The Friesins...

Our friends own a winery...a real honest to goodness winery...which is of course the reason why we are friends.  HA...just kidding.  Actually, we've be the best of friends with the Kludt/Williams family since we were all in diapers...or for almost 15 years...whatever.  Ben and April live in Lake Chelan and we went to visit last weekend.  It was a beautiful fall weekend, our kids played hard and we thoroughly enjoyed our time together.  We refer to them as the "friesins."  You know...friends that are like cousins.

Since we're talking wine, if you are ever in Chelan, you MUST visit their winery and restaurant.  Wapato Point Cellars and the Winemakers Grill....fabulous!  Make sure you taste the Reserve Syrah or Red Delicious...my two favorite reds!  And, while you're at it...you should also go to Lake Chelan Winery, which is owned by April's parents.

This wall was just begging to be photographed.
I confess that I did add the "Wapato Point Cellars."

Uma is April's grandma.  She's 97 and lovely.  April asked if I'd snap some pictures of their family together.  Here are a few of the pictures.  While you might not appreciate pictures of someone else's family, take a second and enjoy that these shots are SOOC (straight out of the camera).  I continue to LOVE my new camera!

4 generations of lovely women!  This is SOOC...the lighting and ladies were just perfect.

The whole Kludt/Williams family.  

The friesins.

Yes, our whole family was there, but I put my camera aside for most of the weekend, and just enjoyed being together.  On Saturday, Aaron and the littles had some quiet time, and Luke and I went for a walk by the lake.  It was great to have some time with my oldest son, just hanging out.  Here's what we did...

We walked and played on the beach.

Enjoyed the gorgeous colors.  The sky was gray in this direction,  but the sun was
peeking through the clouds over the lake.  It made everything glow. 

Then Luke collected drift wood....
(This picture captured one my favorite expressions that Luke makes.  A treasure!)

...we made boats... 

...and then we threw sticks for almost an hour.  He just kept collecting and throwing, collect and throwing, collecting and...you get the picture.  You can see just some of the 100+ sticks floating in the middle picture.