Family fun at the cabin for an entire week

We spent the entire last week at the cabin. We had everyone up from our family with exception of Katie. As usual the kids had a blast together and the adults had their own fun. We played in the water, boated, visited “Florida Point”, spent a lot of time at the Tiki Bar and Sand Bar, watched fireworks, attended a parade, played mini golf, went through a huge maze, and hung out with friends.

The weather could not have been better, there were only a couple of small instances of rain that occurred mostly during sleeping hours and the water was very refreshing.

**Disclaimer – I have a little tradition with the kids, they like when I shave my beard, I only do this when we have a long vacation. Don’t be scared 🙂

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Mom was very happy to have all of her boys together (miss you Katie!)
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Getting ready for the parade
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Nix and Jenn
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Nicky and the kids
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Netzinger girls
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Shane has a dance off with the kids

Logan and Joey were so excited to hangout

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Elizabeth and Chloe were water bugs the entire time
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One of many beautiful sunsets during the week
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Having fun with neighbors late one evening

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Many visits to “Florida Point”
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A slideshow of all of our fun (might take some time to view all of the pictures and videos)

Two weekends away

The last couple of weekends we went camping with Carolyn’s family and the next we spent at the cabin. We really lucked out on weather both times considering there was rain back at home 🙂

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The kids really enjoyed time with their cousins

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The next weekend we were off to the cabin and enjoyed some really nice weather (compared to many weekends so far this summer). Nix and Jen joined us for the weekend. Nix, Big Joe, and I went on an adventure to the other lake breaking through beaver dams and bogs to get to the other side.

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The kids fished, played with friends, and swam in the lake. Nix and I jumped off the dock with Elizabeth (video in photoset and below).
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Memorial Day Weekend

We had a great weekend at the cabin this weekend. We partied with neighbors, saved a old turtle from getting run over, played in a human hamster ball, played Dave’s new shuffleboard, and played bingo at the legion.

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Nix and I played bingo while the girls shopped, they later joined us for some mini-pitchers

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A ride on the pontoon

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Friday night…

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This old boy was not too happy with us but we got him across the street safely

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The slideshow

 

2011 Delta Block Party in Atlanta

We missed the MSP block party last year because we were at the cabin. The same conflict was scheduled this year. I thought that it would be fun to take Carolyn and the kids down to see where I stay and work when I visit Atlanta.

We headed down on Friday morning through Nashville (thanks Justin) and ended up at the hotel in the early evening. It was a lot of fun taking the kids through the airport and to the hotel where I usually stay. They were very curious and the mystery of where I am is now gone. The hotel staff upgraded our room for us which was really nice to have the extra space. We went swimming and then off to “Joe’s” for some dinner. The kids were sleeping until the hotel fire alarm went off and woke us all up 🙂 We were then off to the block party. The kids experienced some Georgia heat and were worn out pretty quickly. Especially Elizabeth who had dance performances late into the night two times earlier in the week.

We had a great time and we were home around dinner only about 24 hours after arriving in Atlanta this evening.

BTW, it was fun following Twitter via #DLBlockParty to keep up with what was happening.

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The kids and I at the Admin Building.

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Joey in the SkyClub in Nashville…

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Elizabeth and Joey enjoying their new bandanna’s
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Slideshow…

The Amazing Mirror Maze

After a couple of weeks mostly away from the family, we wanted to spend some
quality time so we went to the Amazing Mirror Maze at MOA. It was a lot of
fun! It was fun watching people very disoriented (myself included) and even
walking into the mirrors!

The four of us were finished going through and Joey wanted to go again. Here is a video of the craziness. All of our eyes were messed up a bit after getting out of the maze but that passed quickly 🙂