Lakehouse Day

Saturday B worked but Sunday made up for it ten times over. His brother came to church with us for the first time and loved it. First time visitors always get a little goodie bag and wow have they grown since I got mine. You get a choice of books, a coffee mug besides the homemade cookies and other goodies... This is the second person we've brought who has gotten the books and I mentioned I didn't get one when I first came so she gave me the other one : ) . Hehe I'm happy now. We introduced him to a ton of people who of course were all uber friendly. Unfortunently none of the people from our small group except for one young couple that's been hanging out with our small group were there. They'll have time enough to meet him! He was able to meet my mentor, the lady I've been meeting with every few weeks and she introduced the video series we were doing so that was fun. Oh and he also got to meet a really fun young couple we've gotten together with a few times that seem right up his alley except for the whole married part : ) .

We dropped him off at home and tried to convince him to come to one of the couples in our small groups lakehouse with our small group but he'd had enough people interaction for the day I think and stayed home. So we went by TWO Target's for THIS bathing suit and had no luck. I ended up with this little way too ruffley coral two piece that did not meet my appropriateness level OR cuteness level but silly me it had to do because I didn't bring a back up. I only got into it when another girl who came didn't bring a bathing suit for the same reason ended up wearing one of the other girl's extra one piece she brought. Only it fit her perfectly lol and I ended up in my skanky two piece. I kept a towel around me. Anywho we suited up and hit the water. A couple of the girls water skied and then B got out there and did well! He was trying to convince us all he hadn't been able to get up before though he wakeboards like no tomorrow. J even got out there and gave it a try on these cute little trainer skis. If it weren't for my bathing suit practically falling off on the boat (recalling WHY I don't buy bathing suits at Target or Old Navy anymore) I'd probably be very sore today. S stayed behind with the girl taking the picture and told us all he had a new friend when we got back and then promptly followed her around for the rest of the night. She got a bunch of fun pics if you want to see those let me know and I'll email you the link. Ours are up on Flickr but I didn't take any during the main part of the day as there were enough cameras around.

J (yes, J) drove the boat home and we enjoyed smoked turkey, brisket, and pork, Whole Foods potato salad, fruit salad, chips, cherry vanilla soda, and Symphony bar chocolate brownies and spent the next four hours eating and enjoying good company. We drove home with the boys tanned, hair bleached, and quiet in the back and the sunroof open with the clear blue night sky above us and the half moon sitting perfectly in the shape of the sunroof as I laid my head back. It was a pleasant day.



That's me in the orange ruffley thing on the far left and Brandon next to me. The girl in the one piece is the one leaning towards me. She's too cute! The girl in the middle is a good friend I've gotten together with quite a few times as well. I figure you can't see faces well enough in here to be concerned but I won't be keeping this up for long.