Labor Day Recap

I hope everyone had a great labor day! We sure did! We go every year with Jonathan's family (on his mom's side) to Lake Ouachita in Arkansas. It's the perfect meeting point between the Memphis, Tennessee and Paris, Texas family. This is no small get together, mind you. We had thirty people this year! The Goldings, Byrds and Clarks each have 4 children, and several of us are now married with kids (and four babies on the way)...so it's a BIG group! SO FUN...

Everyone drives down and gets together at the Golding's house for dinner on Friday night. We all catch up and fellowship, and then on Saturday and Sunday we spend all day on the lake -- swimming, riding on the boats, wake boarding, knee boarding, and tubing. Then we get cleaned up and get together again for dinner...it's all about sun and food.

Now that all the cousins are starting families of our own, it'll just get bigger and bigger each year. Four of us were pregnant on the trip this year, and Christy, Jonathan's oldest cousin, got engaged on Saturday night!! It was definately a weekend to remember. There's just no telling how many people we will have next year!

I tried to be adventurous and take photos while we were on the boat, but it made me a little nervous to have a my new camera so close to water, but here's my attempt to take some pictures of our fun this weekend.

I know it's a little hard to see what all this is, but there is a camp back in the woods, and this is the swimming area for it with a high dive and another lower diving board. We pulled the boat as close as we could and then everyone walked down to it...well I took pictures from the boat...but it looked like fun!

Swimming in the COLD lake!

Could you tell we had been on the lake all day...looking so tired and sunburned.
So I don't like individual pictures of myself, but I want to remember the stages of my pregnancy - so this is me at 18 weeks...just a small bump.

All the pregnant ladies...Veronica is due in November, Ashley in December, Lauran in January, and then me in February.

Me and my sweet husband.

David had been sleeping...and Katie was letting him use her lap as a pillow.
Katherine and Scott, you can see in this picture that the boats are right beside each other...we would meet and tie them together and then spend pretty much the whole day at the swimming hole, swimming, eating lunch, and hanging out together! It's the best.

Ashley and sweet Kaleigh - she was all ready to get in the water.

Katherine - cute pose - she was finishing up lunch. Sarah's behind her sun bathing...she likes to do this most of all.