10 Years

It is hard to believe that in May it will have been 10 years since I graduated from William and Mary. I am hoping I can make it to Homecoming in October but for now we had a mini William and Mary reunion over the weekend at the lake. Our friends, Holly and Nathan and their daughter Abby, came from Fort Leavenworth. Tara, Hadley's godmother, flew in from Virginia and came with Holly and Nathan. We were all very excited to meet Abby who is only 2 1/2 weeks older than Hadley.

We set off Friday morning and had an easy car ride until we were about 30 minutes from the lake. Then Hadley started to fuss so Jim started to drive a little faster. Big Mistake. Apparently Madeleine and going 70 on twisty country roads do not mix. Let's just say the car didn't smell so great for the last 30 minutes of the drive. Everyone else arrived later Friday night... shortly after that Jim and Nathan headed down to the dock for some fishing (or maybe beer drinking). The girls stayed up talking until Hadley finally fell asleep which was about 12:30.

Saturday morning started off with some more fishing for the guys... I had a feeling before we went on this trip the guys were going to do a lot of fishing and the girls were going to do a lot of caring for the baby girls up at the house. I think Madeleine was surprised to wake up Saturday morning and see that there were now two dogs and two babies at the house. She made fast friends with Tara and was her buddy all weekend. Saturday was a beautiful day so after Madeleine's nap we headed to the state park. With Madeleine in the backpack and Hadley and Abby in chest packs we went for a nice hike around the lake. We grilled some yummy kabobs for dinner and then the boys went fishing again. This time Madeleine went along in the backpack. I usually get bored after 10 minutes of watching Jim fish but Madeleine seemed to enjoy it. She is going to be fishing on her own soon after receiving her first fishing pole from Holly and Nathan. Saturday night after some arm twisting we sat down for a game of Apples to Apples. Nathan who did not want to play won both rounds. You would have thought that it was Nathan and Jim that spent four years together in college as they seemed to be on the same exact wave length for everything... or maybe they just share the same guy humor.

In typical Missouri weather, Sunday was freezing! Holly, Tara and I headed to the outlets for some quick shopping while Jim and Nathan held down the fort. I think they were hoping we would take all the kids but we only took Hadley so they each only had responsibility for one. We all said good-bye in the afternoon. It was a great weekend and fun to catch up with everyone.

Here are some pictures from the weekend.