We had a fun long Labor Day weekend in Virginia at Smith Mountain Lake. Debi, Josh & Jesper flew into D.C & drove down with Paul & Jodi & we drove with mom and dad from Charlotte. My aunt & uncle, Rose & Reese drove from Iowa to join us, too.
Unfortunately, our Jeep started having trouble a few miles into the trip - but thankfully we were still close enough to home to turn around and reload our things into mom and dad's saturn. We were able to get it fixed once we returned home and it wasn't too major a repair.
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| Road Trip to SML |
One of the things we loved about visiting this lake is the center location between Charlotte and D.C - it's a great midway spot. Also, we loved floating in the water & the dock off our rental this year was a bit more challenging to get into the water.
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| Aunt Rose with Elise and John at the dock |
The rental house was great & made up for the easy entrance to the water. There were 5 bedrooms and each bedroom had its own bathroom. There was also a theater room & game room in the basement.
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| Cooking for a house full! |
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| Babies - and they travel with LOTS of STUFF! |
To add a little fun to our meals, I planned our lunch "on a stick." We had corn dogs, grapes on a long toothpick stick, carrot sticks and celery sticks and for dessert, cake pops!
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| Lunch on a stick |
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| View of the lake |
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| pb&j chillin' |
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| Josh catching some sun |
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| You can see how much the lake is down this summer |
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| Ariana |
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| John and his girls |
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| Reese and Rose |
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| Relaxing |
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| Mom with her grand-babies |
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| A few of the girls |
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| Josh, Debi & Jesper |
For my turn to do dinner we had chicken enchilladas and everyone had to draw a "utinsel" they would use during the dinner...here are a few snapshots of them.
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| Jesper |
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| Enjoying the lake |
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| Brother-husbands & sister-wives |
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| Ratzlaff family picture - we missed you, Curt! |
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