July 4th at the Lake

Once again we celebrated the 4th at the lakehouse in Council Grove. Our good friends, The Kimberly's joined us. It was a great weekend with lots of lake time and new water toys to master on the lake. The Kimberly's own knee board so that was the toy to master this year. Brett had learned the week before at my brother/sister in laws so this was not new to him. However it was new to Blake. And he waited patiently all day while everyone else tried it out and finally got a turn at the end. He was soooooo excited to be "ski boarding" as he called it.
What form.

So happy to do something the big boys were doing.

He even hauled the board back when he fell off.

Now I will confess he was only going about 2 mph but still he was up and smiling and thought he was big time. Needless to say we have now purchased our own knee board. (We made a deal with the boys that if they let us sell their swingset to my girlfriend for little girl then we would let them pick something out for the lake in return and knee board was the pick).

Not only was their knee boarding but also a little lake football. Here Blake "attempts" to catch a pass from Dad.

Brett making the catch.

Blake 2nd attempt.

Nothing says 4th of July or summer time like freshly husked sweet corn.

Brett's turn on the knee board.

Brett feeling a little confident with his knee boarding skills.

More fun at our dock swimming and sliding.

Lake time is always a good time. The residents on the lake put on fabulous firework displays for all to enjoy. We are so fortunate to be apart of this "water community". Hope all had a safe and happy 4th of July.