Evening at the Lake

While Aaron's siblings were all in town we decided to have a night at the lake.

Mom and Dad packed a picnic, and the brothers and older grandkids took turns cranking the homemade ice cream.

Nora splashed in the salt-water puddles from the ice cream bucket and had a great time...that is, until she splashed herself in the face. After that, the fun was all over.

After dinner we went out on the boat. Zeke has been before but it's been a long time. I was quite pleased that he made no complaints about putting on a life jacket. Nora, on the other hand, hated her life jacket. Between that and being super tired, she cried for most of her short boat ride. I think she would have really enjoyed it if she had been able to ignore her life jacket. (And probably would have gone to sleep in the boat!)

After a few minutes we came back to the shore to drop Nora off with her aunts and grandma and then went back out for a quieter ride with Zeke. Aaron is superman for rowing the boat all by himself while I held Nora and then for going fast and far according to Zeke's requests.

After our boating turn, we came back to the pavilion to catch up with Nora, who was working her way to fast asleep in Grandma's arms.

It was a great night of family and the great outdoors. So glad we put together this last-minute trip!