Anyway, it was so much fun and the kids were great! They loved the sea doo's and being pulled on the bumper tubes behind the boat. Malia even tried skiing behind the sea doo and I was so proud of her for trying! She is still pretty little, but she wanted to try so we let her! She held on for maybe 50 yards before she flipped over...She was actually doing really well too and was just kinda sitting on the back of the skii's but didn't ever stand up so she just had all the water splashing her face like crazy and when she finally let go and went under the water she kinda panicked and didn't want to try it again! But that's ok! She did great just to try it! Maybe next year when she's a little bigger and more familiar with the water, etc she will try it again!
Cole took almost the whole trip to get used to the water and he just wanted to play on the beach all day every day. We would ask him if he wanted to go on the sea doo or on the boat or tube or anything and he'd just calmly say 'no'. So we finally just took him and made him go out...then we'd ask him if he had fun or he liked it and he'd say 'yeah'. But if we asked if he wanted to do it again, he'd just say 'no' again! Funny kid! And when we'd try to get him in the water he'd freak out really bad unless you were holding onto him. But by the last day, he was swimming around all by him self and would be the last one in the water. He LOVED to splash people like crazy and thought it was the funniest thing ever! It was great!
Both kids tried the slide on the houseboat and neither of them loved it the first time. But Malia is so brave and tried it again (without me forcing or bribing her this time! hee hee!) and by the end of the week she'd go 8-10 times by herself without us even asking her! She was so cute to watch on it too...she just kinda flailed her arms and legs out and would belly flop everytime (that slide would really shoot ya out of there too!) so it's a good thing she had a life jacket on! She did great! I kinda had to nudge Cole down his first time, then he didn't ever want to try it again the whole trip. Maybe next year!!
We were camped in a perfect area! It had a great beach for the kids and a sweet little inlet next to us that was perfect for swimming and not big enough for anyone else to park there so we didnt' have to have any neighbors that were super close! And we could swim over to the little island and jump off of it, etc. The boys even set up one of their holes of frisbee golf over there ... it was a great spot! We also had great weather and it was pretty much just in the 90's the whole week and a nice breeze to cool down the houseboat, etc. but not any of the huge wind storms! It was a great week and we couldn't have had it any better! Hopefully next year everyone will be able to be there too =)
Here are just a few of the 400+ pictures that I took:
The houseboat and our nice little beach
Malia going off the slide =)
The kids in their way cute towels that Grandma Baumann made for them
Ry trying to do a back flip off the back deck...
A couple of Ry's failed attempts at doing some kind of trick off the slide!
Malia is still super a girly girl and a little princess even while playing in the sand!
Cole swimming in the water with daddy
Malia & Mason on the tubes...I love Malia's face! Then Cole riding with Mason...they were pretty squished in there and I think they both were ready to get out pretty quick!
More bumper tube pictures
Grandma had all the kids give her a thumbs up when they were sitting on their bums and holding on when we started moving on the boat...this is Cole's thumbs up! Cute little man!
One of Ry's many awesome jumps on the wakeboard
One of my little wimpy jumps on the wakeboard...some day maybe I'll be able to jump the wake! :S
The 'Fun Island'
Just some cute pics of my little dude Cole
Malia drying off in the sun =)
My cute kiddos
Me and the ladies! (Rheanna, Sheri, then me)
Playing at the beach...we totally didn't plan to have Mason and Cole in the same swimming suit, but it was pretty cute when they sat and threw rocks together!
The sea doos...Grandma got some good mileage with malia...she kept asking her to go again and again!
Cole showing me his muscles! He cracks me up! Love this little guy!
Our little family
The water fight on the last day...Cole thought it was hilarious! I love the pic of Ry, Jeff, and Sheri all shooting at Lee (grandpa) who was swimming in the water! It was great!
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