FROM HEAVEN AND EARTH ♥♥THE ORTON FAMILY♥♥

Friday, July 15, 2011

A DATE WITH THE LAKE

Stevie and I had some alone time on the lake today. It was PERFECT! She has never been water skiing and it just so happens that I have a friend with connections. We hooked up with her today. She took a few tries before she got the hang of it, but was skiing 4 miles at a stretch by the end of the day. She's a pro!

This was her first attempt on skis. She actually got out of the water, but fell rather quickly.

This picture was taken at the end of the day...she never fell.

During the day we took a break and got to ride on the MV Mt. Sunapee II with Kara for an hour and a half...she's the captain of the boat. She even let Stevie have a turn driving.

She was having a blast!

When she wasn't driving, she was sitting in my lap.

Or snoozing. Playing on the lake is HARD WORK!

After the cruise, we waited for Captain Kara to take us back out on her boat. This time Stevie got to tube.

And then we skied some more.

I haven't been since I was 12yrs. old and it didn't end well so I was a little nervous getting back out there.

It only took me a couple times to finally get the hang of it.

Kind of like riding a bike, right?

This time around it was a happy ending...

No traumatic falls.

I'm officially hooked...so is Stevie.

And I'm becoming one with water.

(yes...I just said that, mom!)

It was a PERFECT day with my daughter!

(and my older two feel extremely cheated...guess we'll have to go again, and again and again...)

Monday, July 11, 2011

FULL DAY...

Of surgery, beaches and basketball.

Kayla was up at the crack of dawn with her dad to have surgery on her right eye. She has a drifting eye so they tightened the muscle to help her control it better. This is the second time in 8 years.

This is a few hours after surgery. I suspect it'll be worse tomorrow...

While Kayla was recovering on the couch, the rest of us headed to Lake Waukewan for a swim and some kayaking.

WAIT! Did I mention Amy and her family are in town? Tanner and I wanted to make it to the other side of the BIG lake, but we ran out of time and had to head back.

I could have stayed out there ALL day...it was so peaceful and quiet.

We left Waukewan and headed to Winnipesaukee for some more fun. This time meeting up with a couple other families for some dinner.

(it's a hard life...I know)

Kayla was feeling well enough to sit on the beach...no swimming for 10 days.

She was happy to hang with the princess.

I love having my older twin around. Sadly, her stay is much shorter this year.

From the beach we headed to Stevie's basketball game. Her cousins had the pleasure of seeing her tear it up on the court.

With 33.1 seconds left in the game she hit a 3 to lift her team up by two. With 6.5 seconds left she was fouled and hit both free throws to lift her team to a four point win. She dropped in 15 for the game.

The only other thing that would have made this day perfect was some ice cream...but hey, you can't have it all.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

YW CAMP 2011

Just got home from a week of camp. We had a BLAST! Over a 100 girls, but these were my girls (below) that I was in charge of. Lots of laughs, lots of fun and lack of sleep was the motto of the week.

We were blessed with LOVELY weather the whole time.

The theme of Girl's Camp was S.T.A.R (stand for truth and righteousness) and they picked the constellation "Andromeda" to represent them. She was a princess so I bought them tiaras to wear at camp.