{"id":1796,"date":"2011-07-24T18:32:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T22:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2011-07-24T18:32:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T22:32:27","slug":"for-the-grands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1796","title":{"rendered":"for the grands"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realize the blog has been full to the brim with lake pictures lately. So, this one is for the grand parents, who truly want to see more of them! Sorry to the rest of you :)<\/p>\n

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Marley loves the new skis<\/p>\n

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Anna Grace and Marley strap into the knee boards. There are no pictures to prove it, but I actually knee boarded for the first time on Friday. Got up on my second try. It’s harder than it looks! <\/p>\n

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Samara…she also did some skiing, but I somehow deleted them all. Makes me a rotten aunt, don’t you think?? <\/p>\n

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So, I’ll post two of her on the knee board. She’s making it over the wake here. She had a massive fall off the tube on Friday and pulled a muscle in her leg. Lake fun is dangerous. <\/p>\n

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She also joined Lainey in kneeboarding. This is the first time Lainey has held onto the rope, rather than just the sides of the board. I didn’t see it, but she had a scary moment when she fell and the board flipped over with her legs still strapped in. Randy said he swam like lightning to her, but she freed herself before he got to her. Kinda glad I didn’t witness it. <\/p>\n

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Micah, getting some serious air on the board. He tried skiing too, but couldn’t quite make it all the way up. <\/p>\n

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This is the closest he got. Not bad.<\/p>\n

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Josiah, the youngest of Randy’s brother’s family. <\/p>\n

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Sister-in-law, Dee Dee. She loved the kneeboard, said she could’ve done it all day. She was good, too. She rode with me when I tried, and was very encouraging as I struggled that first time! <\/p>\n

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All of these pictures are from Saturday. We went out on Friday too, but didn’t have the camera. It was that day that Ethan, Gabe, and Payton rode the tube together. Randy likes to give tube riders a good time (eh), and all three fell off at the same time. Ethan’s eye was cut, did alot of swelling, and is now a nice purple color across the whole lid. <\/p>\n

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Gabe. He loved trying everything and going BIG when he did.<\/p>\n

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Kneeboarding can be done in twos, which helps a lot when you’ve got 11 kids that wanna do things!<\/p>\n

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Ethan and Micah<\/p>\n

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We’re getting a lot of use out of our skis this year, since the kids got a new pair for their birthday. We even pulled out the adult skis. <\/p>\n

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Yes, that’s Randy doing something OTHER than driving the boat. I’m not the best boat driver (he’s gonna teach me), so having Tony here gave him a chance to ski. It had been years, but he got right up. <\/p>\n

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Tony also took a turn. <\/p>\n

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Of course, Ethan had to show everyone how it’s done on the wakeboard. <\/p>\n

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And, how to fall gracefully. <\/p>\n

I don’t have shots of Abbey – I wasn’t on the boat when she was, and the weather was getting really windy – making it hard to take pictures. I’m told she landed some really good jumps on the kneeboard, and has the sore muscles to prove it. Dylan rode the kneeboard on Friday (again, a no-picture day), and did a lot of swimming on Saturday. He just asked Randy a second ago if we could “go boating”. Most of us are just about boated-out this weekend! <\/p>\n

But, we had a wonderful time, no serious injuries, and no bad sunburns. Success. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I realize the blog has been full to the brim with lake pictures lately. So, this one is for the grand parents, who truly want to see more of them! Sorry to the rest of you :) Marley loves the new skis Anna Grace and Marley strap into the knee boards. There are no pictures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}