Our Weekend at the Lake

The last weekend in July we spent in Coeur d'Alene with Zak's family.  His grandparents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.  We got to see Zak's parents & sisters, cousins & aunts & uncles as well.  We also got to meet 2-week old baby Rachel Rose, who is so easy to love!

they fell asleep watching the Olympics, pretty cute, huh?

sunset over the lake

We drove up after work on Thursday night and immediately fell in love with the area.  We haven't had a lot of time to explore the Coeur d'Alene area, but now we are thinking of future possible trips.  The lake is beautiful, clean and huge.  Trees everywhere, lake-side houses, basically an ideal location for us.  Especially Zak, he is a huge fan of this type of living.  I'm surprised with how my view of our life has changed and can easily see myself living in this area.  It's so beautiful, relaxing and would be a dream to live here.

down the steep stairs to the house

view from the end of the dock

view from the little convenience store nearby

 We loved seeing Zak's family, we haven't seen both his parents & sisters altogether in two years, and it was nice to spend time with them.  We spent Friday swimming, tanning, kayaking and watching the Opening Ceremonies of the summer Olympics.  It was a nice, relaxing day full of good food and fun.  On Saturday Zak and his dad went to a shooting range and I went with Zak's sister & mom to downtown Coeur d'Alene.  We had a fun time window shopping, popping into the boutiques and antique stores.  We met up with the guys and a family that they used to live near in Michigan years ago for a really good pizza lunch.

brotherly love on display

skipping rocks with Liv

magical dragon tattoo

glow-in-the-dark unicorn chest tats

showing off her sweet tattoo

Sunday we celebrated the 50th anniversary with stories from their courtship, a cute slideshow set to music and cake and ice cream.  It was a nice celebration of such an amazing milestone.  We had to leave afterwards, sadly.  It was hard to say goodbye to everyone, especially Zak's immediate family, since they live so far away.  But we have hopes of seeing them soon!

he was really sweet with baby Rachel

Liv, Delaney, cousins Chelsi & Kayla

the Reilly 6! we haven't had a nice picture of all of us since the wedding, this one is going on the wall!

goofy family picture

the memo was: jewel toned, no logo shirts...we look nice!

you can imagine the amount of persuasion I had to use to get this picture to happen!