Family Lake Weekend/Father's Day

For the past week John and I have not been living in reality. We have been living at the Lake. We were fortunate enough to spend a week before he begins life as an Intern with members from both of our families. Since not everyone is jobless like me and John right now (which hopefully for me will be changing sooner than later) not everyone was able to be there. So naturally we were only able to have a good time, because a great time can only had if everyone is present : ).

Reese and Allie Rainbow

Merrell, Reese, Emmy, and Jack eating pizza

It's really sad how Allie gets NO attention from her Aunt....

Merrell was surprisingly one of the bravest children! She even loved being pulled on the Tube!

Push Pops seem to be for children of all ages

All the kids together

Father's Day

Erin was really sneaky and drove up on Friday night after work to surprise my Dad for Father's Day. When I asked her what she got him, she typically replied, "Um..I thought me driving up here could be his gift." She just happened to be right because luckily for our Dad there is no new Alan Jackson CD or ipod case that is better than just having all his girls home.

Touch is not really Poochie's Love Language...

Jackson LOVED riding on the pontoon boat every night. I guess it's the wind in his face that he loves because we could never get him to look at the camera...i.e. the picture below.

Settling In

After all the unpacking and unloading we are finally settling in to our little house on the corner. On Saturday night we went to the neighborhood block party where we met a lot of nice people. There were about 40 or so families there, and the majority were either young couples with little children or elderly people. Everyone was extremely welcoming and friendly so it was a lot of fun. There was even a band! However since I am in no position to scare potential friends away I didn't break out my dancing skills just yet. I did make my Mom's Chocolate Chip Pound Cake though, and that seemed to be a big hit since there was none left over to bring home.

The past couple of days we have just tried to get our house fixed like we like it. It has been a lot of fun and almost kind of like a second honeymoon in a way. We've never really had time like this where we were both off of work and had nothing to do but whatever we wanted. We're trying to not take it for granted either because come July the party is over. John starts his intern year July 1st, and from what I hear he's not going to be around much. Good thing we brought Jackson with us : ).

Here are some pictures of what we have done to the house so far:

Patriotic John made sure we had our flag up for Memorial Day

The Living Room

This is right beside the backdoor in the Kitchen