Cabin Vacation

We love the cabin so much we decided to make a week vacation of it this year.  Vic bought a mini trampoline for the end of the dock that the kids loved jumping on or off of.

Everyone had a good laugh at my failed back flip.  The trampoline moves all around when you try to jump off so it's a lot harder than it looks! (I guess I don't mind being the "butt" of people's laugh!)

 Evan came up the first weekend and played with the kids a bunch.

 Whitney was like a little princess on her new unicorn float.

 It got a hole on the first day and now after seeing a series of pictures like this, I think I know why!

 We had a lovely stuffie birthday party in the tree house we built last fall.  The kids love having an extra area all to themselves.

 On Sunday we went to church and then hiked around Big Springs afterward.

 We bought a new fridge and our friends delivered it for us and played on the lake before they left.
We also put in a new floor in the bathroom this week too.

 We tried to go hiking first thing in the morning at Harriman State Park and got rained out.  It was sprinkling when we left and started pouring rain about a half mile into it. Luckily it was still following the road so Vic could come rescue us!

 We tried again around 4pm and had much better weather!

 The wild flowers were in full bloom and beautiful!

 We loved the flowers in the meadows, but this is also where there was CLOUDS of mosquitoes!

 I was hiking along and noticed that this moment HAD to be captured! Whitney and Tommy were happily holding hands and all three kids looked so adorable with their stuffies coming out their backpacks.

 Tucker was feeling left out of the picture so we posed with all 3... so cute!

 It started sprinkling rain when we were up in the forest, we had no idea how much further, and it was starting to get late so we almost turned around at this point.

 We made it to the view point!

 We saw a deer on the way back down.

 ...and some giant mushrooms!

LOVE this picture!

 Tucker's not about to be left out of pictures.

 I was so proud of my munchkins, age 4,6,& 7.  Look at the map of where we hiked! 

 The rest of the week we relaxed around the cabin, played lots of games, read books, and played on the lake.

 Saturday morning we had our annual 4th of July parade around Bill's Island.

The kids were excited to drive their new 4-wheelers in the parade.

They got lots of good candy!

The kids loved riding 4-wheelers on all of the trails.  I was surprised there wasn't very many people on the trails.

Amber's family got there later in the day and we had fun playing on the lake together.

 On Sunday, the boys looked so cute in their matching ties, I had to get a picture!

We had a wonderful vacation!