Fun on Lake Gaston

We spent a few hours out on the lake last week. I was blessed to grow up close to the lake and spent a lot of time out on the water. We did a lot of swimming, tubing, knee boarding, skiing, and wake boarding.

Josh is a little water bug and loves to swim. He's getting more comfortable in the water and we caught him laying on his back a few times while we were at the lake. He's been too afraid to float on his back before now. I'm hoping to get him to some swim lessons soon and the apartment we're moving to has a pool so I'm sure we'll get lots of practice in next summer.

We went over to our friend's house for some playing around. Roy and Christy have two sons, Aaron and Ethan. Ethan was about 12 days old when I babysat him for the first time. They were crazy to leave him with me. I couldn't drive yet and I don't know what I would have done if something had happened. They didn't go far but still....I can't imagine leaving my 2 week old with a 14-15 year old. Crazy, I tell ya! Anyway, Ethan is who started calling me Hen and it stuck. They're good friends to our family and love the Lord like crazy. We spent a lot of time over at their dock growing up.

Running off of the dock

He's flying!!

He had to get a reaaalllly big head start

Believe it or not, this wasn't Josh's first time out on the tube. He just didn't remember having been out there before. It was the summer he turned one so he wasn't very big at all. We start 'em young out on LKG. :)

Talking to Christy about tubing

Daddy is hanging on for dear life!

There goes Daddy...

David's tube almost took Aaron out.

Josh was very concerned that Roy would drive as fast as he had when Aaron and David were out there. We promised him that he wouldn't try to throw him off like he did the big boys. (Roy promised he wouldn't because he was scared of Josh's Grammy!) :)

Looking a little nervous.

David held on to Josh's tube for a few minutes. After Josh had gotten used to being out there David let go.

Look Mom, no hands!

Then Josh got REALLY brave and started leaning out of the tube to splash David, who was splashing him. We cringed when he leaned over because we were afraid the tube would flip. He even asked Roy to go faster TWICE! He'll be an old pro next summer. 

He was so proud!

Thank you, Roy, Christy, Aaron and Ethan for letting us swim in your lake and for the boat ride! We love you guys!