Let's go to the lake!

I think this is the latest trip to the lake we've taken.....there just didn't seem to be a big break in the calendar from sports, work, and other visitors to the lake! So, off we went in August!

This year, the other family members on the trip were: Larry and Paula, Bobbye and Mike, Bobbi and Joe, CJ and Anna, Katy and LJ and Abby, Allison and Avery, Sean and Julie, Andrew, Betsy and Harrison, Alex and Shannon, Nick and a friend, Sam and 3 friends, Betsy's sister and 3 family members, and us five! It was a FULL house to say the least!

The kids loved the time with the cousins and the cousins' friends. All the big kids included my kids in everything so that was probably the best part of the trip. Joe and I prepared our annual ribs meal too!

 I think Maddox catching a Walleye on Burntside was the highlight of our trip this year!

We also got to spend only a couple of hours with Tony and Kelly's crew. We got some great tubing photos from our short time!

Ely is one of my kids' favorite places to be....I love seeing them experience everything together every summer!

 Until next year.....we're out!

Annual Summer Ely Trip

We headed to Ely in July....it was a trip that was hard to fit in this year! We had only a limited amount of days due to work, weddings, baseball, etc. But, we weaved it in and managed to be with quite a few relatives there!

A few family and a few new friends made.....

And, a few photos of just us at the lake this year....

It was a good trip full of good food, conversations, tubing, cliff jumping, grilling, and more. However, on our last night there.....90 mph winds and thunderstorms occurred and this happened:

So...the power went out, we were unable to use toilets, or the sink, or the fridge, or anything. And, our saw was in the shop, and our generator was broken, and our car was stuck in a parking lot surrounded by trees. And, so that's when things started to go downhill....but the good news is that we were all okay, no one was hurt, and our cabin and cars survived miraculously!

This was also the year that nick took Sean and Julie's keys back to Iowa with him in his bag....good times!

Needless to say, we were all really happy to be home in our own beds this year, safe and sound!