Summer family vacations have not always looked the same way over the past years. Winter vacays are mostly spent in Florida and we LOVE THAT!!! We discussed going to Branson, Missouri, this summer but Mike did a big remodel at Lapps and we decided to spend a few days at the cabin instead! It was so good!!!
Wednesday I planned to pack, get groceries and clean the house. That's not what happened. I woke up not feeling well and achy all over. By lunch time I had a fever and chills and Mike came home to take to out to the doctor and get me checked for a urinary track infection. I felt it over a week ago but I thought cranberry pills were helping. Once the fever came, I knew I needed a doctor. And that's what it was. I was given some meds and Mike picked up some soup at Dienners and then got the kids from Lena. They were hanging out there because I wasn't well.
We decided to sleep and see how I feel in the morning. I woke up feeling better but still weak. I did get to go to Strasburg Market Place for some groceries and then I came home to pack and load up for the cabin! We were not in a rush and it all worked out great! Costco was another grocery stop I needed to make and we did that on our way to the cabin! Perfect!
We arrived late Thursday afternoon at the cabin and relaxed for the next three days!!! It was great!
We went down to the river and watched the boys fish.
Hadassah and Jer and Ritchie and Matthew all met us at the cabin Thursday night. Matthew and Ritchie took the kaiaks on the river. Austin wanted a ride to! Jeremiah helped cook up steak one night and we fried up the fish the big boys caught the weekend before! (The fish was put in the cabin freezer last weekend so we could eat it this weekend!)
Ashlyn and Austin entertained themselves! They filled up water balloons and did relays with them!
There are so many butterflies at the cabin!
The boys could fish all day long and they really liked cooking them up too!
Jeremiah tried out his new style tree stand!
We rode whatever had four wheels up there! 😂 Mike drove brother John's rig around. Mike and Austin loaded up a kaiak and headed to the river. Ashlyn and I hoped on the four wheeler and beat them there! We love riding around on the mountain roads!
We drove the golf carts up to the blueberry patch numerous times. The berries are still mostly green and so we didn't pick many but the kids love it up there!
Matthew loves to fish and always catches them! He catches more than all the others fishing. He's got a knack for it and is good! One time, he caught a fish, took it off his hook and flipped it back into the water right beside Ritchies boat. Ritchie was supposed to catch it. So funny!
We started a 2000 piece puzzle. That's the biggest puzzle I ever tackled and because it's big and tons of pieces, I decided to break it down by sections. We got the border together! Then I sorted pieces in colors. One plate for green, one for the balloons, one for the different coke signs, etc.. We got a lot of pieces together but near finished it. We packed it up in one big stack of plates and now I need to unpack it here at home somewhere and get working on it! We might be finished by Christmas!?!
So many couch snuggles!!!!!
Late nights and sleep in mornings!
There were the biggest "wish weeds" up there!
The kids put chalk in their hair - hence the red and blue hair here.
Drying off ....
We stopped at Red Rabbit on the way home and we loved it! We've drove past this place for years, years and never stopped. Usually, on the way home for the cabin, etc. we are more than ready to be back home! This time, we took the time to stop and it was fun!!!!
We got home Sunday eve and unpacked and spent the rest of the evening in the back yard watching the boys play catch and we cooked up some campfire steaks at 10 PM. These are the days!!!!!
Ashlyn and I just couldn't help but take a walk out to the garden after we unpacked! The cucumbers are ready for picking! She was thrilled to find all her foods!
Big cucumbers and a huge zucchini!
We had such a fun time spending the past few days at the cabin with the kids! We played games of four up and four down. Lot's of golf cart rides. Four wheeler rides. Blueberry picking and kaiak fishing! Puzzle pieces were put together! Southern Gospel music always plays at the cabin! Late nights, sleep in mornings! Campfire foods! Watermelon, chocolate cake and fish fries! Shuffle board games, another chapter of Where the Red Fern grows read and being lazy! Everything was so much fun!!!!
Summer of 2022 is so fun!
