Memorial Day Weekend 2011

This year for Memorial Day weekend we went with Chrissy and Kalon to Hot Springs, Arkansas. Connie and David have a lake house their. To say it is perfect might be an understatement!! It is so beautiful and peaceful and the water is amazing! That does not even take into account the amazing hosting done by Connie and David. It was such a wonderful weekend. Jeremy and I had to return to work on Tuesday but we left Addi and Luke with Chrissy and Kalon so they could soak up a few more days of lake fun. They had a blast and I think they were all pretty sad to have to return home at the end of the week.

Addi loved jumping off the dock onto a green floaty or to the tube or just into the water. I think she did it no less then 1,000 times. What amazing exercise.

Lucas tried his hand at water skiing. He was not able to get up but did manage to wear himself out trying. He is close so I think on our next trip down he will get it all together. David and Connie have the awesome skies where they are connected to each other so it is so much easier to learn this way then when I had to learn to do 100 things at once. Keep the rope between your legs, stay behind the boat, keep your skies level and close together, but not too close together. I can't wait to see Luke get up!

Aunt Chrissy did manage to get up!!

We did a ton of tubing. So much tubing that it became difficult to climb up on the tube when you fell off. It was a blast! Addi was so cute on the tube with Emily and we all took turns riding with everyone else and it was so much fun.

It was so much fun apparently that I failed to take one single picture of it at all. That is so sad because we had such a great time but hopefully next time we are down I can stop laughing long enough to snap a few pictures.

Here is Captain David. David did such a good time driving us around the lake in the boat and pulling up skiers, tubers and wake boarders! Way to go Captain David!!

The end of every great weekend you have to have the annual photo so here is ours.

Addi Jo just fell in love from Friday night on with Emily. Emily is 14 and so kind to spend almost every waking minute of her weekend with Addi Jo. I am not sure what it is about the name Emily in general that Addi loves but she has even asked us several times in the last year if we can call her Emily. Everything is named Emily, every doll, her hamster (was) and her imaginary friends. So Emily had that going for her on sight. Then Emily still has her Barbie collection from her younger years still and let Addi hand pick one to carry around all weekend. Super bonus. Then there is the icing on the cake. Emily is super sweet and kind. Addi was in love. It is so cute that Addi still asks about Emily every week.