Jacksonville Texas

Jacksonville

Lake Jacksonville

We headed out for Jacksonville on Friday as soon as David got home from work, which was around 5, much later than we had wanted to leave. We got to Rockdale and the sky opened!! It was raining sideways, so we stopped and had some Mexican food and to kill some time. It turned out to be a great idea, it had pretty much stopped raining by the time we left and we made it the rest of the way in no time, getting in around 10. We visited some, then hit the sack to rest up for the next day at the lake.

Saturday we got up, went to Aunt Kathy's, had lunch while we waited for Chris to get off work, then headed for the lake. Chris had so much patience and taught Riley how to wake board. Riley did pretty good, he probably could have done it no problem with a smaller kid-size wake board, but he managed to get up and go several times. Regan and Kayla rode in the tube, Riley had a turn in the tube, David did the knee board, then Riley got up on that no problem and immediately wanted to start doing tricks on it! He looked so cute out there, the looks on his face when he would get up and when he would fall, were priceless!! The kids were exhausted after the busy day, Regan fell asleep in the boat on the way home.

On Sunday, we were getting ready to leave for home when we found out my brother Donnie was gonna come in after all! So we stayed around and got to visit with him and his girlfriend Gail and see my nephew, Little Donnie, whom I haven't seen since he was 4 days old!! He was so cute, and the cousins all had a great time playing together. It's a great place for kids, out in the country, all the animals, tractors, dirt, the wagon, they just had a blast, and did NOT want to leave!! We finally did leave around 5 and made it home around 8:30. Regan slept all the way home, I think this weekend just wiped her out!