Cabin Fever

Chris' Grandma has a cabin in Arnold. We just went for the first time (besides Chris) a few weekends ago. Chris ended up going with the girls the first weekend because Dylan got sick with a bad flu, so I stayed home with him. Then on the last night, he felt a little better, so we drove up and met Chris and the girls. It's so beautiful. It's tucked back in the tall trees.


Here's the living room, with Sophia enjoying the couch.


They played Yatzee, like Chris did when he was a kid.


And then, as if the cabin wasn't fun enough, there is a lake there too. Lakemont Pines. It has a sandy beach, paddle boats, sand castle building competitions, ping-pong, shuffleboard, and a snack shack. You have to own a cabin there to use the lake. Everyone has to wear a tag showing they can be there, so it's nice a private.



The girls on a paddleboat. Dylan was sleeping on the shore in Chris' arms.


Since we had so much fun as a family the weekend before, we went back for Labor Day weekend. And we let the girls each bring a friend. Addison brought Victoria, and Sophia brought Miko.

We were all PILED into our Yukon. All 5 kids and ALL our stuff. We had to bring sleeping stuff, towels, our clothes, our food, and us and somehow we all fit.....BARELY!

Playing a round of UNO and eating lots of junk food.

We went to the lake and Dylan did a lot of sleeping.

Miko and Sophia sunning themselves. They swam a lot. They loved to jump off the two floating docks. They are both great swimmers.

Addison and Victoria TEXTING and sunning themselves. They swam too, but not as much as they texted.

The dock and beach area. We hope to go a lot more next summer because it's a great weekend get-away. It's about 2 1/2 hours from our house. Thank you Grandma Alves for letting us use it!