Minnicks On Their Road To Ever After: A Lake, A Tent, A lot of food, Amazing Friends & a Ton of Fun was had on our Fourth!!

This year we celebrated July Fourth the way I have always pictured spending it in my head for years and years!

Out on a lake with great friends, cooking out each night and playing drinking games until we fell asleep under the stars.

It was perfect.

Speaking of sleeping [arrangements] it was sooo much better than I thought….. when you see this picture you may think “What! Ohh God no!”

When I saw it I thought “oehhhh, cuddle time!”, there was actually another bunk available next to it but that is sooo not fun! We like sharing :) haha but honestly the next night it was so gorgeous out ~~and I was too drunk/ verge of dizziness to quietly go to sleep in that small space~~ so we pitched the tent, took the bunk mattresses out the bunk beds and spent the remaining nights sleeping under the stars!

A slight unfortunate feature of falling asleep under the stars inevitably includes waking up in the sun!!! But this little missy was waiting for my hand to peak out of the tent each morning so it was all worth it!

That and the smell of the sweetest, most generous hostess in the world scrambling up a five star breakfast for us each morning!!

Mrs. Georgette.

Let’s just say we had PLENTY to eat, at all times!

First things first, Renee had Alex signed up to fix computer problems ASAP as Kailey chugged down her coffee (yes for real)!!

I swear this whole blog will not be about Kailey BUT I have to share this. I was sitting there telling her about the call I had just gotten from Andy and Rachel (our babysitters to Kailey) and they told me about how Tucker had gotten loose and ran out the door…

So I explained it alllll to Kailey, “Tucker is my doggie but he is at the baby sitters house this weekend ~~because he was too bad to come here~~ and he ran away, all the way down the road so he got a spanking, but Milly was inside being a good girl so she didn’t get a spanking”…. No worries I didn’t make Milly out to be a princess, I told her about Milly’s bad days when -Milly used to be her mama’s dog but she sucked at it so I took Milly from her,,,,,, Well Renee herd where that was going so she took Kailey away from me :)

Anyway, don’t you know Kailey remembered every word and told Renee the whole story about Tucker (whom she has never even met) running away and getting a spankin!!

Thanks TJ for providing mama a good story for Kay bug and sorry to Andy and Rachel that he gave ya’ll hell!!

So little did I know I didn’t even “need” this sweet thing to save me from cussing the heat out…. it was beautiful!!!

What a doll she is and if you weren’t dying to have a baby before a weekend with her you are now!! I found myself missing her every time she went away for a quick nap or when we would leave the beach to make food for everyone at the camp site.

Renee and Josh could not be more lucky!!!!

I must say Kailey has good taste…… she developed a slight crush on Alex this weekend and when we all hugged her bye Monday morning she stopped when it was Alex’s turn and started to fall asleep on his shoulder….

The crush definitely goes both ways…..

And Kailey’s mama sometimes can’t help herself with my Lou either…. she decided to give him a mud bath.

This is how is went…..

haha Lou knows better than to mess with that chicka!

Anyway, Here are a ~~ton~~ few of my favorites moments that I captured from our weekend….

Can I just say Alex wanted to bring a hammock so bad but we could not find his “jungle hammock” (from when he was a little boy), so we did without….. Wouldn’t you know when we got to our campsite the neighbors had TWO hammocks set up overlooking the water.

Poor Lou they just had to rub it in didn’t they.

Love bugs!!!

My most favorite hobby ever!!! I thought I could tube all day until tubing with the “Thompson Men”…. OOOWW!

(Can I just say Lou soooo made Tubing no fun, “Jen hold on, Jen this may hurt, Jen here comes a wave, Jen are you holding on?” I mean I may as well have taken KERN!) Love you both. :)

No worries Stephanie gave at least one of the Thomson boys pay back after peeing on Josh when they went tubing together!!

Take note: the girls did not get the rope tied up underneath the jet ski…. the boys did.

I thought this picture was a perfect way to explain what our weekend with our claimed piece of land looked like…

We were trouble……... and I’m not sure why they trusted us with the jet ski….. I guess because they had already broken it???

Lou was such a pro on the wakeboard, he had only ever tired it twice before with Andrew and ended up learning to “switch” it over the weekend!!

Thanks Andrew for “donating” it to Alex!!

I love this of Ney, although she’s not so much fond of it…

Kailey fishing with her paw paw….

Couldn’t you just squeeze her!!!

Lunch time!! Our entertainment besides Kay bug…. ( also you can choose Joe to be in this category is you wish as well) Haha ok, but seriously, I can’t help but laugh when I see this picture of Joe, either of them…..

Classic (literally, Mrs. Georgette and Mr. Eric found these glasses 30 years ago on this same beach and have kept them in their boat ever since….. who would have known they would come back in style……. Well Kinda Joe.)

“If those damn fish don’t quit biting me” -Georgette This is what Sunday, the actual 4th looked like at our campsite…

Boston Butts (my first experience) , greens, corn, potato salad biscuits and BANANA PUDDING!!

We were very festive with our drinks too: rum, pineapple and a splash of cranberry…..

who knew it would turn out red, white and blue ;)

This was the sunset on the fourth…. it took Stephanie and I many attempts each night and we finally perfected it our last night!

“Omg there it is RUNNNNNNNN before it goes down”

Somebody was getting sleepy…. until the fireworks started!!! Now that is a July Fourth.

I spotted these pretty little things on the way to Clark Hill Friday but it was too dark to stop, so I ~~bugged~~ reminded Alex all weekend that we needed to stop and check them out on our way home Monday…