Last week were on vacation at Lake Poinsett, SD. It is about 3 hours away. We stayed at a friend's lake cabin with Steve and Tonia, Nate and Lisa, Evan and Kim. We had 11 children from the ages of 1 to 10. It was SO MUCH FUN! Evan and Kim took their speed boat and Steve took his dad's fishing boat. We went from a Monday to a Friday. The whole week was hot and sunny!
Monday morning Toby went fishing and he caught Walleye and lots of them! I think he may have caught 5 fish in about 2 hours. He was on cloud nine. The rest of the days we did much of the same thing..boat, swim, nap, fish and soak up a lot of sun. Just how vacation is meant to be :). All the big girls learned how to ski, all the big kids knee boarded, Evan learned how to wake board! Kim and I went on a crazy tube ride that made us feel like a kid for around 5 minutes and around 30 for the next 5 day, but it was SO worth it! All the mom's skied, the dad's wake boarded and skied, the men fished with the occasional kid along and we all ate a lot! It was a great week.
On Wednesday we went to the Children's Brookings Museum. It basically was a great big play yard for the kids. They had everything that real life has but a condensed version for the kids. Like: a grocery store, a farm, an ice cream parlor, a news anchor place, huge blocks to build with, a mechanic shop with a car you could work on, a water thing, a music room, an art room, dinosaur park, and just about anything you could think of. It was great seeing our children run around trying to play with EVERYTHING. We were there 4 hours and the kids had a blast.
Trey tubed with his friends which was a big surprise. He is getting more daring everyday. My little boy is growing up....sniffle sniffle. At first he wasn't so sure about it, but if Carter is going to do it then it must be okay. The first time he went granny speed but by the last day he was going "no hands" like the rest of them :). Another thing he started to do is jump of the dock with his life jacket. He doesn't even need to plug his nose. He runs and jumps and goes down and resurfaces with a smile on his face. He also swam and swam and swam on vacation. He was in the water more than he was out of the water! Trey also learned how to play a kindle with apps on them. He played games like angrybirds, a train game, and anything that the older kids showed him. He now wants and i-pad or kindle for his birthday. You can about imagine how proud his dad was when he told him that :)! Trey went to bed great every night. He played so hard everyday that he was just exhausted by bedtime. He had a great vacation just like the rest of us!
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