Lake Eufaula

We are so busy in the summertime with youth stuff that we don't get to go to the lake very much at all. In fact, this was our first day to be there all summer. We got there around noon and spent the afternoon playing in the water! The girls had a lot of fun playing on "Buttercup" (the inflatable dog) in the little blow-up pool in the backyard. (The dog as as big as the pool, but they didn't care!) Then, we took a boat ride over to the beach. It was so hot outside that the lake water was almost too warm. The girls had fun blowing bubbles with Grandma Baldwin! I forgot Mackenzie's hat, so she wore an OU hat that Grandma Baldwin found. I told Brian to squint a little and look at her to imagine what a boy would look like! She's way too cute to be a boy!!! (But I have to say after looking at that picture of her in that hat, I want a boy more than ever! It's just too cute!) It was fun to spend time with Grandma and Grandpa Baldwin! Grandma helped Mackenzie make a hat, which she loved! I wrote her name on it, but she decorated the rest of it. I was totally impressed with her glitter painting skills...check out the ladybug she put on there! That's pretty good! Mackenzie has been going through this thing lately where she gets very sad when we have to leave. It doesn't matter where we are, if she has to say goodbye to someone, she is devastated. It is heartbreaking! It is especially hard for her to leave G-Ma and Grandma Baldwin. However, it only takes a few seconds for her to recuperate once we actually leave! She is a very sensitive little thing. Madison looked SO adorable in her little watermelon life jacket suit! I found this at a garage sale when Mackenzie was little, but she never got to wear it. I was so excited that it fit Madison! I could just eat her up, she's so cute!
"Hi, I'm Mackenzie!" Mackenzie doesn't know a stranger...she goes up to people all of the time (at the store, at church, everywhere) and says, "I'm Mackenzie!" People comment all the time about her outgoing personality. I really hope she stays that way!

She just couldn't quite get that leg up there...and she wasn't happy about it!

As if she weren't already chunky enough!

This baby is definitely not going to sink!

Headed to the water! Grandma and Grandpa have such a beautiful home at Lake Eufaula!

Grandma Baldwin is wonderful to the girls...she loves them very much! This is the "imagine what a boy would look like" picture!

Summer Sweetie! Just want to kiss those cheeks all the time!

Mackenzie is an artist...check out the ladybug she drew all by herself, with glitter paint!

Can this really be my baby girl? She is growing up WAY too fast!