Last weekend Todd and I were invited to Lake Hartwell in Clemson, SC by our friends Matt and Jill. They have a great house down there that is right on the lake...they call it "the Doghouse" (Matt and his dad are vets) and there is awesome Tiger decor everywhere. It is a big house and they finished the basement when they bought it so it is 3 levels with 7 bedrooms total. We had almost a full house with us, Mary (Matt and Jill's 1 yr old daughter), Jamie and Damon, Ashley, and Jill's brother (who is also named Matt).
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| This is the logo they designed for the house. They had it on the wall, signs outside, and they even had coozies made! |
We left Friday afternoon when Todd got off of work and we got there just in time for dinner. Matt and Jill are awesome hosts and they cooked some great meals for everyone. Friday night we had this amazing mac&cheese (by the Lee brothers) that I am definitely going to have to try out.
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| Jill, Ashley, Todd, Jamie, Damon, and Matt O. ready for dinner. |
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| Matt cooking the veggies and Grace waiting for him to drop something... |
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| Jill taking orders. |
On Saturday we got up and took the boat around the corner to a rope swing where the boys had fun playing Tarzan. Ha.
Then we came back to the house and made lunch while we waited for Mary to wake up for her nap. We headed across the lake to a cove that had a little beach. The guys played Bocce while we took the baby to play in the water.
This picture was taken right before I was attacked by a fish that we nicknamed "mole monster" because they were coming up and biting everyone's moles! It was actually kind of painful... I never realized fish had teeth like that. Shortly afterwards we packed up and moved the boat somewhere else where the fish were a little nicer!
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| Damon, Todd and Matt |
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| Jill and Mary |
That night when we got back to the house they made another awesome meal (Lowcountry Boil) and we played a bunch of card games and ping pong. It was a great weekend!
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| Jill, me, Ashley |
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| Damon and Todd |
I had to share this too because I thought it was so neat. There are 4 boys in the family and apparently they have been collecting Pez dispensers ever since they were little. They had them on display on a wall in the game room and apparently this is not even all of the collection! Such a fun idea!
I have a few comments about this post:
ReplyDelete1. Can I get that recipe for the mac and cheese when you try it?? I've been looking for "the" recipe and simply haven't discovered it yet, but this one that you had sounds promising!
2. I love the name Mary! She's a cutie!
3. Fish bites give me the heebie jeebies! ahhh