Day At The Lake

John organized a company picnic today at Lake Anna and it turned out being a REALLY fun afternoon! A little muggy but it at least wasn't raining like the weather had predicted. This was the first time our family finally made it down to Lake Anna. There's apparently a beach along the side of the lake and trails and fishing spots. The kids had a blast! While the guys were getting the bbq cleaned off and getting stuff grilled, my friend and I took our kids over to the park area in front of the beach. There thankfully was a nice breeze going which helped to tolerate all of the wonderful mugginess!

Jocelyn was ALL over the playground equipment while Aubrey stayed behind at the picnic area with some of the other girls she met - drawing their outlines on the walkway with sidewalk chalk and playing hopscotch.

We ate. We talked. We ate some more. (We would have played games if they weren't left at HOME! I didn't know we had signed up to bring games until we were over half way there and he mentioned it. Oops! Oh well! We still had fun.) And of course you've GOT to leave room to eat a COOKIE! :)

And time to goof off with Daddy...


My friend and her son decided it was time to walk over and do a little fishing. Aubrey and my friend's son get along really well and she even got a little fishing lesson!

And Jocelyn just spent her time digging up rocks and throwing them in the water. Or sitting REALLY close to the water's edge and giving her Mama a heart attack. What's a girl to do, right?!?! She also thought it would be fun to spazz out on all the sugar from her cookie and try to wake up her brother that was peacefully sleeping in his stroller. So I distracted her elsewhere so the beast wouldn't awake. Smart move I think!

That only lasted for a brief moment, so it was time to head on back. On our way, I spotted this beauty along the side of the trail and snapped a shot...

No time to snooze! She found a buddy to toss around the ball with!

And Andrew got a little bored after waking up and found his TOES! :) He's so silly...and flexible too.

It was a great day spent at the lake!