BBQ at the Lake

In August I will begin my new job with Sav-A-Life.  Very exciting!  They hosted a BBQ party this weekend for board members, staff, and family so we were invited.  I haven't even begun work there and we are already partying with them!  :-)  It was a blast!  It was a great time to casually meet everyone, their spouses, and their families.  What an awesome way to begin a new job - at the LAKE!!!

The barbecue was delicious and we got to play in the water all afternoon.  It was SWEET!  The lake house that we were at was amazing.  It was seriously a million dollar lake house.  It was unbelievable!  Here's a pic of the back porches leading down to the water:

Boat Party!!!

The boat that we hung out on all afternoon - SWEEEEET!

Both Misha and I decided to try wake-boarding for the first time.  The hardest part is getting up out of the water.  Once you have accomplished that, you're golden.  It's similar to snowboarding, but just in the water.  We definitely want to do it again!

Here's Misha about to dive in!

Wahoo!  He's up!

Here is a short video of me actually getting out of the water....then screaming and falling.  LOL!  

We need to practice our wake boarding!

We had such great fun playing at the lake house all day.  I would LOVE to someday have a place like that....well, at least a place on the water.  :-)

Blackberries

Remember those wild blackberries that Misha and I came across?  Well, we went back for more this past Saturday.  We picked a ton!!!!  I think it was like 5 quarts total.  The thing is, while we were picking berries in the middle of the woods....it starts raining.  Very lightly, then stops.  Great!  It cooled off some....then it begins POURING.  We are seriously standing there in the middle of the woods and are soaked to the bone.  It was getting a little scary b/c we had to SPRINT for cover because there were a couple of power lines/poles near us.  That combined with lightning is SCARY.  Anyway, we didn't get struck by lightning and it was kinda cute b/c we were soaking wet, but standing together hugging each other in the middle of the woods in the pouring down rain.  It was a moment.  :-) 

Here's all the blackberries we picked:

Can you tell we snuck a few blackberries?