A day at the lake!

In the past month we've been super blessed by getting to go to the lake with some of our friends that have family lake houses. It's so nice to be able to drive just a short little way and feel like you're on a little mini vacation. The boys have had an amazing time - swimming all day, boat rides, sea doo's, fishing and more - absolutely nothing not to love! We were pretty sure before but now we are 100% certain that both the boys are going to be huge water lovers! I didn't take any pictures of our first lake trip so I took a ton this past trip - get ready - I couldn't choose just a couple of favorites :)
The Day boys and the Allen boys - cutest boys EVER!! They are all very close in age. John-Mark is only 3 months older than John-Daniel. Those two had the best time running around together. It made me so happy to see John-Mark with his own friend that was his age - he's always running around with James' friends, which they're all friends but I like that there are some boys right there with John-Mark as well.

These boys have No Fear! They love to jump in to the water - but even better than that they like to stand on Jeremy's shoulders and jump in! Look at John-Mark loving watching his brother take the giant leap as he swims to the ladder.

He was ready to do it for himself!

Then it was time for a ride on the Sea-Doo to which James kept saying "faster daddy, faster!"

Then they each had to get in the drivers seat for themselves-

John-Mark probably sat here and "drove" for 30 minutes - just loving it!

Enjoying a nice ride on the boat - someone is getting very sleepy :)

Is this like a boys rite of passage - peeing off the dock - And very proud of himself :)Side note - James is almost swimming by himself with no life jacket! He can jump in and float to the top by himself and then tread water/swim his way over to you then turn around and swim his way back to the side of the pool. I'm so proud of him! Now we just have to get him comfortable with floating on his back!

Then it was time for some tubing!

I LOVE this pic! This is just after they finished tubing - they both look soooo happy - my heart could burst!

Then it was James and Jeremiah's turn to tube - all by themselves

Then, to my shock - my 23 month old baby grabbed on to the little ski board and was pulled behind the sea-doo - and LOVED it!

kicking those legs the whole way!

I have to remind myself that he's not even 2! James wouldn't even do this - my baby boy is such a big boy! He probably went like this for over 5 minutes. When his was finished he kept opening and closing his fists - probably because he was holding on so tightly the entire time :)

After all the water fun we decided to do a little fishing

Playing with the fish John-Mark caught - this is one thing about having boys that is icky to me - I stayed pretty far from the bucket with the fish in it - just in case it jumped out - ha!

Of course our sisser girl was there in her own little baby pool :)

One last run and jump before we had to leave!

We are so thankful for our wonderful friends the Nix's and Days that invited us to share such a wonderful time with them.