First time water skiing!!

We had an awesome evening tonight as both John & Brielle did some things they have never done before on the water at Grandpa Ted's & Grandma Carol's house.

Tim took them for a jet-ski ride where they hit a top speed of 40 mph! This year they have gotten braver about the fast speeds and they asked Tim to go faster. They arrived back at the dock all smiles :)

Then for the first time, we used this water ski trainer. Here John was learning how to use it on the dock. Both John & Brielle saw it sitting on the dock all day and were asking when they would get to water ski :). It rained a little in the afternoon, but the skies cleared up after dinner. John asked if he could go first.

Here's John! He went for about a 10-minute ride. He turned around several times to check out his wake. He would go back and forth between sitting and standing, and gave us lots of smiles.

Next Brielle was all ready to go for her turn. She also did about a 10-minute ride. She stood up for most of the time and even yelled for Grandpa to go faster :).

When we got back to the dock, John wanted to jump in and swim.

It was an awesome night for the kids... and the parents & grandparents were definitely very proud :).