Making Memories

I basically grew up at Lake Texoma.  We spent our summers there and I have so many great memories of it.  A lot of those fun times were shared with one of my very best friends, Amanda.  She lives in Abilene with her family now, so I was just giddy with excitement when we were finally able to decide on a weekend to get together at the lake.

Here's our crew in ascending order.  We had a 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 year old.

After we loaded them all up in the boat, we headed over to the beach.  They played in the water, jumping off the tube...

playing catch and wrestling...

playing football...

and taking breaks to lounge on the float.

After all of that fun play time, we took the innertube out for the first ride of the day.  The four big kids went first--some loved it more than others--but they all tried it.  About 20 minutes after our tubing excursion began, a huge storm blew in.  Fast!  We hightailed it back to the house and barely made it before the monsoon hit!

The next day the sun was back out and it was gorgeous.  As in 75 degrees gorgeous. 

Three generations of great friends.  Both Gigi's, me and Amanda, and our kids.  Our moms have been friends since elementary school and we are continuing that tradition, even if we don't live in the same city anymore.

The boys wanted to go first and they all loved it this time.  Yay!

These two lovebirds always found a way to be near each other!  It was so sweet. 

Both Gigi's took the plunge and hopped in the innertube with the two little ones.  They had a nice leisurely ride and everyone was all smiles.

Then the two big boys hopped in with them and we kicked it up a notch.

We thought our moms had probably had enough, but then they told us that they wanted to go by themselves.  And they wanted to go really fast!  Look at these two!  They tried so hard to get outside of the wake and were flying super fast and screaming the whole time!

After our crazy morning of tubing, we went back to the house for lunch.  The kids started playing in the backyard and were having so much fun that we decided to stay there.  They played with the water table...

lounged in the baby pool...

and ran many races that involved the slip and slide.

After all that hard work, these serious athletes had to rejuvenate their muscles in the hot tub. 

What a fun weekend we had making memories with The Golding family.  We plan on making this an annual event and look forward to many more summers together.