Another cabin trip!

We've been up to the cabin so much this summer - Ben is loving it :) He definitely is a bigger cabin fan than I am - I DO love it up there, but I also love being in the cities in the summer too! It's been a good mix so far. This time, we made plans to go up with our friends Jake and Allison, who hadn't been up for MANY years.... I honestly think it was 2005 the last time they were there - crazy! I went back to look at my pics - my how times have changed. Back then I took a grand total of 12 photos for the entire weekend, and none are actually good - this was the ONLY one I took that actually including both Jake and Allison in it - the best part of this photo is seeing Justin with a lot of hair :)

Um yeah. What a great photo.

The weather was beautiful - my parents also were up there, which was great for us because they could watch Annie sometimes! I DO so love hearing Annie wake up, and going out to get her, only to see my mom beat me to it - have at it, Grandma! Anyway, here are some photos from the weekend!

Making the ladies breakfast!


Always have to share with this one, of course


Annie happily played with a wipe for the entire pontoon ride... whatever works!






Ben and Jake enjoying the floaties with a whole cooler of beer. Because 1 each obviously isn't enough.


My parents watched Annie on Friday night, so we got to go out to The Wharf for dinner - crappy food again, but fun people watching!


yeah, these are the kinds of boats you see there. Nuts!


Ben was lounging


Annie is TRYING to get on her own shoes - needs a little work :)


The weather was a bit iffy, so we took a trip to Nisswa to check things out - the sun was bright at this point, obviously, given the shut eyes here :)


Annie loves all the toys at the bookstore!


Annie was a bit wary of the horse outside the Totem Pole...




Because of a horrible rumor started by Jake that A&Ws were closing, we felt we HAD to hit this one up. Turns out to be false, but I was still glad for the root beer floats!


So was Annie!




Ha - yeah, not my proudest parenting moment, but everyone deserves some fried food sometimes, right?!?!






After that lunch, Annie's snack was just a BIT healthier


Right after Ben lost his sunglasses in the lake. It's okay, they were from high school :)

Ben encouraged Jake to try the Leisure Dive - it was pretty hilarious.

Yeah, Ben kind of sucked at leisure diving :)


And thanks for getting my camera all wet, too :)


Annie was all......... WTF, mate?




This one makes me LOL - he hurt himself pretty good there :)

Then it was time for a little waterskiing - they had gone earlier and both claimed to be drinking beers while waterskiing, which Allison and I didn't believe, so they had to recreate it.

Way to go, guys :)


Annie still liked to SHOUT to people from the deck :)


Got to enjoy her first corn on the cob, from our CSA!


Annie loves her grandpa's watch (and really any bracelet type thing!)


Ben was a good waiter out by the fire :)


Another bonus of my parents being there - breakfasts cooked by Dad!


Annie kept climbing on this and bouncing - also note how often she pulls at her belly button...


She also likes telling us Shhhhhhhh lately :)


One last pontoon ride with the grandparents after Jake and Allison left!




I gave Annie an entire banana for the first time at lunch - she didn't quite finish it - so now I know that she DOES have a limit of how much banana she can eat!


The ride home - too bad this only occurred for 45 minutes, instead of 2 hours :)