The rest of the story...

So I should probably sum up the rest of my vaca week before I get too far behind here. Let's see, Monday night Lilly started puking and was sick most of the night and next morning. So Tuesday was pretty much a day of sleep and taking care of her. (Thanks to Tiff for helping clean up (I will spare you the details), and pre-occupying Lucas. Wednesday she was feeling a little better and we got to play outside and enjoy the pool and weather again. We also did a photo shoot of the girls, but I will post that later. Wednesday evening we headed over to Tim's parents house to start our "lake" part of the vacation. We could see the lake from the house but that is about as far as we got. Lucas started running a high fever that night which didn't go away until Saturday. Lilly got sick again on Thursday morning so basically I spent Thursday watching like 6 kids movies and vedging out on the couch with two sleepy sick children sipping pedalite. I do have to say though that having nothing to do but take care of sick children instead of trying to accomplish 6 other things is way less stressful.

Anyway, Tim showed up Thursday evening and by Friday everyone was a little more up for some beach adventures. The Hess tradition at the lake is always great...

good food. (my first twinkie cake...yummm!)and great family. (5 of the 7 brothers and kids/grandkids)
Lucas had a good time with cousin Andy steering down the hill.

Uncle Ben and his favorite niece.

And then Friday night Lucas was still awake when it was time to leave for fireworks (you have to boat to the other lake), so we decided to take him along. He lasted about 1/2 way through. It was cute though not hearing oohs and ahhs but "A Green one...A Rainbow one!"

All in all (even with the lazy sick days) we had a great week. I think it took the kids 1/2 of this week just to catch up. Hope everyone else enjoyed their holiday as well as we did.