Gold Lake house visit

We got invited to go visit our friends the Golds at their house on the lake over the holiday, so we made the trip out to Horseshoe Bay the day before Thanksgiving!

This is LJ's precious friend Brinkley! Love her! They have different teachers, but are in kindergarten together at the same school and play often! She also has a little brother, Beckham, that is almost exactly Evan's age! We love playing with these two!
After touring the lake house and riding bikes, we went out to the back deck to hang! They fished a little, then decided to get swim suits on and swim in the neighbor's hot tub. 
Brinkley taking good care of Evan! 
LJ became obsessed with the fishing! He did not want to stop!!!

Just hanging on a big tube! I wonder if they'll have the courage to do this when a boat is pulling it! :)
Time for Ginger Bread house decorating! 
LJ still fishing- hours later! Barrett tried to help, but the fish weren't biting :(

We planned to go to the Marble Falls version of the trail of lights as a group, but Ellie woke up from her nap with a fever. So sad! So Barrett and Mat stayed home with Ellie while Keri and I took the other four kids to the Walkway of Lights! It was very cute and fun!! 
Walking in!

Excited kiddos!
The trail was right along the lake and so beautiful! Loved the reflection of the lights on the water!


Elf buddies! Hah! 


Everyone else was running ahead, but I had to get a quick shot with Evan in the cool lit tunnel! 
No Santa tonight, but we enjoyed the props!!! 


After the Walkway of Lights, we picked up Barrett and Ellie (who after some Ibuprofen was acting as happy and normal as ever!) and headed home so as not to expose anyone (any more than we already had) to whatever she had! Sad we needed get to have our slumber party, but what a FUN day! 
Thank you Gold family!! 

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