sarah and Robbie looks like you all had a wonderful time at the lake with the kiddos, Emma is getting so big and she is so cute. It also looks like she is doing a great job at her swimming skills. Can’t wait to see yall again.
sarah - July 13, 2010
We’ll be coming the last few days of July so I’ll try to hook up with you while I’m there but we won’t be there long.
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