Birthday Girl Weekend!

Friday was Lilly's 1st birthday which we celebrated Saturday evening. This weekend Kevin, his girlfriend, Nicole and her children Lisa and Matthew were our guests. It was the first time Kevin had been up to the cabin and Joel & I gather he enjoyed himself quite well. Kevin is Joel's childhood buddy and they go back as far as going to kindergarden together. Kevin's brother Keith also was known to hang with them throughout the years, but he has been MIA for the last 3 years since getting married! (sorry Keith, had to get 1 jab in there seeing Kevin informed us you keep up with the blog!!)

Saturday morning everyone tried to sleep in, but were rudly awoken by the bass boats taking off across the lake at 6:30am for the start of yet another fishing tournament. Kevin, Nicole, Lisa and Matthew were also treated to a immature eagle sernading them in the pop-up camper.......as Lisa stated "It was the same song time & time again". Well isn't that most of today's teenagers music as well!!!! LOL We had a very quick breakfast and hung around until it was time to hit the water. It was a beautiful day with lots of sun. The day was spent on the jetski and at the island. A little sun burn was to be had by all. We grilled hotdogs for dinner and munch on Lilly's birthday cake for dessert.




















Lilly with her cake















Lilly enjoying a taste of her cake, but not too much because a moment on the lips and it's a life time on the hips.

We wrapped up the evening with a bon fire and Steve playing the guitar and trying to come up with a good example of a oxi-moron!. It was great!

Sunday morning everyone was up and adam by 9:00 am for a belgium waffle breakfast. After breakfast dishes were washed and put away everyone hit the dock for jetskiing & tubing. Nicole even drove the jetski by herself (Kevin was on board though)















Kevin taking Lisa out for a ride on the jetski















Nicole taking Kevin for a ride on the jetski
















And they returned safely back to the dock
















Nicole sittin on the dock waiting the jetski take off again
















Lisa not wanting the weekend to end.....but we know she will be back!!

All & all it was a lovely weekend and hope that Kevin & the crew enjoyed themselves as much as we enjoyed having them!

What a productive weekend

Well, as you all know, Lilly came down with kennel cough and we needed to stay home for the weekend. Joel was a machine this weekend getting a lot done in the laundry room. I teased him that he is fixing the laundry room up for another woman (the new homeowner). It is going to be absolutely beautiful when it is done. During the course of the weekend.......the microwave blew up! So now in the mix of things, we have to purchase a new frickin under the cabinet microwave!!

Sunday, we brought in the reinforcements in........and Big Joe came home for awhile. He is able to do projects during the day while Joel is working, so it takes some of the pressure off of him. Lilly is doing ok with her kennel cough, but still is having bouts of it now & then. Medicine is slowly working.

Monday, Big Joe did some re-wiring in the mechanical room in preparation for sheet rock and installed a new florescent light in laundry room while Jonathan & Michael broke down the cement laundry tubs. Once that area was cleaned out, they disconnected the washing machine. My project for the day was to go onto craigslist and find a new/used microwave, which I did for $50.00!!!!! hip hip hooray. I also went looking for bids to do some carpet installation & hardwood floor sanding. After Joel came home and we had dinner, the guys installed a new steel back door and screen door. We also scheduled our Realtor to come out and meet with us on Thursday evening to preparation for the big day..........putting our house on the market.

Tuesday is another big day............Big Joe is going to be finishing up the mulch in the back yard (now that I have beautiful green grass), touch up the mulch in the front yard, re-wire electric above shower (make it right), remove the shower and clean/paint the cement blocks behind the shower. Jonathan has a somewhat easy day........he is packing up is bedroom up. He was 4 choices: garage sale, his room at the lake, storage and my favorite....THE TRASH!!!!! lol. His days are getting numbered, so he is spending alot of his evenings hanging with his friends. We officially move him to the lake next week & he starts school in Chetek on September 1st. Tonight when Joel gets home, the guys are going to start jack hammering the floor in preparation to install the new shower drain & new shower.

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Glad the weekend is over!

Last weekend was Jonathan's cabin party with all his South St Paul friends. Jeromy, Tyler, Chase, Derek, Michael, Bri, Hailey and Heather all came for some fun in the sun.

They started with pulling an "all nighter" with gaming.......I woke up at 4:30am and most of them were still going strong. Lilly tried to be a "tweenager" and keep up with them, but didn't make it.

Saturday morning started out with rain and clouds.....it almost looked like the day was going to be a bust. So most of the gang decided to grab some shut eye. By early afternoon the skys cleared out to a beautiful day. We were able to get some jet skiing in and a trip to the island. All in all I think everyone had a blast. Saturday evening was taking walks and more gaming.

Sunday morning started with more clouds. We received a phone call that Chase's father was in the hospital and not doing well, so Big Joe ran him down to exit 41 where his neighbors picked him up to bring him to his family at the hospital. I fixed Jonathan's favorite breakfast, egg slop & toast. Then it was the Sunday cabin clean up.........and we were all back to South St Paul by 5:00pm.

Well, now for the bad news for this weekend..........
I have been bring Lilly to the dog park down the street from our SSP home. Last night she woke up very conjested. Took her to the vet this morning and she has kennel cough. She had been vacinated for it, but they aren't 100%. Kennel cough is 110% contagious, so we can't go to the lake this weekend, because we don't want to infect Zoey or Maxx. So we are staying home to do more work on the house in preparation to put it on the market by October 1st.

Take care

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What a nice weekend

This past weekend Wayde, Shelley, Klaus, Ann & Sheldon (Shea, too!) came up for some fun in the sun. Everyone but Sheldon & Shea arrived friday night, had a couple cocktails and hit the sack by midnight.

Everyone slept in on Saturday morning until around 8:00 am then we had a nice breakfast of Belgium Waffles. Once the relaxing conversation and dishes were done, the sun started to come out. It was very windy, but us girls decided we were going to go out on the boat no matter what! So we gathered all the "boat food" we prepared and headed out to fine a nice sunny non windy bay to park, eat & drink. We caught up with Pam & Steve and hooked together and shortly after that, Tim & Sue showed up on their Brand spanken new pontoon with Suzie & Max on board. After they tied up to our little floating convoy......Sheldon called to be picked up at The Pokegama dock. So Tim disconnected & sped away with his 75 hp motor to get him. After awhile we all had to separate to go home to get cleaned up for our dinner. We had 17 people going to Birch Point in Bloomer for the all-you-can-eat buffet. It was wonderful as usual. After we came home we had a couple cocktails and put our full bellies to bed.

On Sunday morning we had make your own omelettes. Turned out to be a gerat sucess and everyone got them just they way they like them. After breakfast dishes everyone got their suits on and headed for the lake. We just hung out down by the boat, laid in the sun & played on the jet ski. Everyone headed for home later in the afternoon. It was a fabulous weekend and we always look forward to when Wayde & Shelley and Klaus & Ann can clear their busy schedules to come & visit.

Next weekend it is the younger generation coming. Jonathan is having his first annual cabin party with all his old friends & new Chetek friends. One side note........Yesterday we received news that Jonathan is officially a Chetek Bulldog. He will be starting school in Chetek on Setptember 1st. He is very excited to start his new school.

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