At the Lake

We spent our Memorial Day at the lake. The kids had been wanting to go fishing ever since their trip got rained out over spring break. We packed a lunch and swim suits just in case it got too hot and we had to jump in and cool off. The lake was muddy since it rained Sunday evening.

We always wonder if we could slide off this waterfall rock into the lake. It looks to be moss covered so it probably wouldn't work very well, and the water looks so nasty in this picture. The waterfall is really pretty though.

Blake was the lucky one this trip, he caught all the fish. We had about one good hour of fishing after we ate our lunch. It started to get hot as it usually does on the lake. And usually at this point Maddie starts to whine about being hot and bored and I start to worry about her fair skin getting burned. But I had a genius idea...

and brought the umbrella.  It was a perfect fit for her area of the boat. She laid her long enoughe for the boys to fish a while longer until this monster rolled in.

After what proved to be too much time wasted debating whether or not we should leave, we had to get in a long line of others fleeing the soon to be storm. We waited to get to the boat ramp to load the boat and it began to pour, massively. Thanks to my genius idea with the umbrella, Blake and I took a little shelter under it while trying to keep the boat from being blown away by the wind. This storm came fast, we didn't get to stay as long as we hoped to, and we didn't get to swim but we still had fun. And that's all that matters anyway.

~Tara