Hear the Bells: 4th of July Lake Getaway

We spent the holiday weekend with William's family on Lake Tillery! I'm sure you are like me and wondering, "Where is Lake Tillery?" It is located in Troy, near Albemarle, about an hour outside of Charlotte. His family spent many of their vacations relaxing on this lake and they absolutely love it. After William and I started to date, I got to come a few times on family trips and then of course after we married we came every time they visited. I can see why they love it. It is very relaxing with beautiful scenery from the Uwharrie Mountains. You can swim, jet ski, go out in the boat or canoe, relax on the porch, hike, go for long walks, watch TV, and most importantly eat. The term they use is "graze". It means to put all the insanely bad for you food on the counter and you stand there and eat it 24/7.

The lake house as a really cool story, I think. Basically Williams grandfather, Paw Paw Bell, and his brother married sisters. They bought this land on the lake in the '70s and built two lake houses that faced each other for their families to enjoy. So there are many memories surrounding this little house! It's nice that we get to share in it and help Cora create her own memories of family time!

Below are some pictures to summarize our time at the lake!

Picture of the two houses from the lake - Ours is the one on the left. The other was recently sold to a new family and they have made many improvements to their side!

William made pancakes one morning for us to enjoy! Here are Parker and Cora eating a healthy breakfast to get the day started!

Jennifer and Cory brought their lab, Sampson, and here is Cora hanging on in his cage!

Cora got spoiled by her aunts! Here is Aunt Kat Kat doing her nails.

Cora dragging Parker to the lake!

Jennifer and Cora have a boat and it was really nice getting to go out on rides! Cora loved it!

She even fell asleep one day on it. I could have too!

Cora and her Great Grandma Bell!

Me reading and the kids watching "Finding Nemo"!

Playing in the baby pool - poor Sampson couldn't wait to jump in!

No tubs inside so we had to bathe out on the porch! I think she liked the view!

Aunt Jennifer fixed Cora's hair in these cute braids! And we are enjoying our ice cream cones!

Out on the boat getting ready to watch the fireworks!

Group photo!

This was a first for me! We took the boat out, rode about 10 minutes away and they had this pretty amazing firework display! It was so cool seeing all the boats out there. Cora loved it.