Tablerock

Don't judge me I know that my last post was in July and I literally let the summer pass by without any documentation.  This is going to be my poor attempt to re-live our fabulous summer via the blog. I always want to keep up with the blog because I love looking back at all the great times we have had and having a space to keep all the stories that I would probably forget.



As always our family adores summer and all the fun and festivities that come with having 10 weeks off to just be together.  We really jammed packed so much into our summer this year that while it was fun I think we will plan on a little bit more of nothing time next year.  I believe I left off with 4th of July for summer posts so I will pick up there and give a brief recap of all our summer fun.

The second weekend in July we headed Tablerock lake for a getaway with the Herron clan.  As a child we visited table rock/Branson on a regular basis and I have so many fond memories that I am so excited to share with the kids.  We went down on Wednesday morning to see our great condo conveniently located right beside the pool.  The kids were ecstatic to have the pool and lake so close and could not wait to jump right in.  Thursday we decided to make our first trip to Silver Dollar City with our kids.  Growing up we went all the time and I love SDC, Greg however had never been so he was able to experience it with the kids too.  We had a beautiful day for the park and the kids were in heaven.  They loved the rides and all the novelty things that SDC has to offer. We saved the water rides till the end of the day so we would not have to walk around wet all day.  Little did we know that a massive rainstorm was rolling in and intended on getting all of us soaked.  We had a very soggy walk to the car but the kids did not seem to mind at all.



We spent all day Friday at the pool, swimming, and relaxing.  Briggs who had previously been a bit apprehensive about the water suddenly became a little fish.  He swam for hours straight and I am pretty sure he would have swam through the night.  It was fabulous having the pool within a few steps of our place.



Saturday we rented the mother of all pontoon boats to hit the lake for a few hours.  The pontoon boat had a top deck with slide attached.  The kids were thrilled to be on the lake and for the most part dying to get in the water.  I was pretty shocked that both Briggs and Harper got in the water and swam all over (there was lots of talk about sharks and huge fish pre-trip).  A few of the kids actually took a minute to catch a nap on the cruise.  Saturday night we headed into town for some go-carting and ski-ball action.  Briggs was over the moon about driving go-carts and we are still hearing about what an amazing race car driver he is.  I love all the arcade games and always end up spending way too much money on all of it.



All together we had a awesome trip and made some great memories with our cousins and Doe Doe and Papa.  Thanks for all your planning Doe Doe and everyone that helped make the trip a great success.