Family Vacation

Over the 4th of July weekend, we took a little family vacation with my parents and my brother and his girlfriend. Turns out, this is first family vacation we've had in like 7 or 8 years where everyone came. So it was long overdue...and we had lots of fun. We went to Table Rock Lake and stayed in a condo there. As soon as we got there, it was like Noah knew we were on vacation. He was running all over the place exploring every little corner of the condo and was very excited. You really don't need much to entertain an almost 1-year-old. He was happy just running in the closets and climbing on the furniture!

But eventually we did venture outside and go swimming for a little bit.

He loved it but the sun had already started to set and the pool was in the shade so his little lip started shivering and we had to take him out. And silly me had forgotten to bring a swim diaper, so he had just been swimming in a regular diaper and when he got out that thing must have weighed 30 lbs. He sat down and it exploded....what looked like little ice crystals went everywhere! That's some strange stuff that's inside a diaper...

We also went parasailing while we were there. I had done it once before in the Bahamas but it was everyone else's first time and to be honest I was kind of surprised Jeff wanted to go. He's usually not a big fan of heights. But we all had fun and it was a beautiful day to be flying over the lake.

To top off our 4th, we watched the fireworks show at the lake from our the balcony of our condo which was nice so Noah could go ahead and go to bed. I'm kind of sad that he didn't get to see fireworks for his first 4th of July, but I think I would have been even more sad at how bad of a mood he would've been in if he'd stayed up that far past his bedtime. So it worked out for the best. We had a great time and are thankful that we got to spend a great weekend with our family....can't wait for the next one!