We have been at the Lake of the Ozarks since last Saturday morning enjoying some good old 'do whatever we want' time. It's been 'eventful' to say the least. On Sunday while docking the Pontoon boat my Father in Law NAILED the dock going about 10 mph.....as he drilled it, he threw the boat in reverse (about 3 seconds to late) and the force of the blow and reverse in direction sent my 7 year old son head over heels off the front of the boat into the water. He had his life jacket on and didn't hit anything on the way in....so after he surfaced he just had a huge 'WTF Just happened to me look on his face' and I pulled him out with no further issues.....other than watching my mother in law scold my father in law, that was funny.
Then this morning, in the hectic chaos of 16 people (yes 16...all my wife's side of the family
) my three year old gets out the front door and no one noticed until my brother in law saw him on his vehicles back up camera directly in the path of his car while leaving for the store
Talk about thanking GOD for technology and watching out over the little buggar.....and talk about feeling like a utter failure as a parent.
I don't waste time on the 'what if's' of situations like that, I just thank God that there is no 'what if' and learn from it and try to make sure it doesn't happen again.
And then, today my sister in law had an idea being that we all were going to be here....we bought white shirts and dresses and had a photographer come over to take a bunch of 'family' pics. It went very good...up to this point:
You can see me (4th adult from the right) and my wife (first woman on right) Screaming for our three year old son...the little guy near the bend in the dock. My brother in laws wife grabbed him for us the second we screamed for him, it was just scary for a good three seconds cuz we couldn't see him. Take a good look at everyone and you can see my sister in law laughing her a$$ off....not even concerned her nephew could have been under the friggin' water!!!!
But, we all were fine and have been sitting here getting texts/e mails and Facebook comments from everyone....i'm just glad no one was hurt. So there's my vacation synopsis and we still have to make it to Sunday.
Oh, and I was able to go golf as well...