(Logan and Amelia opening gifts)
On Saturday morning, after everyone struggled to open their eyes, we got the whole gang down to one of the beaches. All the kids had a blast. The girls wanted to swim to the "floating island" but Mike didn't get in the water and I couldn't (doctor doesn't want me in lake or ocean water). So they swam out a little bit to where they could still hear us. :-)
Delilah drying off for snack time.
After swimming and before heading back to the cabin, we dragged the Newsoms to see our property. The girls ran around, getting excited that we could come up a lot, a lot, a lot!
Spencer, their oldest son, was so awesome with the girls. They adore him and wanted to always see what he was doing. In this pic, Delilah is amorously sitting next to him watching Beauty and the Beast and watching him play Gameboy.
After dinner, we had some down time to kill before the firework show on Saturday night so we headed out with all the kids on a nice hike. Brief story from earlier in the day... all the girls were napping so Laura and I stayed home with them. Mike and Steve took the two boys on a hike going through neighborhood but then through a nature hike area (where no houses were in sight). The path was narrow and about half way through, they heard a growl. They looked around but didn't see anything so they just keep the boys between them and walked quickly out while making lots of noise. Needless to say, we didn't go down that path on our nightly walk! :-)
The girls finally got to stay awake late enough to see fireworks. They LOVED them!! They can't wait to do them on Wednesday but they hope no one gets burned. The pic is Daddy and Mikayla with Delilah in her chair, watching the fireworks over the lake.
The next day, the kids spot something off the balcony of the cabin. Was it a bear? Mountain lion?
No. It was just a pregnant deer!
Earlier in the weekend, we took the kids fishing. The girls had their own fishing poles and I am proud to say that Mikayla has the casting thing down. Lilah would sometimes get it but she had more fun reeling in the line then casting it. We still didn't put hooks on their fishing poles (that might hurt someone) but they sure had fun practicing casting and dropping their lines in.
On Sunday, we headed to the Pine Mountain Lake stables for Sunday Funday. They had hayrides, a petting zoo, races, pie eating contest, and watermelon! Here, Daddy is giving them a pony ride since there were none of those.
Part of the petting zoo, the girls had to learn not to put their fingers in the kennel area.
Mikayla loving her watermelon!
After a long weekend, the kids relaxed on the couch watching Shrek while Steve and Laura made everyone some homemade vanilla ice cream with cookie dough. MMM!!
(Logan and Delilah watching Shrek)
We had a complete blast and can't wait to go again. The people up there are so friendly - everyone waves and are so nice... even on a holiday weekend where there are more tourists there than usual. Mikayla did not want come home. She said "I want to stay in the mountains". I told her we have to go home but we will come back. She still wasn't happy with that but then I told her that Neitra and Terris is coming over on 4th of July to do fireworks. She changed her mind and was okay to come home but said after Neitra and Terris leaves, we are going back to the mountain. We feel so blessed to be able to make some wonderful memories, that we hope will continue for many many many years!! 
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