What a Zoo!: Yankton Vacation

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Yankton Vacation

We went on our annual Yankton Vacation at the end of June this summer. The kids wait for this trip for the entire year! I guess it really shows that it doesn't take anything fancy to make our kids happy. Just hanging out as a family with the lake to play in. This year I had LIVE, LOVE, LAKE shirts made for all of us. It's not really a reunion since their are 3 separate families but it is such a fun group of people to spend a week with and make memories with.

We had beautiful weather that was nice and warm during the day but not so hot that it was miserable to be outside. We crazy rainy weather that we have had this year even held off for the week.

Grandma and Grandpa and the kids. We are missing AJ though.

Robb and John brought the boat and we all had a great time going out on the lake. Abby wasn't so sure about tubing or skiing yet this year but she liked jumping in. Thanks to John who put up with LOTS of kids in the boat and pulling a tube around for hours at a time. He is always a good sport.

Dad's boating buds. Caleb would have slept on the boat if we would have let him.

Headed out for some fun.

Caleb was so excited! He learned to water ski this year. He couldn't stay up for very long but he was starting to get the hang of it by the end of the week.

Bryce was so close to getting up but he didn't quite get it this trip.

John and Robb worked on wake surfing. This is fun to watch. They hang on to a very short rope behind the boat and when the wake is pushing them enough they let go and surf on the wake. No one has quite figured it out yet but they gave it a good try.

Andy had to break in the wakeboard we got him for his graduation.

Robb LOVES being out on the lake!

The kids all had a blast tubing. I don't know how they weren't sore after watching them bounce around and fly up in the air out there.

Emerson was a little older this year and not quite as much work to have at the lake. She wasn't sure about the water but she did enjoy the beach where she could get wet on her own terms and she loved playing with her animals in the sand just like Bryce used to do.

Not to sure about swimming,

Poor girl got sick after we had been there a couple of days. Susie noticed little white spots on her feet and then it became apparent that what I thought was fussiness from teething was actually hand foot and mouth disease. It had been going around her daycare but she had already had it once this year so I thought we were safe. Guess not. This time around she didn't get it as bad and only had a couple sore spots in the her mouth but her poor feet had blisters and she had a terrible diaper rash which is uncomfortable in 90 degree weather. We made the best of it but she spent the last couple days cuddling with me, Robb or Susie.

This was hilarious! All the kids were attempting to get on the paddle board at once. It was also pretty funny watching Andy attempt to get on the paddle board.

Just chillin.

Of course we couldn't forget the Go Karts! The kids had crazy goyod memory and remembered us telling them that they would probably be tall enough to drive by themselves this year. Thankfully we were right and the older kids could drive. Watch out here they come!

Watching Caleb drive makes me terrified for when he turns 16. He is on a mission to win and it doesn't matter who or what he takes out in the process.

Bryce had fun driving but he didn't quite have that scary level of intensity that Caleb had.

Watching Robb drive, I know where Caleb gets his competitive spirit. Well I guess that is not much of a surprise since I am not competitive at all!

Abby couldn't drive the big cars by herself but she tried the smaller slower track and although she did a good job she looked terrified the entire time.