Weekend Full of Water.....

With summer coming to an end, what better way to spend it than outside in this great cool front weather that rolled in. We spent the weekend fishing, washing cars, swimming, taking a ride in the paddleboat on the pond, and checking out the lack of water out at the Riverhouse.  It seems no matter where we went or what we did there was water involved, which resulted in some happy wet children, lol.  We headed out to the river first to pick up the paddleboat from the Riverhouse and get some pictures of how low the water is.  The first couple of photos posted below are from an area that used to have rapids running through it, but as you can see rocks are all that can be seen now :(  We loaded up the boat and let the kids crawl around on the four wheelers and tractors then headed back home. Later that day daddy washed his truck.  Water + dirt = MUD, which then equals Austin front and center with this "black boots" as he calls them.  This kid could stomp in mud ALL day!  Problem was he kept tracking it up onto the driveway, so daddy kept patiently washing his boots off.  As with most 2 year olds, it became a game to him, lol.  Onto our next event which was the paddleboat.  Daddy needed to fix some piece of the pond equipment (I won't even try to pronounce or spell the word) that sits in the bottom of the pond, and he thought the paddleboat might be a better way to get to it rather than swimming out there...smart daddy :)  He piled all the kids into the paddleboat, along with cousin Xavi and they all went for a little ride.  The pond was so pretty and the weather was so nice, I had to snap a few of the scenery.  And as usual, we fished until the sun went down.  Little Austin follows his Uncle Mike around like nobody's business, it cracks me up.  That's his fishing buddy.  Lastly, backtracking to last weekend, we had our old neighbors The Miranda's come out for dinner with their little boys.  I was SOOOO excited to see them!! Seriously, these are some of my favorite people in the world, so it was awesome to hang out and let all the kids play.  Hope you enjoy the photos!