Out on the Lake

When we got to Tablerock, we got right in the water! It felt so great getting into the water. But it has been so incredibly hot there as well that the water was almost too warm! But we'll take it!

I am so glad that Titus finally got over his fear of the water! Last year there is no way he would have been swimming around like that. And even at the beginning of this trip he would not jump into the water. He was cured of that by that end though!



Lillie, Zethan and I riding the jet-ski! This was Zethan's second ride. On his first ride when we got there, he bumped his chin really hard on the plastic part in the front and gashed it open. So we were glad that he felt okay to get back on!

And there is the little man hanging out on the deck. I think this was a picture that Matt took while I was out on the jet-ski!


And then there is Lillie-not afraid in the least of the water. She had a blast jumping into the water. Matt would do back flips off the dock, so she would jump backwards too. She couldn't bring herself to try an actual flip but it was cute to see her halfway try to do whatever her daddy did! She even tried (emphasis tried) to ski! But that is another post!


Jumping and more jumping!

That is Matt with Titus on the Jet-ski!

They had a good time riding together!


Now we are out on the boat. The kids really liked the boat! Lillie and Titus especially because whenever there would be down time they would get to jump out into the water and swim around!


And Kalisa had some bubbles on the boat so while the boat was driving they would hold the wand up and the bubbles would go everywhere! So fun! But then Titus dumped half the bubble solution on himself. So Uncle Gary's solution for cleaning him off....


Dunking him in and out of the water over the side of the boat. It was pretty funny! You can't really see what is going on in the picture. You can kind of see Titus's hand on the side on the boat. But that is Gary and Matt dunking him.


Titus actually thought it was pretty funny too!


While waiting for the boat to get tied up when we were done, Titus decided to pretend he was wake boarding. So there is is standing in the wake board boots in the boat. Someday Titus. Someday.
Matt is really good at wake boarding and he also did the slalom ski. There was a little slalom ski course set up out in the middle of the lake and it was so fun to see Matt do it. He would tell you that he couldn't do it very well, but he really did awesome! I didn't have my camera out while he was getting pulled behind the boat but my sister-in-law Rebekah I think has some pictures so when I get them from her I will have to post them!

Cliff Jumping

We just got home from a Tablerock vacation last night and I have lots of pictures to post! But I wanted to post these first. Because it was pretty much awesome =)


Matt and I went cliff jumping. And yes, I am holding my nose and yes I am screaming like a little girl. The whole way down! But it was so high up there! I just couldn't help but scream! That feeling of free falling like that is crazy! And you drop so quickly!

Matt's Uncle Gary took us over to the cliffs in his boat and then the kids stayed in the boat with him while we climbed up there. Zethan was pretty nervous for us. And Lillie started to come with us and I asked her if she was going to jump too and she said she was. Then I pointed up the where we were going and asked her again, and then she said, "No way, not from up there!" (I would not have let her anyway had she wanted to-maybe when she is a little bigger)

It was definitely over 30 feet high up there! I'm not sure I would have gone through with it if Matt wasn't up there with me. It looks high from the boat but then when you get up there and look down! Oh man! But Tablerock Lake is so deep that there wasn't really too much to worry about. The boat had a depth reader on it and it was, if I remember right, about 50 or 60 feet deep where we jumped. But then it just drastically gets deeper and deeper towards the middle of the lake. Well over 100 feet deep!

Matt went up for a second jump. I didn't get a very good picture of him though. I think I am in need of a nice camera. I got the picture up above and then the soonest I could get another picture is the splash in the picture below!

Oh well! I guess we'll just have to do it again next time we are there! And next time I will be keeping my legs straight as I go into the water!

Barn Swing {SDC}

Titus trying to milk the cow. He thought it was pretty funny. Don't worry, its not real.

Waiting in line for the giant barn swing. The longest line we waited in. Hot. Muggy. People. But the ride is awesome! Little sis, Kimalee had never rode it before, so she sat by me. I looked over at her before it stared, while we were all buckled in and told if she needed to hold my hand she could. She just kind of laughed, but after the first couple of swings she promptly grabbed my hand and I looked over at her and she had her little eyes squeezed shut as tight as they could be.

I think Lillie took this picture while they were waiting for us in line. Lillie was too short for this ride. Which of course meant Titus is too. They were both sad about that. Titus more than Lillie.

Little Zethan, patiently waiting. Ha! He isn't exactly a fan of being strapped in his stroller. But he did pretty well overall! Fun times!

Breakfast with Papa

Titus enjoyed helping his papa make pancakes the first morning of our camping trip!

Trying to get Titus to look at the camera. He was being a booger.

And of course he will look if the spatula is in front of his face.

Growing up Dad was always the one to cook breakfast on our trips. It used to be over the open fire in a cast iron skillet. But Dad has become wiser in his years =) and now just uses the electric skillet=) Much easier, and more reliable.
Thanks for all the good food, Dad!