Lake day with Ymkers!

 Friday the 29th Abby Ymker invited Emily Borah and I out to her family's lake house. Wow! What a treat we got out there! Emily and I had so much fun! I think we were both blown away by the beauty and fun of everything. Here are some pictures from our three days at the lake. :)

 Derek Ymker got both Emily and I standing on the wake board within the first few hours of getting to their house. We had quite a few wipe outs, but it was loads of fun! :D

 There she is! :D

 There's me! Although you can't really tell.. My form is really bad here... On Sunday I went wake boarding in the morning with the guys again. That's when I figured out how to stand correctly. It was loads of fun! :D

 A bunch of pretty, happy girls. :)

 Saturday morning Abby, Emily, Josiah, Brady and I all drove over to Ha Ha Tonka park to tour the area. It's a beautiful ruin where a huge house burned down. It's almost a castle! :)

 The sun setting over the lake. It was so pretty! :)

 We spent our evening relaxing on the porch over looking the lake. It was a wonderful time with many stories and lots of teasing back and forth. :)

 This is the front of Ymker's lake house. I thought it was the PERFECT kind of house on a lake. It was decorated so beautifully inside and the grounds were so well kept! To me it was like a mini vacation, only better in some ways because it was with some of my best friends! :D

 Tubing was a hit! Mr. Ymker had a lot of fun trying to get us to fall off too!

 Derek doing tricks on his Stand Up Jet Ski. :) Not gonna lie, he looked pretty amazing out there. I'm working to get my boating license right now so I can drive a Stand up on my own next time I'm out there. :)

 Mr. Ymker showing off his skill! :D What a cool dad! :D

 Derek showing off his jumping. You could tell it was a blast!

I love this guy! :D Abby, your dad is fantastic!

 We went on an evening boat right Saturday night. It was so relaxing and wonderful.

 Beautiful sunset :)

Sunday Emily and I did wake boarding again. Emily did really well and I could tell she had a blast!

 Derek... Yeah, he's pretty much a pro on everything water ;P

 I love this family! Kayla and I on a wave runner.

 Josiah and I tubing. Mr. Ymker gave us a rough ride because I told him to let us have it. He did... lol

 Brady and I tubing. :)

 When driving on the wave runners if the sun hit the water right there would be a rainbow on either side of the boat. It was so pretty I had to get a picture of it. :)

Wave runner buddies. :) We went out on the wave runner a lot together. It was loads of fun. Can't wait to do it again Josiah!

HUGE THANKS TO THE WHOLE YMKER FAMILY FOR HAVING ME OUT THERE!!!! :D It was such a wonderful blessing and so much fun! You all are a wonderful family and I had so much fun with each one of you. Thank you Mrs. Ymker for all the food you prepared for us. It was amazing! Thank you for letting us ride your boats and use your equipment. It is a memory I will never forget and I look forward to coming out again. :)

For everyone else who doesn't know, I'm going out to the lake this Wednesday with a bunch of friends.  It's going to be amazing!!! :) Thank you in advance to the Ymker family for having a bunch of people out again! Hopefully we don't wear you all out. I promise to help with dishes too. ;)

Oh deer..

Our friends, the Frisbees had a wild deer over at their house. This was back earlier this summer, but I haven't been able to post it until now. :) Their son Alex found this little guy out in the woods and brought him home with him. We girls got a text message later that day and raced over there to see him and take pictures. :)

His little eyes were still blue. That's a sign that they're only a day or so old. :) He was still having trouble learning to walk. :)

Look at how little! :D

Those legs are crazy!

My life long dream came true! I got to hold a wild faun! :)

Sarah loved the little guy!

After we left Alex took the little guy back to where he found the deer and put him back. A few hours later he was gone. :) What a wonderful day that was!

Washington D.C. part 2

We went into a butterfly house and enjoy taking pictures :)

The Rotonda in the Capital :) It was beautiful!

Grace and I were blown away by this picture... It's a painting!!!

I might not have seen the stairs if it weren't for that sign... ;P

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Riding on the Metro :D

We visited President Washington's house and property. It was beautiful! We loved how big some of the  trees were out there. :)

Anyway, there's our trip to Washington. I've gotten really behind in updating my blog. Life has been really busy since starting school. All is going well though. :) I'll try getting another update on here soon!

Until then!

Washington D.C. part 1!

Our wonderful Uncle Hank took Gracie and I last week on an incredible trip to Washington D.C. :) Here are some of the highlights of our trip! :D

The mountain are always beautiful to drive through :)

It was a two day trip, but we finally made it to D.C.! :D

The first night we got there they had a huge Memorial Day concert. It was very neat and the music was fantastic! Sadly, we had to leave early because they announced a huge storm was coming... What we got to see and hear though was still wonderful!

The Capital looked so pretty all lit up at night! :)

The next morning we all headed out to the Metro to go and visit a bunch of the Smithsonian museums.

Aww :) :P

The Washington Monument looks so close, but it's actually, I think, 1 to almost two miles away... It's crazy...

We saw a lot of really neat things in the Museum! :)

The beautiful Hope Diamond.

Earrings worn by Marie Antoinette, the diamonds were around as big as a quarter... :P I can't even imagine!

This was honestly almost as big as the hope diamond, it just wasn't blue... :)

We saw a bunch of incredible bronze and marble statues... They were all incredible to look at.

This was suppose to be Young John the Baptist.

A beautiful painting... There were so many incredible paintings there! If you click on the photo it will blow it up for you. Look at the tears on Mary's face. I couldn't believe how real and wet they looked.

My favorite painting. :) I can't remember who painted it or what it was suppose to be of, but I just loved the painting!

We went through this really cool tunnel. I had to get a picture. It felt like space or something..

Looking at all the BEAUTIFUL surroundings in every building... It was incredible!

Heading home on the metro again! There was one long day! :D I'll have more to follow hopefully soon, but things have been incredibly busy since getting home. Hopefully I can post more tomorrow. :)

Peace!