Labor Day at the Lake!

 We had a GREAT Labor Day weekend at Table Rock Lake.  This lake is about 3 hours (maybe a little more) south east of Overland Park.  Our friends, Dave and Jenica, have a family place down there and so we packed up the 5 kids (3 of theirs and 2 of ours) and headed down for one last weekend in the sun!  We have been having HOT weather up here!  There were 5 weeks from about middle of July to middle of August where we did not get out of the 80's.  It was fabulous!  The last few weeks have been hot, which made for good lake weather at least! 

 Addyson and her friend Ellie met in Kindergarten last year and they happen to live right behind us.  Super convenient for lots of play dates! 

Addyson and Ellie

Ben, Izzy, Addyson and Ellie.  Of course, Ben is always the only boy!

Ben and Izzy are a year apart but they are good buds!  Izzy is one year older.

The Hot Dog provided lots and lots of fun this weekend! 

Ben hanging on, girls falling off!

Cruising on the paddle board.  This looks much easier than it is!

We did lots of swimming off the dock.  The water was pretty clear, which is always a plus for me!  I'm not a big fan of dark lake water!  :) 

The girls made lots of friendship bracelets.  Ryan even jumped in on the fun and made one for Addy.  Such a sweet daddy!

"George" the turtle was a little baby turtle who hung out with us by the dock all weekend.  We fed him Cheetos and the kids thought that was great fun!

Ben and George

Lettuce George? 

All 5 kiddos!  Millie is 21 months so she wasn't always in all the kids pics.  Kind of a tough age for dock life!

Family pic!  It was a little cloudy/rainy on Sunday....it cleared up enough though for lots of swim time!

Ben, Jenica and Izzy on the tube

My little lake girl!  She loves all things water!

Addy skiing....she did this on the first time like she had been doing it for years!  Why does she look 12 here?

Ben got on the ski but didn't stand up.  He was a little more hesitant than his big sister about all the lake activities. 

 Oh, and what  is a lake weekend without a game of Rook!  Of course the ladies won!!!  It was a super fun weekend and now its time to officially start Fall!  Ben starts preschool tomorrow and I have 2 lunches to pack and then off to bed!  Have a great week!