The last weekend in June, we ventured East to Lake McConaughy in Nebraska, this was a first for me and had been more than a decade for Doug, again the weather was perfect...hot, which is exactly what you want when you are at the lake. Then entire lake is surrounded by fine white sand, and I have to say that camping almost completely bare footed was pretty awesome. Our friend Jeff Bundy and his girl friend Danielle joined us, it was a great time.
Swimming off the boat to escape the heat, this was Caleb's first time swimming on his own in the deep part of a lake, we were all pretty excited about this milestone
Again we had rising water in an already record breaking lake levels, so there were lots of fun things to jump off of in the shallow water near our campsite
Cannonball coming
A very cool thunderhead that missed us luckily, but was fun to look at as the sun was setting
Our campsite out on a penninsula, lots of sand, some shade trees and mostly surrounded by water, what more could you ask for?
A casualty of the rising water, several protected birds had laid eggs in a sectioned off area, only to be consumed by the lake
Caleb's toad capture of the evening
Caleb showing off all his hard work
The release of the toads, I am sure they were relieved that their future was not so bleak after all
Another view of our campsite from our beach
I came into the living room one day to find them peacefully sitting next to eachother watching cartoons, which is so much cuter than picking at eachother
Caleb giving his princess sister a pony ride
Dylan, Caleb, Rachel and Maia at our pretend 4th of July celebration
corraling the wild animals
4th of July up at Horsetooth, we had bad weather so opted for some hiking instead of water/beach play
Rachel bringing up the rear with Grandpa Jimbo
A view from the trail down below of Horsetooth Reservoir and our campsite in the cove below
A big rock rest break for Caleb, Taylor, Rachel, Doug, Carmen and Ty
Tiny legs are tired after 4 miles
Even nastier weather prevailed in the evening, Ty and Jim holding down the insta shades and everything in site as a massive 4 hour thunderstorm struck overhead
A brief lull in the rain brings out the geese on the lake, notice the trees are in the water here too, there is a trend of too much water everywhere this summer
The sun peeking through the clouds in between thunderheads, these storms were so persistant that we ended up missing all the firework/boat parade festivities and it didn't really feel like the holiday ever happened
playing by a decorative stream at Brett's wedding
A mostly cooperative photo
family photo with the sun setting behind us
Just pulled into camp, it was really hot and the kids wanted to go for a swim, notice the trees are all in the water, by the time we left the suburban (a little portion of the bumper is on the far right) would have been parked in the high water!
Rachel having a great time in the water and throwing mud
