Over the weekend of August 20th, we headed up to the houseboat again for another weekend of the usual. This time we brought along some of our fave's...our dear friends the Hochstettler's who bailed on California livin' for that abundant Oregon sunshine (LOL...sorry, I'm teasing...Oregon is gorgeous) and our dear friends the McGregor's...who, lucky for us, remain local. =)
It was an ALMOST kid-free weekend...well...with the exception of our little nug who had already spent a great deal of time with the grandparents in the days prior to this weekend excursion. And boy did we have a ball. Some of the highlights included...EVERY homemade treat Allison made for us, both of the McGregor's
rocking it on both the wake board and wake surf sessions, Josh and his "free-diving with HUGE rocks" shenanigans, Elaine and her amazing ability to plug her nose before she ever came close to hitting the water, and of course Bella...just because she's always a highlight. =)
Here are some pics of our wonderful weekend with friends. (And I'd like to note...Allison McGregor was our weekend photographer. You can thank her for these wonderful shots!)
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| Josh getting some big air... |
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| Mike goin' big too! |
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| Holy teeth Bella. LOL! |
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| Josh: "This one's called Spin till you die." |
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| My first dive off the top of the houseboat. I was scared it was going to hurt. Rick and Josh assured me I'd be fine. They were only sorta right. I was fine...but it did hurt. I probably won't do it again. |
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| Mike's first time wake-surfing...he was AWESOME! |
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| SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY |
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| We had AMAZING sunsets. |
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| The McGregor's.... |
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| Go Elaine! Make sure to plug that nose of yours on the way down now! =) |
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| YEA Allison!! |
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| Almost.........almost..... |
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| Done! |
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| Happy baby |
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| Josh and his rocks. He would paddle-boat all the way over to the shore and find various huge rocks...paddle them back over to our place and proceed to "free-dive" with the rocks. The bigger the rocks, the faster the ride to the bottom of the lake. |
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| The various rocks....and one random pine cone. (Note: The pine cone was not used in any of the free-dives.) |
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| We eventually decided it might be a good idea to tie a rope to Josh's ankle. You know...just in case he got a little too deep, his ear-drums exploded and he needed rescuing. Thankfully, this never happened. |
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| Bella LOVES her swing! |
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| And loves swinging as high as possible. |
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| The group! |
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| The food was DELISH! |
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| And have I mentioned we have a WALKER?! More on THAT to come in a different blog-entry. =) |
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| Our slumber-party set up! |
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| This looks awesome...alas a few milliseconds later, Rick crashed hard. No broken bones or torn ligaments, but he was able to score some cool crutches, and ace bandage and a prescription to Vicodin. |
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| My gosh she's cute. |
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| One afternoon, we all heard Bella playing inside after waking up from her nap. Usually when she's in her bed just talking and playing, I leave her be and let her enjoy whatever she's doing in there. WELL...this time, she was enjoying herself alright.....and my makeup bag. She had pulled my bag off the counter, opened it up and taken all the items out. Smarty-pants. |
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| A very happy smarty-pants.... |
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| Elaine and I |
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| The Hochstettler's |
Fun, fun, fun weekend! It was a highlight of our summer! We LOVED the time with you guys AND getting to know the Hochstettlers! A perfect weekend ...we want a repeat next year!!
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