A few weekends ago, we (along with my parents) took a trip up to visit my brother Joe and his family. We had a blast! While we were there we went to the fair, let the cousins play, and spent a lot of time on the lake. We went swimming, tubing, and water skiing.
Easton and Brady competed in a pedal car race at the fair. It was really fun and the cars were really cool. Easton won two heats and got second in the championship race. It was fun to see him be a little competitive!
Brady's legs weren't quite long enough to reach the pedals, so Riley had to help him quite a bit. He was still really excited that he did it.
The boys were really excited that they won medals!
We arrived at my brother's house the first night with enough time to take an evening boat ride. It was pretty relaxing, and Joe was a good captain.
The next day we were able to enjoy the water. This picture is of Easton and I going tubing. Easton enjoyed it, but Brady was a little scared and only went once.
Pretty cute baby...
Easton liked splashing around on this little beach near Joe's house. Easton has been wanting to go to a beach all summer. This isn't quite the beach that you would find next to an ocean, but it was close enough!
This is Riley skiing. Neither of us have really been skiing before, so we spent the whole weekend just trying to get up (I never made it). On our last day, Riley watched the kids while I went out on the boat and he came later to try again. Once he got there we headed out into the middle of the lake and the boat ran out of gas (maybe Joe wasn't such a good captain after all)! Joe was pretty embarrassed, but luckily we found another boat that offered to tow us to the dock near the gas station. It was pretty funny! Once we finally had a full gas tank we headed back out to the large lake for Riley to try skiing again. As soon as we started heading out, we saw huge black clouds rolling in. Joe checked his weather radar and a level 4 thunderstorm was about twenty minutes away! We decided to have Riley try a few more times to get up on his skis before we had to head in. Riley tried a few times with no real luck, meanwhile it had started sprinkling. The next thing we saw was lightning in the distance and the water was eerily calm. Joe said, "he's got one more shot and then we have to get him out of the water." Well, Riley made it up on that try and Joe took off toward the dock with Riley skiing behind. By this point the sky was dark, it was raining a little more, and there was lots of lightning about a mile away. Riley didn't fall and made it all the way to the dock! It started pouring down rain while we were loading the boat onto the trailer, but I was just happy that Riley didn't get electrocuted while he was in the water! This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hm83FKsheQ is a link so see Riley skiing. The whole thing was pretty funny, and we were glad that we went up to Joe's to visit.
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Nice skiing, Ry!
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