4th of July 2016

Independence Day was never an important holiday for me growing up. I actually didn’t care much about until 3 years ago when the framily decided to make it a yearly tradition to get a cabin all together and celebrate. It has now become one of my favorite holidays. Really I could still care less about the holiday but I do love knowing every year my family has this vacation to look forward to. The kids have a blast and make so many memories. Plus us adults really enjoy our time as well. We’ve rented a new cabin each year and thankfully we’ve been happy with all of them so far. Each had different things that we really liked. This year we went back to Hayward, WI. The cabin was once apart of a resort and we learned that it used to be the bar for the resort. I think the cabin was meant for us :) It had four bedrooms with a nice open concept kitchen, dining, living room. The beach wasn’t right out the front door which was nice but it was still really close. The kids loved playing in the sand, swimming in the water, and jumping off the platform into the deep water. Andrew was the fun loving uncle taking the kids out to jump. Carissa followed his lead and took a straggler out with her.

There was a boat dock right out the front door that we took advantage of. Cohen absolutely loved fishing. He was actually pretty good at catching some. Granted they were really small fish but that doesn’t really matter when it comes to having fun. I hadn’t tried fishing in years and caught one. I think that was the 3rd fish I ever caught. It was probably as big as my finger but my excitement was much bigger. We may need to buy this kid his own fishing pole and take him out again. Also every good fisherman eats a poptart while fishing ;)

We also used the boat dock for actually docking a boat. We rented a pontoon for one day and enjoyed an afternoon on the water. After cruising around the lake, the kids and Andrew showed off their skills jumping off the pontoon. Andrew was such a good sport once again. He helped all the kids and got back in several times when another kid decided they wanted to actually take a turn. There were also some important life lessons taught on the pontoon.