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weekend rewind

This past weekend, three of my best girls from college and I (and our families!) rented a lake house to get together.  I had been looking forward to this weekend for a couple months, and it didn’t disappoint!  We had 8 adults and 9 kids together and it was CHAOS, TIRING, HILARIOUS, FUN, and PERFECT!  The kids got along so well and it was so, so good to hang out with my girls that I don’t get to see very often.  We actually packed up our boat(!) and rode over there Friday night on the water.  It was only about a 25 minute ride from our neighborhood dock, and of course we’d all rather be on the boat than stuck in a car! 

When we got there…the chaos started immediately!  Anything went😜  I pulled out the slip and slide and the kids had a blast…we fed them pizza in the yard and they were all tuckered out by (a little later) bed time!  We cooked that night and were all in bed by midnight…guess that’s what happens when you know you have to be with the little ones the next day! 

On Saturday, kids were in swim suits and going full steam ahead by 8:30 am.  It was wild!  They’d bounce back and forth from the lake/paddle boat and the slip and slide.  We’d all take turns helping watch the craziness, getting food, drinks, puddle jumpers, whatever it took to control the chaos!  The guys took all the “big” kids tubing while the babies napped…which allowed us mamas some time to chill and catch up.  We had babysitters arrive at 8 so the adults could head out for some adult time!  We went on a sunset cruise to a restaurant on the lake and had the best time.  

We all had to pack up and head home Sunday morning which was the pits…weekends like this come and go too damn fast.  It was so good for all of us to see each other and let our kids play together, a weekend we need to recreate more often!  It was a good one.

 



 









 
 






 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 


 

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