Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Mother's Day at Donner Lake!!!

Mother's Day was a beautufil, fun day! Our friend, Teri, came over the day before and aksed us if we wanted to join her at Donner Lake! She wanted to get a bunch of "mom" friends together for fun, sun and a BBQ. It was so much fun! The weather was great...the wind didn't kick up until the end of the day, and we met a bunch of new people and everyone, including the kids of course, had a BLAST!

Jacob getting his feet wet....He wasn't too sure about this....

The Canadian Geese getting in on the action!


Justin having fun in the sand.

John and Jacob at the shore!

Justin's friend Nick brought a surf board and showed him how to paddle and stand up on it!



Here is Nick out on his board.

John ended up travelling back home (the sweet man) to get us things...the weather was SO nice we didn't bring things like thongs, tank tops, football....John went back and got those things, and among other things, Justin's spring suit! The water is quite cold, so he was very thrilled to wear it!

My little surfer boy!
Teri, Roz and Rob brought kayaks, so the boys went out, after the ladies and men, and had a blast! I was afraid to try it....but I did at the end of the day and loved it!

Here are Teri and Roz getting Nick and Justin (on the left) into the kayaks.

Justin brought his snorkel and had a great time playing with it in the water.

Here are us Moms.....Me, Roz, Teri, Molly and...I suck....I can't remember the other two women's names.....they were all very nice and we were lucky enough to have Teri and Roz (and their hubby's and kids) come over to the house for some wine and conversation afterwards!

Brian had an awesomely large kite, and once the wind picked up John and he tried to get it in the air while the Q was going. Yummy chicken!

This was when I decided to go out in the kayak. I didn't have a swim suit on and I was worried about falling into the super cold water, but I really wanted to try it. Justin came out with me in case anything happened; he is just so sweet! We had a great time!
John snapped thiese while we kayaked!

Here is Justin having fun on the surfboard! That "fish" in the background is Mykayla!

Here I am kayaking!! I would love to get a couple so we could do this during the summer months and not only enjoy the great outdoors, but get some exercise too! Woop!

2 comments:

Diane said...

Look like a perfect Mother's Day enjoying the area you in live in to its fulklest! So happy that you met other young mothers too. sounds like a great group and looked like hecka fun. The video of you in the kayak (?) didn;t work for me. Justin on the surf board I love! We will have to get him down to Capitola in the waves!!

Erin said...

What a nice Mother's Day. Rob and Steven are going to love the pictures and video of your surfer boy. You are a natural kayaker.