Fun at the Lakehouse

This past weekend we spent some time at the lake house. On Saturday my family came up to enjoy the day with Tim & Cyndi and the kids.
We had a lovely day in the sun, a wonderful dinner (with the best Ranch Beans!), and ended it perfectly with a trip to a little local ice cream shop and a fire.
It was nice to enjoy a lazy summer day as a whole family.We took a lot of pictures, so I’ll let a lot of them speak for themselves.

My dad spent most of the time fishing off of the dock. Evelyn had a BLAST catching fish with him.

Daniel, my younger brother, spent a lot of time fishing and in the water too – but some how didn’t end up in the pictures?

Jobee spent most of the day getting passed around and loved on by every one.

(Olive and her Gramee)

We tried to get a picture of my grandparents with all my kids…. these first ones will be how 99% of them actually turned out. (reality)

This one is the only one that turned out with everyone looking at the camera. (leave it to four kids under five though)

(Below: Grandma Meekers and Papa)

We also tried to get a picture of all the kids with Nana. Once again, these first ones are how 99% of them turned out.

And this one is the cream of the crop. (You’d think they’d know the drill by now *wink*)

(Below: Nana and Popi)

(Below: The local ice cream place)

Waiting patiently for their ice cream and picking it out.

This is the size of the KIDDY cone. Scale might be hard to tell from this image, but it’s at least a pint of ice cream!

The kids got a ‘baby’ cone…

to my surprise they actually finished them!

(Jobee hung out in her car seat and didn’t make a peep like the little angel she is)

Olive even enjoyed sharing with Daddy!

Eventually all good things must come to an end. We enjoyed a fire for a while and the day was done.

Too bad the next day wasn’t so pleasant! On the way home our van’s transmission completely stopped while going 70mph on the highway. We were so lucky to be able to coast to a stop just a couple hundred feet from the end of a rest stop on-ramp. AAA towed the van for us while we waited on the side of the road in 90 something degree weather with four tired kids and a dog. It was an interesting way to end the weekend… But, hopefully we’ll be given a little mercy and it won’t be too expensive to repair! We shall see…