Cabin Family Vacay

This year, we were one family member short for our yearly family vacation at Nana and Bumpa's cabin; Connor had two summer jobs and was unable to take even one day off.  We missed him!!!

We stayed for about a week and enjoyed time with Nana, Bumpa, Uncle Troy and Auntie Sarah, Uncle Cory, Sadie and Isaac, and the puppies (Max, Bailey - hiding during every photo opp, and Riley).

So first... the puppy pics!

It took a little while for Jango to get acclimated with the other pups again, but once he did, they played quite a bit.  And... when they got tuckered out, they laid like broccoli.

Now... onto pics of time spent with Nana and Bumpa!

Chillin' out on the back patio, playing with Kinetic Sand.

And inside, sitting on Bumpa's lap, playing Star Wars and chatting about heroes.

Bumpa has a nice raised garden out back with lots of delicious raspberries and strawberries.  The strawberries weren't ready to pick, but there were a ton of ripe raspberries.

And... lots of swimming of course!

Jango retrieved his duck while we swam.  And, if Ramsey got too far out, Jango would try to "rescue" Ramsey.   This is actually how Jango jumped off the dock for the first time; he thought Ramsey needed help and jumped right in!   We continued to throw the duck for him while he plopped off the dock to retrieve it.  Sidenote: He did this for ONE DAY.  The next day, he had decided he didn't want to jump off any longer (most likely because he hadn't quite gotten the hang of it and sunk right away before coming back to the surface).

I blew up the water trampoline (OMG that took forever!) and Daddy sandbagged it and put it in the water.

Ramsey and Eric played a game of "Swamp Monster" too.  Incidentally, Ramsey wasn't as thrilled when lake weeds were placed on his noggin!

While Isaac and Sadie were still at the cabin, we had to go tubing!  This was Ramsey's FIRST TIME tubing.   I was grateful that his nice cousins were there to help Ramsey be brave.  :-)

We promised Ramsey we'd go really slow. 

We trolled for a little while.  Bumpa gradually bumped the speed up.

When Ramsey would do "thumbs down" as to ask to decrease the speed, we'd all just wave at him and smile. hehe  

After a nice long ride, Ramsey seemed to be about "tubed out", so we reeled him in and let Isaac and Sadie go for a speedier ride.

They did everything in their power to try to get dumped.  The Big Mable isn't a "dumping" kind of tube though!

And now for some fishing pics....

A cold front had come through over the weekend.  It finally started to warm up more on Wednesday.  Eric, Bernie and I went out and caught some nice keeper fish.

In the evenings, Eric and I went out to try to slay during a night bite.  The views were gorgeous!

Evening 1 was beautiful and proved to be productive, given the weather was just starting to turn around.

The next evening, storms were rolling in around us.  The picture doesn't show it (at all - weird), but there were two rainbows behind me.  Stunning!

Admittedly, as the sky was dark, I was a bit uneasy, but Eric assured me we wouldn't get strike by lightning and die (ha!), so we stayed out.  And, we hauled in with a nice catch.

Our time at the cabin always seems to fly by so swiftly.  It's wonderful to be able to see family and spend our much-needed time away with loved ones.