Summer Vacation 2009!!

Here goes - we went to Whispering Woods Lake rental on Lake of the Ozarks last week and we had a perfect week to be by the lake - it was HOT all week long and we took full advantage of it - here are the 13 adolescents that were along - from 5 families and we had an awesome time!

Marcus did all he could all week long - he kneeboarded.....

skied - mostly on 1 ski - here he must have been tired he is on two - only happened once all week and I took a picture :).....

and this was his favorite - wakeboarding - a friend offered for him to take it along and it was a HUGE HIT!!

Here goes Jamie - she was nervous about skiing but once she did it the first day she went everytime she got a chance and yes that was more than once a day ....

she also kneeboarded ....

and tried the wakeboard at the end of the week - she got up a couple of times but was too tired to keep herself up for too long-we should have tried earlier in the week!!

They both also jet skiied during the week and this machine went out almost all day long with 23 people in the house - someone was usually waiting for a turn and at the end of the week Jamie also skiied behind this!

This was on the second floor of the 3 story house - was game floor - we spent lots of time here also - hanging out and playing pool, fooseball and there was a card table up there too.

One night all the girls had this shirt on at the same time not knowing the others put them on too - was cute had to take a pic! It's a Western Volleyball camp shirt.

Emily De Ruyter was our big fisherman for the week - whenever she got a chance she was fishing off the dock and one night she caught this big catfish and another day she caught a big carp - she was excited.

This was on the bottom floor and we did all our cooking and eating down here the kids are watching a big screen TV - was nice to have a full kitchen - we made a pan of bars each day and they were always gone by night but the record was one day we put them out and within an hour and a half the 9X13 pan was gone.

This is one of my favorite pics - here they are getting ready to go parasailing 10 of the 13 kids did this one day

Marcus and Jamie chose to be drug in the water a ways on the way down - they had a great time and so glad they got a chance to do this

Marcus was having a good time and Jamie was too but holding on for dear life here.

UP UP and AWAY

Another pic of all the kids

Mike was playing off the dock one day with 2 boys and doing tricks - he still has it!!

These two girls went out one day on the jet ski and were being chased by boys - they came back and got Marcus and went to try find them again to scare them away - but they never did find them again :)

On the way home everyone was extremely tired - nap time - glad Mike got us back safely!

They were OUT for the count and yes I did take a nap too.

GREAT TIME AND WONDERFUL FRIENDS TO SHARE IT WITH!! So thankful everyone was safe for the week.