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This past week was Colleen’s company-mandated furlough, so we decided to make the best of it and take our family of three to Aunt Beth and Uncle Joe’s lake house on Lake Hartwell (South Carolina) for a few days.  As always, they were very gracious hosts and even turned the house over to us for a few days after they went back to Atlanta for work (sucks for you guys!).  Also as always, Uncle Joe kept me up waaaaay past my bedtime drinking beer.  If only I had a dollar for everytime I’ve heard “I think I’ll have just ONE more.”  Good times though, as usual!

While we were there, a buddy of mine, Jason Scofield, his wife, Tricia, and their 2 year old, Caleb, made a very short pitstop at the lake house while on their way from Maryland to Alabama.  We last saw them in 2006 before either of us had kids, so it was good to meet each family’s new addition in person (instead of looking at pictures on the computer). Here’s a couple of pictures of Claire and Caleb playing ping-pong (or at least their version of it) in their swim diapers right after a trip down to the lake!

While at the lake house, a few things happened that were just absolutely wonderful.  First and most importantly, Claire slept in like a champ the whole time we were there, as well as took very good-sized naps during the day, which made mommy and daddy very happy!  And secondly, Colleen and I did absolutely NOTHING other than read books and watch movies from Beth and Joe’s movie collection.  Speaking of the movie collection, it needs some UPDATING!!  If you have Beth or Joe this year for Christmas, get them some movies that were made this decade and at least made it to the big screen.  Some of those movies weren’t even good enough for Lifetime to pick them up, if that tells you anything!  haha  It was nice not having cell phone reception or an internet connection while we were there, which definitely helped Colleen and I “unplug” for a little while.

Other than the aforementioned naps, books, and movies, we also spent quite a bit of time in the lake.  The water temperature was perfect and the drinks were nice and cold.  Let me put into perspective what Joe and I did pretty much all day Saturday:  We sat on life vests in the lake.  That’s it.  And it was AWESOME.  Of course, we sat on the life vests so that we were at the correct height to keep our drinks out of the water.  Can you say “Real Men of Genius?”  Here’s a few pics:

Thanks again to Aunt Beth and Uncle Joe for allowing us to visit such an amazing place!  We’ve got the beach 2 1/2 hours away, the lake house 4 hours away, and the mountains of western North Carolina around 3 hours away.  Can’t beat it!