Summer Part 2

In June, my College Roommate and one of my "Bestest" friends from High School got married...to each other. The wedding was beautiful!!! It was great to see Brooke and Justin and so many other friends from Jackson.

 Leila was there and sang for the wedding. WHAT A TREAT!!! THE GIRL CAN SING!!!! We had a blast visiting and catching up.

(I think this is the only picture ever where Courtney AKA "2foot" is the tallest)

As we all know it's been HOTT this summer.

I don't know if it was the heat or a wild hair, but Dad bought a boat this summer. It's not new but it's new to us. I find it humorous that the boat has a name, "Reel Trouble," but I guess it's OK, since they (being Daddy, Tom and Daniel) did want the boat for fishing.

We have had a blast this summer on the boat. Daniel and I took it to the bay one weekend for fishing and we made our first trip to Crab Island. The Kelly's (Jared and Allison) were along for the trip as well as Mrs. Ginger, Melissa, Mrs. Debra and Mrs. Stanley and jet skis.

Daniel and Jared with their Mom's

Me and Allison

See Crab Island in the background? Who knew a slightly submerged island could be so much fun. The floating grills and ice cream stands were a big hit along with the inflatable slide and the live band playing on a floating stage. 

And the boat as been to the river here in Monroe County.

 Mama is a HUGE fan of Shelling, as in going to look for sea shells, sand dollars, and the like. She has heard of finding sharks teeth and sand dollars on the Alabama River before and we made a trip to see if there was any truth to the stories. Welp!! They are true. 

These are from Mama's collection. There were thousands of sand dollars and we found several sharks teeth.

One last Instagram picture of our river trip. 

OK, Instagram makes the picture "Way Cooler" than my camera ever could, but it's beautiful just the same. God's creation is an amazing thing.

Summer Catch Up

Since I don't get summers off work and I've been so jealous of the teachers out there I took a blogging break. Not intentionally, but that's my excuse. We've had a great summer, full of beach trips, lake trips, river trips and a wedding here and there.

For Memorial Day weekend we went to Georgia to Lake Sinclair with Aunt Micky. She has the cutest lake house on a cove of the lake. We rode on the boat, skied, tube with the neighbors children and visited "lake friends" on the boat. Life on the lake is so different, people who live on the lake are so laid back, life moves at a slower pace and no one gets in a hurry.  We actually got to the house on Thursday night and never got back in the car until Monday afternoon. We went everywhere on the boat.

We did feed this little family of geese. 

Well, I say no one gets in a hurry, unless your the neighbor with a boat house full of snakes...she was moving pretty fast, on her lawn mower that she drove over to the house to borrow a gun. Poor lady, her boat house had become a snake house. We counted five snakes under and around the house. Daniel shot one, but the others just escaped under water to come back later. 

Daniel and I can't wait to go back to Aunt Micky's. We had the best, most relaxing time there. It was such a treat to hang out with Aunt Micky and play all weekend. 

Things to remember: (Ignore my notes here,I want to remember these things)
Daniel decided to slalom - he got it on the first try and he's hooked now
We skied on the Hawaiian  Ski
We tubed until we couldn't move.
Aunt Mic taught me to drive her boat

On the way home we saw "Barbie Beach" in person.

Summer Catch UP...To be continued