Twin Lakes

We went on the most beautiful outing yesterday.  Leo put Rixy and Reed on the back of a motorcycle, Yet-yet put Faith on with her, and Maddie and I hopped on Angie's new scooter, and we headed for the mountains!  It was so refreshing to get out of the city and into a little cooler temps :)  Here's a little video of our trip :)  I just couldn't get over how green it all was!  Seriously, so surreal!  Anyways, the little GoPro does a pretty good job, but still doesn't quite do the beauty of this place justice.

Here's a little story that didn't get put in the video, because there's no footage of the event: 

When we got to the second lake I decided to walk across this giant log that went quite a ways out into the lake. Part of the log was under the water, but I didn't think much of it. Next thing I knew I was heading into the lake! I ripped my purse off and held it high above my head! My purse had my water bottle, GoPro, phone, and money in it, and I still had my shorts and t-shirt on over my swimsuit. I let out a squeal, and in I went! haha It really was SO funny! Luckily I was able to keep my purse above my head, out of the water. I couldn't touch the bottom, but was able to swim to the side pretty quickly. NONE of the stuff in my purse got wet. It really was such a blessing! I bought this purse on Friday, and it's kind of water resistant. I still don't know how I had the reflexes to get that thing off, but I'm so glad that I did! Needless to say, I was pretty blessed. Because I was already soaked, I decided to take my shirt and shorts off and just swim around in the lake for a while. Angie, Faith, Rixy, and Reed jumped in with me too. It was pretty dang funny, but none of them really laughed. I don't know if they were too worried about me and my stuff or what, but I know that all of you would have been laughing your heads off! haha

That was just an excerpt from the email I sent my family.  The unexpected dip in the lake was actually the icing on the cake :)  What an awesome day!

p.s. when we got home we discovered that the invitation had been accepted and we went over and ate some of the pig.