Lake of the Ozarks 2009

Last weekend the Wood Family took a trip down to the Ozarks to stay with some of Mike and Geri's family friends. I should have known that when they said we'd be staying in the "guesthouse", it'd be pretty great. Needless to say, I'm hoping this becomes an annual tradition. We had the best time, and I was sober! Who knew!!!

This is the view of their dock from the deck- it felt more like a resort than a lakehouse.

On the far side of the picture is a built in, gas fire pit. Awesome!

Ryan, Chris and Geri on the deck.
Cole, by brother-in-law, who can sleep anywhere...
Blue Steel.
Ignore me- isn't she beautiful???
There was a whole area by their dock that was all sand- she LOVED it...

Um, yeah. They don't have one lake house, they have two. The one on the right is the "main" house and the one on the left is the guest house where we stayed. Amazing.

God help me if she ever takes a Chi to those curls...
We put a lifejacket on her with her swimmies and it was perfect. She just swam around and loved it.

Ryan and Chris on the jetskis.

Cole, Sarah, Chris and Emerson playing in the sand on Sunday morning.

Love that shot glass sitting on her tray...

Oh yeah, they also had a bar on the dock...

The weekend was a great one- on the way back we stopped in Sedalia and I got a Guberburger- yummy! (That's a hamburger with peanut butter on it for those of you who don't know... Don't knock it till you try it!!!) Hopefully next summer we'll get to do it again with a little Wood baby in tow!

I love my dog...

Well let me start by saying that everything is fine now and Phoebes is safe and sound and at home. But we had a scare, let me tell you. She was gone for a total of 24 hours and it was just AWFUL.
Monday night, we had let Phoebe outside around 8 and calling her to let her back in, she didn't come. We looked and looked but with no luck. Long story short there's an opening in our fence we thought was secure but I guess not. We went to bed around 12:30 after looking up and down our street and all through our backyard. Let me tell you, in 8 years I'd never gone to sleep at night not knowing where Phoebe was or that she was safe. It was awful. I woke up on Tuesday and my mom came over and we made these flyers and spent all day going door to dooor handing them out and taking them to businesses around town. I was crying at the UPS store where we made copies and the manager, who was helping me, teared up saying she had dogs too and gave me my copies for free. People were so helpful and nice to us.
Anyway, so that night I stood on the edge of my driveway and handed out the flyers to cars passing by while Ryan drove around the area and nailed the flyers to phone poles. Then a car drove by and as I was handing him a flyer he said, "you missing your dog?" Long story short, his wife has seen Phoebe the night before and had her. They live about a block away. Whew!

I'm a bad mom and didn't have her collar on her so I was just a sick mess. Luckly, she's home now and I have a new appreciation for my first baby. Go give your dog a hug, they mean more to you than you realize!!!

No pics but a funny story...

So on Sunday we took the Emerson and Will to Amber's parent's pool in Olathe to swim before dinner. (Ryan had 8 ears of corn by the way...) Anyway, we were hanging out in the baby pool and Will came over and said something about watching him cannon ball in the big pool. I look over and Ryan is rushing Emerson over to the grass- I didn't know what was going on. I get up and I see puke on the sidewalk- I guess she had swallowed a bunch of water and started to get sick in the water while I wasn't looking. Ryan had throw up all over him so we took Emerson into the bathroom to get cleaned up. She was totally fine and Ryan took her swimming in the big pool with Will and Jonathan. Meanwhile, I went to check out the baby pool and see rigatoni (Emerson's tuna helper lunch) floating in the pool. So I'm wading in the baby pool picking out the pasta with my hands- awesome. The lifeguard had to call in reinforcement and they had to add a bunch of chemicals to the pool and then close the baby pool down. Wow. All in a days work, eh? I just thought you all would enjoy the visual of me wading through the water fishing for pasta...