There are so many reasons why I love this picture. I am going to tell you all of them.
(This is going to work better if you click your mouse to see a bigger version of this picture. Just saying, we are eeny weeny)
First of all, let's take a look at each person in this picture. I'm going from left to right here.
1. I was caught trying to smile, but laughing instead, thus giving me an awkward open-mouth-laugh-smile.
2. Grandma is not looking at the camera, and in fact is not even trying.
3. Aly is being a diva.
4. Well, Jessica looks pretty cute.
5. Amy's face...well just look at it. Funniest face in the whole picture.
6. Grandpa is looking very annoyed and probably just wants to eat his cake and drink his beer at this point.
7. Tyler's face is just a step below Amy's.
8. Let's roll these three into one: Mark is trying to hold two babies, one crying, one pulling on his cool sunglasses strap, if you notice the knee is being integrated to keep from dropping David (looks like he is likely slipping right out of unc's arms), and Auntie's hand is engaged in an effort to help baby out somehow.
9. The inconspicuous arm down in the right corner is video taping all the hilarity.
Okay. I can move on to other reasons I love this picture now.
For one thing, we are celebrating the G-rent's 60th anniversary. How beautiful is that?
There are also four generations represented in this picture (granted, only limbs of the second are visible). This I also find incredibly beautiful.
And lastly, this is the lake. Or "Grandma's Lake," as we always called it when I was little. Every summer I've been alive, I've traveled up to beautiful Washington state to spend a week or so with my family. Uno, rope swings, swimming to the dead head (but only with a life jacket), milkshakes and fries at the Ranchette, paddling around in rubber rafts, eating each meal on the deck, watering Grandma's flowers, taking walks to the end of the road, sleeping three in a row in the back room that is really just a nook, boat rides around the lake, sunset swims, driving "into town," Grandpa's puns and Grandpa's belches and Grandpa's cursing, fires in the old stove on rainy days, drinking hot chocolate every morning, the smell of Grandpa's shop, picking (and eating) raspberries all day, raspberry jam, raspberries on cereal and ice cream and everything, playing with the old toys from the closet, walking so slowly everywhere on the gravel because it's too hard to put your shoes on, sitting in the sun room, setting of fireworks from the dock, watching fireworks shoot off all around the lake and reflect off of the water, not being able to sleep because there are spiders everywhere and/or you have too many mosquito bites, getting to hang out with my cool older cousins (and more recently, with their children)...
And I wish that I could go on forever and ever because each summer spent at the lake, surrounded by my family, have been some of the most precious memories I've created. How blessed I am to have extended relatives that are so close and so special to me.
What an honor it would be to spend every summer at the lake...and not just say it was something I used to do.
First of all, let's take a look at each person in this picture. I'm going from left to right here.
1. I was caught trying to smile, but laughing instead, thus giving me an awkward open-mouth-laugh-smile.
2. Grandma is not looking at the camera, and in fact is not even trying.
3. Aly is being a diva.
4. Well, Jessica looks pretty cute.
5. Amy's face...well just look at it. Funniest face in the whole picture.
6. Grandpa is looking very annoyed and probably just wants to eat his cake and drink his beer at this point.
7. Tyler's face is just a step below Amy's.
8. Let's roll these three into one: Mark is trying to hold two babies, one crying, one pulling on his cool sunglasses strap, if you notice the knee is being integrated to keep from dropping David (looks like he is likely slipping right out of unc's arms), and Auntie's hand is engaged in an effort to help baby out somehow.
9. The inconspicuous arm down in the right corner is video taping all the hilarity.
Okay. I can move on to other reasons I love this picture now.
For one thing, we are celebrating the G-rent's 60th anniversary. How beautiful is that?
There are also four generations represented in this picture (granted, only limbs of the second are visible). This I also find incredibly beautiful.
And lastly, this is the lake. Or "Grandma's Lake," as we always called it when I was little. Every summer I've been alive, I've traveled up to beautiful Washington state to spend a week or so with my family. Uno, rope swings, swimming to the dead head (but only with a life jacket), milkshakes and fries at the Ranchette, paddling around in rubber rafts, eating each meal on the deck, watering Grandma's flowers, taking walks to the end of the road, sleeping three in a row in the back room that is really just a nook, boat rides around the lake, sunset swims, driving "into town," Grandpa's puns and Grandpa's belches and Grandpa's cursing, fires in the old stove on rainy days, drinking hot chocolate every morning, the smell of Grandpa's shop, picking (and eating) raspberries all day, raspberry jam, raspberries on cereal and ice cream and everything, playing with the old toys from the closet, walking so slowly everywhere on the gravel because it's too hard to put your shoes on, sitting in the sun room, setting of fireworks from the dock, watching fireworks shoot off all around the lake and reflect off of the water, not being able to sleep because there are spiders everywhere and/or you have too many mosquito bites, getting to hang out with my cool older cousins (and more recently, with their children)...
And I wish that I could go on forever and ever because each summer spent at the lake, surrounded by my family, have been some of the most precious memories I've created. How blessed I am to have extended relatives that are so close and so special to me.
What an honor it would be to spend every summer at the lake...and not just say it was something I used to do.
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