Memorial Day Weekend

As has become a tradition over the last few years, we travel to Lake Palestine over Memorial Day weekend to spend time catching up with 3 other families who are close friends with the Eubanks. The group is different every year depending on who can make it, but here's the clan from this year's festivities:


Julia received a Dora fishing pole for her birthday, and she asked, more like begged, "I go fishing!" constantly throughout the weekend. Here she is fishing with both daddy and Poppy. She has a hard time reeling, but she loved being in charge of throwing the plastic pink fish back into the water (as you can tell in the picture with Poppy, she just threw it back in the lake).




Hanging out with Gran before getting ready to go on a boat ride...


Just some goofing around pictures on the back deck...




The highlight of the weekend for us was Julia's time actually on the lake. As many of you know, we enrolled her in Emler Swim lessons from the time she was 6 months old to 1 year old, which helped her become super comfortable at the lake last summer. But after a 9 month lake break with no swim lessons, we wondered if she would still be comfortable this year.

Memorial Day weekend was her first time to try getting in the lake this year, and she didn't hesitate for a single second. The moment her feet touched the swim platform on the back of our boat, she exclaimed, "I want get in lawter (water!)" She proceeded to jump off the swim platform again and again and AGAIN to anybody who was willing to catch her.


Then, she went wakeboarding with daddy for the first time!! We've both been looking forward to that moment for so long. He said she cried for about 20 seconds or so at first, but then was simply calm and quiet after that (note the Slippy blog post in which my child has to be forced into activities at first, yet quickly learns to love it!)


Here's the video of her first wakeboarding event. Note this is NOT for the faint of heart. The filming is very unsteady, and sadly only I can take responsibility for that. Sorry!

Video of: Julia's 1st Time Wakeboarding