A Whole New Experience.....

Before I go into it, I want to thank Chuck and everyone else who planned this amazing weekend. I thought every minute of it was a blast and Sunday afternoon came way to quickly. Hopefully, this can become a yearly event!

So Chuck, Hannah, Rudy and I got in the car about 11am on Friday morning and headed to a new place to board Rudy for the weekend. I still had no clue where we were going but as soon as we were done dropping Rudy off I saw a sign that said South Bend and I kind of figured we were heading to Culver Cove!

A little after 1 we pulled up to this awesome house right on Lake Maxinkuckee!

Hannah, Chuck and I hopped out of the car to check the place out. I had known for a week that Mike, Jen and their kids were coming and earlier in the day I had found out that The Lee's were also joining us but this house had 6 bedrooms so I knew I had a few more surprises coming my way!! The house was perfect, lots of space for the kids to run around and lots of space for the adults to just relax and catch up.

Shortly after we arrived, got our things unloaded and Hannah and I finished running around the house The Pothasts showed up, then the Lee's came strolling in, as we were finishing up putting on our bathing suits to go jump off the dock The Sham's strolled in!! It was great, I had never met Keegan before so it was awesome to see them. After some fun in the water we headed back up to the house and we found Aunt Stephanie and Uncle Dave!! Awesome surprise.

So 10 adults and 8 kids all in one house for a fun filled weekend of floating, swimming, eating, sleeping, drinking and playing, it was AMAZING!!!

Friday night after everyone arrived we ordered pizza and hung out. After all the kids went to bed there was some serious card playing going on then of course a late night swim in the lake!

Saturday morning probably came a bit to quickly for some people but with 8 kids in the house sleeping in was not an option! So, we got up, Mike made some breakfast, it was cloudy but no rain so we got our suits on and headed to the beach!!

I think Hannah was in a hurry!!

All the kiddos loved the sand and floating in the water, the guys played football, it was nice and relaxing. After a few hours at the beach it was getting close to lunch time and nap time so we headed home. Chuck grilled hot dogs, we had left over pizza, the smaller kids (and some of the adults) took naps, the rest of us headed out to the lake!

Saturday evening Sham made an amazing rib dinner on the grill, we played some corn hole, colored with side walk chalk and played with bubbles!! Really couldn't ask for a better day!

Sunday, we didn't have to be out of the house until 2, we all headed back to the beach for a few more hours of fun!

Then we hit up this place....

I feel so lucky to have a group of friends like this!! With everyone having such busy schedules it gets harder and harder to get together but when we do it is almost like no time has passed. Hopefully we can keep this up so it will be the same way with all the kids!!

We are missing 2 of the kiddos in these pictures, but do you know how hard it is to take a group picture of kids ranging in ages from 1 to 9?!?! Pretty cute bunch!