Author: Family and the Lake House

Painted Playhouse

Hey there, friends! I wanted to pop on over to the blog and share with you this simple and fun outdoor summer activity – painting the playhouse with washable paints! We had messy moments, and in hindsight we probably should’ve used a tarp – oops! 😉 Luckily the “messy” part of this activity also included…

Rosemary Beach – 2021

It’s the Fourth of July on Sunday and I’m bound and determined to finally post our winter/spring break trip to Rosemary, Florida before the Fourth actually arrives! So here we are and here we go! All those months ago, we picked up the kids from school and quite literally headed south! My sister had made…

Summer Fun from Amazon

Gasp!  I’m back with another blog post for the month!  That makes two for the month – well, in fact that makes two for the entire year!  I’m killing it!  😉 I thought I’d hop on over here to share some of our favorite tried and true non-technology goodness for summer!  I’ve got mesh bags…

Henry is 10!

It’s official! Henry is 10!  10?!  Double digits!  Two whole hands! First of all, let me start off with the obligatory, “How am I old enough to have a 10 year old?”  It seems like yesterday……….all of it. Oh, the memories we’ve made, my sweet Henry.  The memories that are forever engrained in Mom and…

Christmas Festivities Recap

We’ve made it to the Christmas Festivities recap! First up was a visit to the in-laws the Saturday before Christmas. Henry had a basketball game that day.  I had finished <just about> all my wrapping the day before.  The gift wrapping I hadn’t finished – my nephews’.  So once Henry finished with basketball we beelined…

Most of December ;)

Hey guys and Happy New Year!!!  It’s 2020. What?!  Wasn’t it JUST 2004?! I best get to doing things eh? One of my New Year’s resolutions is to blog more…story. of. my. life. My December recap is going to start on the day after Thanksgiving, because – well, we all know that that’s the unofficial…

Jane Kathryn – September 2019

September had arrived! Our baby Jane was packing on the pounds and she was smiling up a storm!  Don’t mind Jon and his shirtlessness – it was still hot outside!  Bahaha!  Sorry, Jon. 😉 The kids swam… (surprised?) And I took 198,375,821,357,123 pictures of Jane. And go……………… Another tooth had emerged… Jane’s new favorite toy,…