Memorial Day Weekend at Lake Palestine

Still catching up from the last month...

For Memorial Day weekend, we packed up and headed to Lake Palestine for two days. Jarret's family has a group of friends that includes three other families. Luckily, two of those families own property in the same neighborhood at Lake Palestine and so we all got to hang out as a group. The ladies made it required attire for the girls to wear visors and the guys to wear hats with the weekend's theme: Lake-o-rama. Aren't we a classy looking bunch?

Julia had a wonderful time exploring her new castle. We stayed at the Douds' house, who also have grandchildren, and so Julia had no shortage of new toys to play with. Regardless, Elsie (her pink cow) always stays close at hand:



Wandering the deck, peering out, and clearly excited about something as dad caught her mid-clap:

One of the days we headed to the neighborhood pool, which was Julia's first trip to a "real" pool (outdoor, and not the indoor Emler swim school pool). She had fun hanging out in the kiddie pool and in her hippo float, while daddy had fun giving her a mohawk:

Julia's cousins hung out at the pool, too:

Jarret took some cool night shots from the deck:

And on our final day there, we took Julia out in the 3-seat tube for the first time. She seemed to enjoy being at the lake and in the tube, and didn't seem bothered by the tube one bit. That's a good sign!! (L to R: Katie, Kendall, Caden, Julia, Jarret):

Birthday Blog coming soon everyone. I know I'm not speedy Blogger...