Yankton, SD

Caleb, READY, SET,

GO!  We spent the majority of days at Yakton in the pool or the lake.  The kids were often wet from 10 am until 6 or 7 PM and boy did they go to bed easily!

Micah, Noah, Bennet and Caleb were the four amigos--constantly thinking up water games together.

Maria and Kiara--my teenage nieces, spent a lot of their time on the boat, skiing, wake boarding and playing "hand and foot"  They also were good sports about entertaining the young ones for us!

Avery was pretty content to just empty and fill buckets of water by the stairs.  It made swimming a bit easier for our family:)

Mom, Vonda and Christina watching the kids at the pool.

Campfire pictures

Kylie, Matthew, and Elijah--all born the same year--they loved hanging out together and always found things to play!

Riley, Matthew, Elijah and Kylie

Attempting a cousins picture gets more difficult.  Here we were trying to convince these cousins to stay and be goofy while we tried to get tired Maddie to sit on the couch:)

It was worth an attempt!!

Me, Ryan, Kirk and Vonda--how times have changed!

It is not easy to convince little kids that pictures are worthwhile, but we tried!

Our family.

We stopped on the way back home at the Falls in Sioux Falls, SD--they had record rain fall the night before and it was big rushing water!

Kirk leading the little ones around on the path all holding hands.

The Falls

We had a great time in Yankton and were so thankful that we all could be together!  The weather cooperated nicely except the last day it was rainy.  We thoroughly enjoyed swimming, the bike trails and boating.  Dan and I both tried wake boarding for the first time and the kids had a great time playing with their cousins.  Thanks Mom and Dad for planning and getting us all together-we loved it!