Sage nodded happily and pecked her cheek before wandering off to the barns, feeding and watering all the horses before heading back to the house after making sure nothing needed his immediate attention. When he wandered in, he took the bag from Mari with a grin, slinging it over his shoulder and the moving to lock the house up once the rest of them were out the door. He moved to take Liz's hand when she reached for his, sort of wandering along slowly to keep pace with her, occasionally calling to Silas to stay where they could see him.

Mari grinned and followed him along, her hand wrapped around her daughters and a little picnic basket in the other hand. She smiled as they reached the lake... really, it only seemed to get more beautiful every time she saw it. She set the basket down, and told Liz and Silas to go off and play while she set ecerything up. Sage would probably like to go and mess around for a bit, too... he'd always enjoyed himseld when he messed with the kids. She made them put swimsuits other than their closthes on... one too many times they'd just dived in their clothes, and had to walk back soaking wet. They complained the whole day, and Mari didn't need that.

Sage had moved to help Mari spread out a blanket and set the bag down on a corner to keep the wind from blowing it over. He jogged off to join the kids after that though, since they were calling him over and he did enjoy running around and messing about with them. He did miss the times where he just ran around all the time, a bit, but he certainly wouldn't give the life they'd made for themselves to go back out on the streets. He did have that urge though, to go run off and cause mayhem somewhere. He decided he wouldn't give in to those thoughts since if he did so that Mari might kill him herself, though of course he knew she'd never actually kill him. But she wouldn't be happy to hear about it, for sure. Either way, he focused on just playing with the kids for a few hours, until they'd moved on to something else and he wandered back over to flop down next to Mari with a grunt, laying on his back to let the sun dry him off.