Lake Winnipesaukee

Our good friends Kim and Craig Ballard invited us out to Lake Winnipesaukee for a few days. They asked us a few weeks before if we would want to come out, and we checked the flights, and booked it! Very spontaneous for us, but we are SO glad they invited us out. We had the wonderful chance to stay with Kim's parents in Maryland last summer while Stuart was doing his internship. And then we stayed in their gorgeous new home on the Lake. The Harrisons are so sweet to us.
Lake Winnipesaukee is absolutely beautiful. I honestly have never been a big Lake Powell fan. I have been a couple times, and I was never too excited about it. However when you combine beautiful East Coast, cute homes, boating, and staying in a house with a bed and kitchen...then I am a huge fan. I told Stuart we should live there. Such a simple life it would be. I loved it. Take me back now...

This is our room we stayed in at their house. So cute. Debbie, Kim's mom, has this house designed down to the last detail. My favorite part was the blue seersucker curtains on turquoise walls. Loved it

Beautiful Home

On our way to their house from the airport Craig stopped at this massive fireworks store to get some to shoot off that night. So Craig and Stuart put on an awesome show for us. The fireworks were like those on 4th of July, we just needed some music! It was great.

Just another beautiful morning on the lake..

You could boat into "town". I loved town. Just a quaint little place that had the cutest restaurants and old shops.


Cute band that played, riding into town, and the sandwich place with yummy philly cheesesteaks.

After Sunday Dinner at Kim's grandparents, they boys played a little tennis and Kim and I chatted

The cutest

This was Stuarts first time wakeboarding/wake surfing and he rocked it! He had so much fun and wishes he could do it again

I also wakeboarded and wakesurfed. I consider it my first time, since I had only been wakebaording for one outing a long time ago...but I got up too and it was so fun! I actually liked the surfing the best.

Craig and Kim doin their thing

I love to go on Jet skis. It was sooo pretty riding around this beautiful lake.

This was at the Pratt's house. Stuart and Craig are good friends with J-Pratt whose family also has a home on the lake. Their home is the party house. Here we are jumping off their 50 foot rope swing. No joke. I was so scared, and when I dropped into the water it hurt so bad. I felt like my head had gotten hit by a truck. Guess thats the consequences of being hardcore for your husband.

Just floating up in the clouds after dropping from the rope

They also have this 200 foot waterslide that shoots straight down in the lake. SO fun

In Town getting ice cream

J-Pratt also rocks the air chair. That thing is nuts

Stuart of course had to try it out...he did great!

Our last night Kim and Craig made us a delicious dinner. Oh it was so good...Craig is quite the chef and everything was amazing. Grilled pineapple, steak, chicken, potatoes..amazing.

Other highlights of the trip include:

-Spending time with other members of the Harrison Family...Debbie..Jesse, Chris and their little girl..and their friends Lexie and Jared
-Eating Delicious food ALL the time
-New Hampshire blueberries
-Late night movies and games
-Seeing Craig and Stuart together...they have alot of similar tendencies which is fun to see. I would love to have known them freshman year of college (Stuart and Craig are also second cousins and grew up together.)
-Meeting Mitt Romney at church and having paparazzi outside, secret service in the back, and having it feel completely normal that he was in Sunday School with us. I sure hope he wins.
-Seeing all of the people we met on the East Coast again...they are all such good people. I love the church out there.
-A calm Sunday boat ride seeing all the pretty homes

Needless to say we had the most wonderful time. Thank you Kim and Craig and the Harrisons for opening up your home to us. We had the best time! Love you guys!!