Labor Day Weekend!...part one

Allen, Noah, and I were so blessed to be able to get away for a few days and spend some family time in a cabin near Ellijay, GA. The cabin belongs to some friends of ours and they let us come up a few days early by ourselves.

We drove up on Wednesday and took advantage of the nice weather and beautiful outdoors. Noah liked cuddling with Allen but couldn't sit still for very long.

Noah decided to play some soccer...

So I played with him so the ball wouldn't roll down the hill...

Noah is very good. I guess the soccer lessons are paying off...

hehe, this is what happens when I leave the camera with Allen...

Noah built a mini city with his cars and tracks in the living room before dinner.

Thursday we took the Wave Runner out and we all rode it around Carter's lake. Noah LOVED it and wanted to go "super fast" the whole time. Allen accidently tipped us over once and Noah thought that was the best part. I am so thankful that Noah loves an adventure and we don't have to encourage (or push) him to try new things...in fact I am usually tlling him to be more careful.

Allen did a great job backing it into the lake too!

On Friday we went back out the wave runner for a few hours and then came back to the cabin to wait for Paul to get there and take us out on his boat.

Noah was very excited for Paul to get there...

As you can see by his face, Noah LOVED the boat!

Allen and Noah drove the boat while Paul was on the wake board. It was so much fun watching Noah. He really was having a blast with everything we did.

Noah and I on the back of the boat watching Allen wake board...

Here's Allen getting ready to wake board. He was new to it and did a great job!

He got up after a few bumpy starts....

And then was down again! Great Job Allen!

Noah liked jumping off the boat into the lake and swimming around. Paul played catch with Noah in the lake.

This is what happened to Noah's hair when we stopped the boat. We were nt moving at all in this picture. Personally i think he looks like Wolverine!

Check that out...again, we were totally stopped in this picture...

Allen and Paul braved the rope swing. I have a video that I will try to load later.

Noah and I went tubing and I have never seen Noah have so much fun. We were going so fast I almost fell out twice. Noah loved the bumps and Paul was making HUGE waves for us to go over. It really was so much fun!

Noah talked about it all weekend. While we were tubing, he kept looking up at me saying "Mom, this is so very cool".

Then Paul let Noah drive the boat and Noah was in Heaven!

Allen and Noah enjoying the day on the boat!

Later Friday night the rest of the crew came up...Betsy (Paul's wife), Sarah and Michael (Paul and Betsy's kids), Luisa (Michaels's girlriend), Brad (Sarah's friend),and Josh and Allison. Oh yeah, and the dogs! Noah really liked Dixie (pictured below) because Dixie would chase Noah around the house and lick him.

Allen helped make the salad for dinner one night...

And a big thanks to Josh to let Noah eat dinner while sitting on him. Josh helped Noah finish dinner by pretending the mac n cheese was filled with animals (or something like that) but it worked cause Noah ate the whole thing. I didn't get a lot of pictures of this day but it was packed with water activities...we were all exhausted...and SORE!!

Luisa and Allen making some goodies...

Noah and Sarah before Church.

It was so much fun and Allen, Noah, and I are truly blessed for such great friends.