Greetings!  This is one of my favorite photos from the month of June!  So, Bridget can greet all who read this post about boating yesterday!

We finally had a truely warm day with lots of sun and no rain.  We took our dinner and headed for the lake.  We picniced on the shore and then launched the boat.  We had a really fun evening.  Too bad I forgot the camera.  Bridget and Logan both felt comfortable to let go of the boat to “swim” with mom.  Sterling even splashed his feet in the water.  Kimball and Calvin were back and forth between the boat and the hotdog.  Just when we thought we were done, Logan wanted more time riding the hotdog…so he took some wild rides all by himself!  I was surprised he didn’t fall off, he just kept grinning and whenever we stopped he would say “no, I’m not done.”

Truly Fun Times!

Do I have to wear this life jacket?

Bridget says “slower daddy”

The boys are brave this year…”faster!” and trying no hands or standing!

We have had lots of rain and stormy days…but still have found ourselves at the lake twice.  The water was quite choppy last Saturday morning, but we had a successful boat trip to test out the work Ammon had done on the engine and battery switch.

On May 30th we were “stuck” on the lake.  The boat would not start back up after we had stopped for swimming.  Ammon found the problem, the battery switch had melted.  Ammon got us fixed up to get home and then fixed the connection with lots of help from Sterling.  Playing on the boat is wonderful (for all the kids).

We made our first lake trip!  Monday, for family home evening, we had an outing to the lake.  The boat did great, the suburban worked fabulous, and the family had lots of fun.  We attempted fishing for the first time (with no success), we took bread to feed the ducks (and never got any ducks close enough to eat the bread we threw), and we enjoyed good times riding around.  Sterling was not fond of the life jacket, but LOVED the anchor down and playing on the boat.  It was a fantabulous time!

Calvin lost his tooth earlier in the day.

Kimball was willing to smile for the camera!

Bridget calling the ducks…Sterling pinching the cover snap.

Logan and Bridget climbing.

The water was too cold to swim…I was sure someone would slip in…but with all the climbing around nobody fell in!  The kids did manage to get their hands or feet wet off the back of the boat.

Kimball fishing.  The kids each got a turn to fish.

Ammon took Kimball, Calvin, Logan and Bridget fishing again on Saturday.  They tried fishing at the dock, again no success (that is ok by me) but lots of fun and an early start to Saturday morning.  They were gone one hour and came home for breakfast and a Primary activity.  It was a busy day.