Fourth of July (people edition)

Put together 8 families, 7 dogs, and one lake house and what do you get? Loads of fun! My sister Diane invited us and my two boys and families to her house on Smith Mountain lake in Virginia. All of her family was there too. (even Steve who flew in from Seattle). They broke last year’s record by having 24 people there at once. Luckily the house is huge with 4 bathrooms and three showers. we used up all the beds and brought air mattresses. We had a ball….swimming, boating, tubing, kayaking, jet skiing, playing games, and getting in the hot tub. It was such a fun weekend for us all to be together. Diane and Noah on the deck.
  Sean is ready to try out his new fishing pole.
There was lots of swimming and floating on rafts and boats. I was so happy that Sara and Sean came Sunday afternoon. We all are playing pictionary. (Did I mention drinking?? LOL)
Only one slight (HUGE!) catastrophe. There was a storm and the power went out. The chicken pot pie wasn’t completely done so we ended up finishing it on the grill. The power didn’t come back on until 10 o’clock. The five young people went out to the bar leaving us in the dark with the five little ones. (With no lights and no air conditioning and nothing for them to do). Hmmm…do grandparents get extra points for that? More games, this time 5 crowns. And we played marbles too. Sean learned how to jump from the dock.

Even Sara enjoyed the water! We loved it when the ice cream boat showed up!
This is living!