Our first weekend at the lake

Last weekend was our first weekend going to the lake this summer.  Since B-rad's parents weren't home to celebrate mine or Brian's birthdays, she decided to do it this weekend. 

 Ok...I've got no problem with desserts...

It was Cole's job to decorate our brownie cake.  

 He took great care in deciding just which letters he needed to extricate from their cardboard backing.

 He also wanted to be sure that none of those letters were going to fall off the cake.

 He made sure to push them waaaaay far down into the icing.  (Also notice the icing finger print on that 'h'?  Oy vay...)

 He was able to get two 'happy's but only one 'birthday' out of those letters.  

I asked him, "Now what?"  

He said, "Your names?" 

 I said, "Well-there's not enough letters for both our names. 

 Lets put our ages!!!!  Your dad is 41...&me?  Well, I am 26...."

That's what the cake says, people...it must be true...

 I have mixed feelings about the lake.  I don't like being away from home.  I like my couch.  I like my tv.  I like my bed.  But I do like the relaxed atmosphere of doing absolutely nothing at the lake.  I'm up at 7 am at my house on the weekends, but I didn't wake up until 1030 am on the houseboat.  Me likes that...

Unless you pay NO attention at all, you all should know that superstar blogger, Alicia UHM McAfee, is related to us.  She & I grew up together, blah, blah,blah & then she married B-rad's cousin, Daniel & voila - we're family.  So here's how it works:  Daniel's dad & B-rad's dad are brothers.  

Alicia's in-laws (Daniel's parents....B-rad's aunt & uncle...are you getting all this?) came down to the lake as well in their boat.  Notice the complete relaxation here?  

Barry on the left is Daniel's dad, Stanley on the right is B-rad's dad.  

One important thing that keeps me going to the lake is Ann's cooking.  I mean, look at that yummy food.  And I didn't have to lift one.single.finger.  That's heaven.

Notice Ann slaving away over the grill while B-rad & Brady chat about Mustangs?  

We took the houseboat onto the lake & hung out here for a few hours.  

That's right...be jealous...

be very, very jealous.

Right before the birthday party started, Brady took over as chief photographer.  I will spare you from a LOT of the photos he took.  However, who am I to spare you of this pretty gal right here?

Notice everyone look over & smiling/laughing?

Uhm, yea - this guy right here.  Well, uh, he was just a little, teeny, tiny bit intoxicated.  And he was taking video of the par-tay on his phone.  Complete with commentary...very loud commentary...

Stan & Ann got a new houseboat last year & it has a nice place on the top to hang out.  It has what is called a 'party top' so you're still under shade when you're up there. 

 Stanley put on these cool rope lights.  I love 'em.  It even has a ceiling fan.  

B-rad's mom does NOT rough it.  And I like that...

The top is also nice because there are so many of us, some can be up top, some can be out back, some can be out front & we're not all getting on my nerves in the same place.

Even out in the middle of the lake, we do NOT do without our devices.  

We brought the boat back in for the night & Brady was fishing for 1.3 seconds & caught this huge fish.  Now-I don't really care about fish.  I don't care when people catch them.  I just come running because:

A) that's just what people do when someone catches a big fish 

B) I wanted a pic for the blog.

See his entourage?  I told ya big fish are a big deal...