Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Payton's Place

On Lake Couer d'Alene in Idaho, our friends the Paytons have a wonderful get-a-way home. Natalie invited Marina and Tess to spend a long weekend there this past week. Jill took the girls out on Thursday, and these photos are from Saturday afternoon, when Kari & I arrived, along with Kari's older daughter and a friend who needed to be dropped off Sunday in Spokane @ Gonzaga University for "Washington Business Week" which is for high school kids - sort of an educational camp. They went early, and I tagged along, so we could spend one night with the girls at the lake.
The Paytons have spent the last couple years completely remodeling the interior of this house (wow, you should see the before pics and the results inside - amazing!) and now they are having all the decks re-done and plan to update the exterior soon too. I just loved what they've done - it's a beautiful place!
Natalie, Tess and Marina in the bow of the boat while we cruised the lake and they went tubing.
Nat, Marina and Tess - right after they each climbed the ladder 1/2 way up a train trestle bridge over a river that feeds into the lake, then jumped! What fun!!!

1 comment:

Kelly said...

What a beautiful lake house! I've been to that lake with Kelly for a family reunion several years ago and we stayed at multi-tiered house right on the lake too. What a fun getaway!