The Bailey Family: Mayfield Lake

The day after Andrew's birthday, Labor Day, we left for Mayfield Lake. We rented a house for a few days with my parents. It's only about 2 hours from our house which is nice. The day we got there it was rainy the whole way up. Fortunately Andrew took a 2 hour nap in the car, which is very rare...he usually only sleeps for 45 minutes max. in the car. We got to our house and just hung out for the night. We made dinner, played with Andrew and sat by the fire with our coffee and read. The house was absolutely amazing and had a beautiful view of the lake. It was a pretty big house for just the 5 of us. 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, a huge theater/pool room, a loft and a large great room. It was the perfect place for Andrew to run around. We packed several of his new toys from his birthday and he had so much fun playing and running around the place. Andrew slept great in a twin bed that night and the next day we woke up to clear blue skies! We had a slow morning and then about 10:30 we decided to go out on the boat. It was pretty cold so we bundled up in sweats, brought plenty of blankets and turned the heater on in the boat. We had the lake to ourselves! There was no one else out on the water and it was beautiful! The water was like glass. The boys geared up in their wetsuits and drysuits and ventured into the water. They both skied and wakeboarded and mastered a 180 on the wakeboard. We went back to the house which was only a 2 minute drive from the lake and had lunch and tried to put Andrew down for a nap. No such luck, so he watched a movie. I went back out on the water with my Dad & Nate and my mom stayed with Andrew. By that time it was a lot warmer out. We spent the rest of the day just lounging around, eating and watching a movie. The next day we hung out in the morning and left in the afternoon in hopes that Andrew would sleep on the way home. He did, but only for about 30 minutes. Oh well! It was such a fun little getaway and very relaxing. We all enjoyed spending time together and Andrew really loved playing with his Grandpa & Grandma!