Lake Fun...

Well it's been crazy, we are trying to get things together for the lake. My entire Gregory side of the family are going to the lake. Crazy, we haven't done this in 10yrs. This will be a story to write about. The last time we where together was right after my grandmother died in 1997. She died in April, then we went to the lake in August. We haven't done this with everyone until now. My grandmother and grandpa always took us the lake every summer. I am the oldest of 8 girl cousins, and this was our vacation. Go to the lake. I was only 6 month's old when I went to the lake the first time. Mom said that I cried and cried. She told me that she was about to get in the car and go back home. But my grandpa grab me and took me walking around camp until I feel asleep on his shoulder. There are so many memories stored up at the lake. We didn't have a place we choose to camp by tent or camper. It was all fun and exciting. We didn't know what would happen at the lake or who we would run into. Being girls we would walk around the camp for hours at a time. Just talking about guys or just catching up. We all live in different states so it's hard to stay in contact with each other. Anyway my grandmother was the greatest at wanting us all to have fun. That was her goal. To let her family have fun at the lake. She bought anything and everything. Boats, skies, tubes, campers, tents, food, and we had plenty of it. It didn't matter the cost or when we new we all would come to the lake. I went every year until 97. Then we didn't go very much. We are now 28-18 yrs old. Alot has changed some of us are married and have kids of our own. We don't have grandma or grandpa to be the center of everything. It's all on our own, and there is a void there that all of feel. 10yrs later we compare how it was all those years that we had fun at the lake. There hasn't been a time this weekend or this weekend that grandma and grandpa's memories are not reflected on. We will try to make this week the most fun we can. We just miss what we used to do with grandpa and grandma. So I want to say Thank You God for giving us grandparents that gave us a wonderful time in our lives at the lake. We miss them very much. And we know they are in your hands.