The Lunsford Family: Summer Travel & various lake adventures

Several of our friends on Frankie and Lauren's boat

And the rest of the group on Casey and Amanda's boat

Camden loving the water!

Swimming with Cooper

Trey and Julie chatting it up

Julie, Amanda, Holly and Laura

Cruising on the water!

The kiddos Jackson (Jack & Abby's son), Ellie (Casey and Amanda's youngest) and in the background little Avery (frankie and Lauren's daughter)

Enjoying the sun (and adult beverages)

Stephen and Josh in their "duck butt floats" :)

Back to traveleling, we have made two more trips back to the Lunsford Lake house. We went with our friends Carl and Rachel and their 8 week old baby Abigail along with James and Joan to the lake the weekend bf July 4th. It was HOT that weekend and we decided not to risk it with taking the baby on the boat and Joan agreed to watch baby Abigail while we played in the water. It was great time we even ran into some other friends of ours Casey and Amanda Garrett. We enjoyed spending time with our friends cooking breakfast and even grilling on the boat. It was too fun!

Next, we layed low for a few weeks and just worked and prepared for our next trip to Fairhope, AL for the MS Malt Beverage Association meeting. Trey, his boss Brian and his family as well as James and Joan were all representing Olive Branch. This was a group of different people and their families from across the state from both Budweiser and Miller/Coors that had come together to discuss the business and legislation, etc.

The boys and I explored the resorts bicycle rentals, beach and pool. Joan and I went shopping downtown in their shops one day. We had a ladies "bloody mary bingo" where all the wives went to play bingo and had a ball vying for prizes such as cash, coach purses, gifts and even trips! It was great! Joan had hired a babysitter from a local service to watch the boys so we could both participate. There was a reception each night with heavy appetizers and drinks. So I'm sure I gained a few pounds with all the wonderful food we had!

Playing on the beach at the resort in Fairhope, AL

Brooks playing in the hotel. "have your people call my people!"

Some of the walking/biking trails around the resort

The beach at the resort

Ready for a (short) bikeride!

Brooksie made a little girlfriend on the beach :) They had a fight over this wagon

Brooks finally won :)

(pictures are a little out of order)

We came home for a day and a half, Trey & I worked both days and then we packed up for our big friends lake trip to the Savannah. We had a total of 6 couples, and 5 children piled in the house! We had two boats so Trey and I didn't have to worry with manning a boat! There was a pontoon boat and a faster ski boat so we had the best of both worlds! We had a ball eating, drinking, playing cornhole, telling tall tales, and just enjoying our great friends! It was great, we played on the both Saturday and Sunday and everyone had a blast and more importantly no one was injured (except maybe a couple of rough hangovers and a possible eardrum rupture of our friend Josh who fell in the water wakeboarding). I cannot wait to make this an annual tradition. We sat around and talked about how we have been friends with this group some of which I have known since elementary school that we have been friends longer than we havent been friends! I cherish this group and I know we all have each other's back and if we ever needed anything everyone would chip in to help the others out. As for now, we dont have any other plans this month and the next big trip will be late August with my dad's whole family which will be so fun I cannot wait!!