This year we went on a "Hague" vacation. Dad, Nick, Mandy, Grady, Chase, "Uncle" Scott all came on vacation with us. We rented a house on Norris Lake in Eastern Tennessee. The house was awesome and this is the view from our balcony.
The water was really clear and warm, it could not have been more perfect!
Dad rented a pontoon boat for the whole week and the daily routine was to wake up, eat breakfast, pack the cooler for a long day on the water. Samantha loved riding on the boat and swimming in the water.
We bought her this Dora life jacket to bring with us since there were never a place to swim where you could touch the bottom. Some parts of the lake are over 250 feet deep!
This picture was totally staged. Samantha went on the tube with me once and when I fell off she was terrified. She never wanted to ride the tube again unless it was just being used as a float while everyone was swimming.
She did like playing on the tube with Grady, but she would freak out if she thought the boat was going to start moving with them down in the tube! Grady on the other hand LOVED the tube. I am convinced he would have spent the whole week in the tube had he been allowed. He even loved being thrown out of the tube too! It was so cute seeing him get more and more confident riding the tube as the week went on.
Jeff on the tube!
Me on the tube! I am like Grady and could have spent the whole week on the tube!
Me being a show off and standing up in the middle of the tube!
Captain Dad!
"Uncle" Scott! Samantha thinks that b/c Scott is Grady and Chase's uncle, he is her uncle too.
Mandy (+baby) and Grady on the pontoon boat.
Daddy and his sun-loving girl!
Mommy and her shade-loving girl!
She is such a water baby!
One day we rented a speed boat to supplement the pontoon. We got a second tube and what a difference some additional speed made! When you flew off the tube on the speed boat there was some pain involved! One time I rolled at least 8 times on top of the water before I went in! Jeff, Scott and I all tried water skiing but only Scott made it up (for 3 seconds) then we all gave up!
Jeff said, "You all are going to be amazed when I am awesome at this." That was before he tried 5 times to get up and couldn't. Nick and I had a good laugh out of that.
Natalie likes to watch Baby Einstein on the iPad. So I had her laying down watching it when the other kids came over and somehow Baby Einstein turned into Toy Story and Natalie got a bit edged out.
But it was cute that this was something that all 4 kids liked to do considering they vary in age by 4 years.
Aye Aye Captain!
One day we rented a jet ski and it was a lot of fun too. We could get it up to 54 miles an hour and took full advantage of that speed. Unlike the last time Jeff and I rented jet ski's on the Gulf of Mexico, this smooth lake water was a ton of fun.
Nick posing on the jet ski.
When Grady had enough of Nick riding on the tube with him, he kicked him off and I picked him up on the jet ski.
Natalie was really good on vacation and just went with the flow. She slept a lot on the boat and was in good mood most of the time.
Daddy and his surfer girl, or so her bathing suit says :)
Sporting her "sunnies"!
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