Cabin

As the summer draws near the end, we enjoyed on last weekend trip out of town to my parents cabin.  It was a wonderful, fun, and relaxing little vacation!  Here are some pictures.

Auntie Kristin and Teddy joined us to drive up Friday morning for an extra day of cabin fun.  Daddy and Uncle Eric drove up together after work.

Upon entry, the kids dove right away into playing with the cabin toys!

Despite chilly weather, we spent much of the afternoon at the beach!  The kids and I made sand "chairs" for them.

Daddy and Grandpa grilling the salmon and BBQ chicken

I love this tradition they have: bedtime storytime with Grandpa

On Saturday morning, it was Auntie Kristin's birthday, so we brought along streamers to decorate.  The kids did a great job!

Cuddles with Uncle Eric

Uncle Eric showed the kids how to knee board.  It is a good intro into skiing.

Watching Uncle Eric knee board

Doing a 360!

Tubing with Uncle Eric!  (The 3 kids are in the right tube and Uncle Eric had fun bouncing around and being silly in the left tube)

Happy Birthday Auntie Kristin!

Silly boys!

Uncle Eric and Colton like to swim out to the raft!

Larkyn riding the big hotdog with Teddy

Summer and Colton tried kayaking by themselves for the first time this weekend.  Summer had fantastic control and picked it up quickly!

Colton enjoyed kayaking...but didn't have quite as much control over his direction as Summer ;)

Grandpa and Larkyn "kayaked" on the hotdog!

Love this pic!

Beach fun!  The kids love to dig the biggest hole they can!

Pontoon ride

Sisters

Grandpa and Colton

Eric and Teddy

Kristin and Teddy

We went out for ice cream to celebrate Kristin's bday!

evening pontoon cuddles :)

After church on Sunday we enjoyed kayaking again.

And all three kids practiced knee boarding behind someone pulling them.  Here Colton is doing an awesome job pulling Larkyn :)

Water balloons!!!!!!!!

We had a fantastic weekend!  Thanks for hosting us all Grandma and Grandpa K!!!! We love you!

Tommerdahl Trailer Weekend

Picked up Daddy at work and headed up north!

We spent the weekend in Battle Lake, MN last weekend and had a blast hanging out with everyone on Paul's side of the family.  Grandma and Grandpa T graciously hosted us all at their trailer, and we had a great weekend full of memories.

We arrived mid afternoon on Friday and the kids had a blast pulling out their favorites of Grandma and Grandpa's toys.

Colton loves Grandma and Grandpa's stash of Lightening McQueen cars and was soooo excited to make a dirt track to race them on!

The girls went straight for the Polly Pocket things!

We all enjoyed bean bags, but Colton especially spent lots of time playing...with Grandpa and Daddy, against Mommy, with Uncle Jordan, and even just by himself!

After a delicious dinner of the kids' favorite pesto chicken, we got them to bed and enjoyed a fun bean bags game of Grandma and Grandpa vs Paul and me :).  Then we enjoyed chatting around the fire while we waited for the rest of the family to arrive.

On Saturday morning, the day was gorgeous!  The kids all slept in (say what?!) and I enjoyed a fun run with Sarah and Ty.  We had a leisurely delicious breakfast and then Grandpa, Daddy, and I took the kids fishing on Grandpa's boat.

Then the kids, Gee Gee Sandy, Grandma, and I played at the campground park for a long time and the other Aunts and Uncles had a blast paddle boarding.  The kids love this park and look forward to it every year!

Then we all headed back up to the trailer for lunch.  Grandma even had a special cookie dough ice cream cake to celebrate Summer and Javonte's August birthdays!

After lunch, we all went out to the sandbar for water play and to listen to the band that was playing.  It was quite the feat to get us all there in one boat ride!!  We had some of us in the boat, and the rest of us divided into two tubes pulled behind the boat.  We had such fun out at the sandbar playing frisbee, swimming, riding on the air mattresses and paddle board, listening to the live band that was playing, and just being together.

We headed home for games, dinner, bed for the kiddos, and chat time for the adults.

Sunday was rainy, but we had lots of fun anyway, reading, eating, playing nerf guns, playing lots of games, and cuddling!

We cuddled in bed reading for a long time until everyone was awake!

Both kids loved Grandma's mosaic mysteries toy!

Cuddling with grandpa!

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa T for hosting us all, for all the great food, fun and memories!  We love you and are so blessed to have you all as family!