It's Not a Witch or a Wench

Last night we hung out with a winch. This is my husband getting ready to be pulled by the winch.
Now would be a good time to pause and make sure you are not confusing winch with witch or wench. I am not referring to a Wizard of Oz character or a woman with loose morals here. You see a winch is a revolving machine that in this case has a 600 foot rope and ski handle attached to it. This machine pulled my husband as well as the other young men from the extended Nykamp family across the water and over various aparatus if they so chose all while on a wakeboard.

And here are the rest of us hanging out around the winch choosing not to be pulled by her, but we'll play by her...she's not a wench or a witch.

Meet & Greet

A couple weeks ago my husband came running upstairs shouting, "We're going to the boat show! We're going to the boat show!" It wasn't about the boats for Jon, it was about wakeboarding star and legend, Parks Bonifay.
Parks is undoubtedly one of the greatest wakeboarders in the world. Plus, he holds the Guinness World Record for being the youngest water skier; he skied at 6 months and 29 days old. His life is super interesting, and we're not the only ones that think so; they made a documentary about him which Jon got for Christmas.
From the previous post you can see we had a great time at the show, but the best part (honestly we're all a bit star-struck) was meeting and talking with Parks. He was super cool and talked to Jon and Bright for several minutes. We're lovin' our autographed poster and DVD.

2 out of 3

I was able to spend Father's Day with two out of three super special dads in my life. Yes, I know it's Wednesday night and I'm just getting around to the post. Sorry for the delay.

We did celebrate Father's Day with Jon's dad early; he's in Turkey giving a tour right now.

Jon and my dad enjoyed part of the day by wakeboarding together, and I got to go along to snap some pictures. Jon LOVES wakeboarding. He hopes that he can still be wakeboarding when he's my dad's age.

Jon enjoyed his first Father's Day this year. I know he would say it was pretty special. In about a month, he's already become a great dad. Bright is super lucky.

BIG Weekend

The Walcotts had quite the weekend. Friday was our 5 year anniversary. We share that anniversary with several friends of ours. Hope you had a great day VZs. We also now share the date with Kim & Aaron. We attended their wedding at the Amway on Friday night. It was our first outing outside of an appointment at the pediatrician last week.

Kim & Aaron's wedding was beautiful. We had a great time, and I was so thankful that I was able to attend. We were able to visit and meet a lot of people including Aaron's family from Philadelphia. Kim & Aaron will be moving to State College, Pennsylvania after a two week honeymoon in Italy. We are ecstatic for them.

We were able to visit with lots of friends including Angela (my college roommate) and her husband Jon.

Dan & Jordan babysat Bright upstairs in our room while we were at the wedding and the reception. Kim told the Amway that we were celebrating our five year anniversary, so because we had celebrated our wedding at the Amway five years earlier they upgraded us to a beautiful suite.

Following our time at the Amway, we headed to the Raterink Cottage for the rest of the weekend. We hadn't been there in quite some time, and we missed Memorial Day Weekend because I was still in the hospital. We know Bright will grow to love this place as much as we do.

Jon got to finally wakeboard for the first time this year too.

We hope you had a great weekend just like we did.

Lindsay