Family Get-Away

Gracie was so excited to go for a car ride! After about 15 mins. she had that "Are we there yet?" look.


Getting ready for a boat ride.


Swimming in the middle of the lake!



Caddo River Bayou boat ride, Alligator just up ahead!


Looking for the Alligator.


We enjoyed getting away for a few days this week and camping in East Texas at the lake house. We spent one night in the tent and realized that the middle of June is probably past the prime-tent-camping period in Texas. We went to sleep just drenched with sweat and didn't begin to cool down until about 3:00 a.m. Thank goodness we were at the lake house and were able to stretch an extension cord down to the tent and set up a fan to make the still night air move just a little bit. The second night a strong storm moved in and after checking to see how water-tight our tent wasn't we stayed in the house in the air-conditioning!

Peggy, the boys and I took a bayou boat ride on the Caddo river and enjoyed seeing God's beauty. We even had the privilege of seeing an alligator just ahead of our boat. He quickly swam below and was not seen again. He was pretty good size at about 6 feet long.

We all had fun swimming and cooling off in the lake. There were very few people on the lake during week and it felt like we had it all to ourselves. The neighbors gave the boys a small inflatable boat with an oar and they had a blast rowing their boat and then falling out of it into the water. We took Gracie down with us and she loved being in the water as well. Brian and I enjoyed taking another turn this summer at skiing and the boys found that they enjoyed jumping off the pontoon boat into the middle of the lake and swimming around.

Our trip was too short and we look forward to doing it again real soon.