A few months before Memorial Day, Kevin's friend Scott Kimball reached out asking if him and his two oldest boys could come visit for the weekend. We hadn't seen the boys for years, so it seemed like a fun opportunity to get our families together. They arrived on Friday morning, but since Kevin had to work, we met up at Six Flags. It was our first official day of summer vacation but it was ridiculously hot and none of the water rides were open!! I swore that it might be the only time we went all summer because it was pretty miserable. I don't know how people go in July or August!
We had pizza that night and hung out playing games and guitars :)
We went to the lake on Saturday morning and spent the majority of the day there. Paxton (left) is 13 and Jagger (right) is 15. The kids all got along pretty well, but Paxton was difficult at times. He didn't listen well to Scott and became upset pretty easily, but overall the kids had fun together.
Veggie Straw fangs...the kids ate an entire Costco-sized bag in two days, so there's that!
Colby continues to impress me with his ability to try new things despite multiple face plants in the water. The morning was super overcast, but thankfully the sun came out after lunch!
Brooke had her longest surf ride that day, so I teased her that she was just showing off for the boys.
She was giddy as she climbed into the boat, asking me if I saw her! Apparently she wasn't paying attention to my obnoxious cheers as I recorded the whole thing, haha.
Colby also had his longest ride, which he quickly pointed out was "longer than Brooke's." Why does everything have to be a competition?? (And we were all kinda chuckling about his arms, but his balance was great, so clearly that was working for him.)
Scott is one of the only friends Kevin really keeps in contact with, so I appreciate that he makes the effort to call Kevin and check-in. They met and became close in high school and have been friends ever since.
They were on a mission to get some air on the wakeboard and one of the kids caught a pretty good picture of Kevin's best attempt.
I'm pretty sure Jagger was actually asleep, but Colby was just resting as we got back to the slip.
Saturday night turned into an epic Nerf gun battle, which was both really loud and a little chaotic!
We headed back out to the lake on Monday...
We figured we still had a decent amount of gas, but since it was a holiday weekend, we decided to gas up before getting started for the day. We were DYING when it just kept pumping more and more gas. The tank is supposedly 50 gallons and we pumped 50.358 galloons into the boat, which means that we were almost BONE DRY. That could've been a very bad situation, so I am so grateful that we decided to fill up before heading out.
The water was "Sunday Smooth" for hours, which honestly felt like a gift!! We were all a little sunburned from Saturday, so Kevin busted out all the biggest hats he could find, including the sombrero he lent Scott.
We spent the afternoon jumping off the boat, holding dive competitions, board riding, eating snacks, floating, and swimming after the random tennis ball that Colby brought :)
Thanks for a fun weekend, Kimballs!