never enough time....

We usually spend a good chunk of our summer in Crosslake. I've been spending about 1/3 of my summers there for the past 24 years. Its my home.
Summer is not right until I spend a day on Vicky's boat (or in recent years Greggs pontoon) enjoying the sun and the lake.

This year, instead of our usual 3-4 weeks up north, we only got one!
Very sad. But we enjoyed it while we could....and are counting down until next year!

Thankful List

For my family







For old friends*.....








and new......









And for BFFs

For people who make a difference

For camping...and crosslake.....

For Beaches....and cruises...and family vacations.....





For cocktails.....





Chipotle

Tim McGraw

Boneless Buffalo Wings

Tickles (the blankies)

Sunshine

Halloween

and much much more




*please note, you know even if your not pictured you mean the world to me....and if your pictures not up here its cause I dont see you enough you phucin ho!!! LOL

The last 10 days

What a vacation! WOW. I got there to find out Kevs grandma had passed away, I did not have a vehicle so that threw a little hitch in our plans. I caught a ride home and left my girl up with her grandma. After a sad two days of mourning we drove back up to spend the weekend. Kev came home and Izze and I stayed for 2 more days! It was lots of fun....

Here are some highlights:

Shishin' by the dam

My family

Cheese!

My girls! Geeg, Nea, Me and LoLo

Me and my Bug

My girl fishin

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My silly girl, much braver then momma

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Bubbles! What a talker!

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Oh and the best highlight....

Sett scense..... A group of beautiful children and thier parents are up at the ranger station making bird feeders. They are filling pine cones full of shortening and bird feed. My darling little girl is workign on hers with her Ma'Ma' (Grandma) when Ma'Ma' accidently drops Izze's feeder onto Izze's head, resulting in bird seed and shortening in her hair and down her face. Izze looks up at Ma'Ma' and exclaims "OH SHIT!". THATS my girl! *sighs and bows head*

Glowing Acres

Oh what fun we had camping. The kids held a 4th of july parade for us with the go carts and the ATV and it was very amusing! We got to swim and eat and have camp fires and eat and slip and slide and eat and go for four wheeler rides and.....oh yeah eat! Here are some pictures from our trip!

My people....



My very own fireworks....


My brother with his sparklers...


Me and my girl Giget....


The kids watching the fireworks....

Camping

We had a blast camping.

We stayed up late and partied and ate chocolate at all hours of the night. We even played with Grandma's black berry and called daddy nightly and cuddled with him over the phone.

We went on lots of wagon rides and stroller rides and played with our friends.

We played on the beach, drank lots of lake water, and got some sun.

We went out to the island...

We spent some time on the boat....

It was TONS of fun!

Gone Camping...

We are headed out. Izze and I that is. We are going up north to the lake! Yay! We will spend the week with my mom, my brother (from my mom), my sister (from my dad) and my cousins who will be up there too! Its the first time we get to camp in my moms camper! YAY...we have always stayed elsewhere, because thats what mom did. But now she has her own!

Here are some things we really hope to do:
Go boating
Go on walks
Have the BEST ice cream in MN, a DOOSIE at that
Go to the Turtle Races in Nissiwa
Play on the beach
Sit by the fire
Do a little fishing
Read some books
Play in the dirt

Here are some of the inevitable that we aren't looking forward to:
Being stuck inside when it rains with 6 people in the camper
Mosquito Bites
Sun burns
Wood Ticks
Blisters
Tornando warnings (we always seem to have one in June)
100 degree heat with humidity (another frequent of ours)
My car breaking...for the past two years I have had to pay for repairs up there, where they charge the vacationers an arm and a leg!!!!

We will probably check in because after all roughing it does include cell phones, laptops and wireless internet!