Its a wrap! Beware, Photo dump Family week

 These people.... we are blessed

Starting to arrive

Lots of swimming, jumping off the dock and snorkeling

Oh, and tubing

Did I mention fishing?

Tossing of children

Coloring

Gaming and snacking

Rough housing

Chillin'

Lounging

Uncle Gavin and his peeps

Sand play

King of the raft

Kayaking

Boating

Tubing

For some of us, learning a new game

Building with K'nex

Making pie

Lake time

<3

Auntie Brie is queen of braiding

Pure goof!

Our Joy!

Good bye is hard 

We begin our 2023 Cabin season...

The ice went off the lake on May 3rd this year.

The company that opens our cabin did so on the same day.

We eagerly traveled up on Saturday May 6th to start our 2023 season!

It was a long-hard-winter with a lot of heavy wet snow!

 Our giant pines felt it. There are also a few oak trees on both side of our cabin that left a few leaves

 to clean up along with the pine needles and a "bumper crop" of Pine cones.

All the branches

We also did a little trimming of one of our pines

1st load along with a broken washing machine.

We are doing a bathroom renovation this spring, so along with the yard work, 

we begin this project as well.

Our flooring is ordered, we will paint, put up new back splash, 

new trim and get a new stackable washer and dryer.

My "Mr-do-everything" will be the contractor :)

Meanwhile....

Yesterday afternoon we tackled the whole yard. Load #2

Rick blows all the debris into a line, I then rake into piles, 

we both load a tarp and then lift it into the trailer.

My yearly spring blisters are proof of my involvement!

I might also add, I have my Dad's LEAN-BIG-VEIN hands, I like that we have the same hands.

This visit is always the hardest!

 Lots of yard clean up and sprucing up the cabin,

 but we find time to rest and enjoy this sweet haven of ours.

Cabin opening and things...

Memorial weekend visit to the cabin

We were thrilled to have our "opening crew" here last weekend to help get the boat lift in!

 It's a 3 man/woman job so that's usually the last thing we have to do!

Gavin and Brice have got this, while dad holds tight to the rope to help ease this 

giant hunk of metal into position.

Fine tuning

and finally....the boats in!

Lewin has always fished on his tummy, he cracks me up.

It's always fun having the littles here, so much activity, laughter and giggles

Some coloring in the morning

and swinging by mid-morning

This is a tradition for Scarlett and daddy, 

he carries her out into the lake with his hip-waders on and she giggles. 

Teach them young how to start a camp fire

and eat lots of s'mores

He still snuggles up to his mama on boat rides. <3

Bubbles with some Rochester Friends whose grandparents own a cabin across the bay from ours.

This one is having a hard time leaving.....

After the kids left, Rick and I stayed for another 3 days.

We mixed fun with projects

This is our 1st summer with Rick Brother Brad and wife Julie. 

They purchased a cabin about 1 mile down the lake from us.

We happened to be out on the lake at the same time, so we stopped for a visit.

relaxing

A lunch date planned on the lake, we are being picked up by Brad & Julie

Fun to have family on the lake with us.

We have a lot of history on this lake and where our cabin sits. Who would have thought that someday we would own cabin's here and be neighbors? It's just so great.

Too cold to swim, but it's ok to swing my feet in the lake 

We head back to Rochester today, we've decided it's too nice to hurry out of here, so we will finish some things up and then head out later this afternoon. 

We miss our Rochester people...

Finishing up home-schooling for the year. 

Did I mention my daughter is amazing, 

Homeschooling was not something she planned to do but she does it so well,

all the while running a household and working as a nurse part time.

These kids are so lucky!