cabin trip

This last week we went up to Northern Minnesota to Chris's family cabin! I have been going to the cabin for 13 years now and this was the best year to date weather wise and also the clarity of the water. It was gorgeous. First trip in a long time that no one had to get up in the night and put chairs, tubes, floaties, etc. away because of some crazy storm that blew in! It was calm and peaceful the entire time we were there.

It's easiest to summarize the week through pictures so here goes!

The kids had a blast of course. Max and Mya were lake rats. (though you can still catch Mya calling it a pond once in awhile and I even heard pool and ocean couple of times this year) They swam several times each day and loved every minute.




(you can tell Jeff is a little stronger than me:)


this pretty much sums it up...3 pairs of Max's swim trunks wet at the same time:)


They had a great time in the sand. Max especially..he would dig a giant hole until he hit water every day. It was pretty funny to watch him from above digging away with the giant shovel!



Ivy was 7 months old last year at the cabin so this was all very new to her. The first day she wouldn't even let her feet touch the sand. The 2nd day she wouldn't touch the water. The third day she would let you bring her into the water, but wouldn't let you put her down and by the 4th day she was playing on the sand and walking into the lake on her own! Very similar to how Max was his first summer at the cabin when he was 16 months old.



The neighbor was very kind to let us borrow his jet ski for a little cruising around the lake. Chris took Max and Mya for a spin. Mya hated it and Max was luke warm about the whole deal. Both kids also went tubing with me and the outcome was the same. I loved every minute of it though and was super sore the next day because of it! Chris threw me off the tube like it was nothing. Jeff was recording it with his go-pro and my swim suit bottoms ended up around my ankles and it may have been caught on tape!!





A couple projects were accomplished this year...Chris and his dad and brother put up two new doors and they also cut down lots of low branches that were getting in the way of our view of the lake. We also went and looked at carpet for the bedrooms which will be nice to have.





We got to look at this every night around 9:30. Every year we take the same picture, but it's so hard not to take a picture when you're looking at something so beautiful!



speaking of sunset...this is what Max and Mya did most nights right before sunset. A quick swim and then s'mores!



It has been a wet spring/early summer up at the lake so the mosquitos were out in full force. It appears that Max and Mya have the sweet skin and Ivy does not. Mya has 49 bites. Max a little less than that and Ivy a big fat ZERO! Crazy how different they can be, but I have to say I'm a little thankful it wasn't the other way around. Can you imagine Ivy with 49 bug bites that are itching her like crazy??!? Mya is a total trooper with them and Max as well.



I had a couple of photo sessions which is always fun. Max and Mya are getting really good at sitting still and once in awhile I can catch a good one of little miss Ivy as well!







Chloe was up to her old ways...this is what you could find her doing a lot of the time! Drove Chris absolutely nuts and started driving me nuts later in the week when she slept in our room! (because she smelled so bad!)



The whole family....an early photo for the 2014 campaign!



A few of the finalists for our annual family picture...haven't decided yet which one will make the wall!