Weekend at Lake Dunmore

Again, sorry we have posted in a while, after mom brought back the 4th of July parade in town...the first in 21 years...she brought the circus to town! the real big top circus came to town last wednesday. Wednesday was also an important day - it was my granny's 80th birthday! So this weekend we got together to celebrate!  My dad is the youngest of 7 brothers and sister and 4 of his siblings were there this weekend along with 13 of my first cousins. Our Aunt Nancy and Uncle randy have a house on lake dumore in Vermont - but this year my Aunt Helen and Uncle Mark rented the house - We had lots of fun playing on the beach, swimming out the dock but the most fun was today. Today I (Jacob) finally got brave enough to try this summer skiing thing mom and dad do each summer (see our blog from our last summer lake dunmore trip)

Dad wakeboarding (on Saturday)

mom skiing (on Saturday)

On Sunday, mom convinced me to go out on the boat, then she worked really hard to convince me to go on the tube.. I was really nervous but I loved it - see the big grin on my face!

since tubing was so much fun after I was nervous, I felt like I could accomplish much more and I wanted to try this water skiing thing - I figured since I can snow ski and I now know of how to swim (I swam 25 yards in swim lessons this week...see tomorrow's post) I could try this.. - here I'm learning about my skis and how to get up.

on the boom - this is the first step in learning to ski - you learn to stand up on the boom.. I got up on my first try! I was hanging on tight here!

Getting a little more comfortable - straight arms now!

so comfortable I could look up to smile - We are going back on Wednesday and I'm going to try going on on the rope!

Mom was so proud of me and she decided to push her comfort zone and learn to wake board! Here she is on the boom.. she got up the first time too on the boom

Mom on the rope off the boom on the wake board - it took her a long time to learn how to do this!