Catching up

So I'm finally catching up on the blog.

First here are some pictures of Debbie and Mikey's new place.

Living room:


Kitchen:


Lake view:


Front:


Side:


Wednesday we left for Camp Croix. Camp Croix is in Danbury, WI which is by Spooner. It's one of the most fun times of the summer. It's a church camp with a big lodge and about 40 one room cabins. The cabins have four bunk beds in them, some of the them have dressers or shelves and they also have electricity. You kind kind of see from the following picture how small they are. There's another bunk bed on the other side and that's it. I'm pretty much taking the picture from the other wall.




In years past there would be about 25-30 of us going to camp every year, but as the cousins get older and start doing their own thing the numbers are dropping. This year we had at the highest point about 15 people but averaged about 7 people most of the weekend, people come and go all weekend long depending on what they have going on. That's just in our families group. There are a bunch of families that go to our church that also come and camp. So we pretty much know everyone in the camp grounds. We don't really do anything the entire time we're at camp. We eat, go to the beach and lay in the sun (or shade for me, Logan, Kim and Auntie), then head back up to the cabins to eat some more, then we just hang out by the fire and play games, read, talk. It's very relaxing!! The perfect end to a busy summer.

Logan did great! He loves to be outside so that helped. We brought a bunch of his toys with so that helped to keep him occupied and of course there was no shortage of people willing to hold him or play with him. All three days at the beach he took a 2 hour nap. We'd get to the beach, play in the water for a little bit and then he'd zonk out.



Here are a few pictures of Logan and his friend McKenzie Rud. Jamie (her mom) and I went to high school together. Jamie's family goes to our church and camps next to us at Camp Croix.




On the last day Logan started to lose his voice. It was very strange. At first we thought it was from all the smoke from the camp fire or else he was just getting sick from being in the water and outside for so long. But after today I really believe it was from teething. His bottom teeth are just starting to poke through. I've never heard of kids losing their voices because of teething, but you never know it could be connected. His voice is better today and the teeth just started to poke through. So I guess we'll never know for sure, but I can't believe he's getting teeth already, he's not even 5 months old yet.

Last night was the last night of softball for the year. It was the first round of playoffs so if we won our first game we kept going, but unfortunately we lost our game. I wasn't too sad at the time cause I was exhausted from the weekend and just wanted to go home and go to bed, but now I'm sad. It's so much fun to see everyone and spend time together. Oh well next year will be here before we know it and the fun will start again. Totally just thinking out loud here, but maybe we should have a softball party....that would be fun! We could do it in January or something when we haven't seen the people we play with in almost 6 months....I'll have to run that by BMeyer see what he thinks...

Sunday when we got home from camp we headed over to Mikey and Debbie's house for Stella's first birthday party (and Debbie's birthday too!) It was fun! Stella loved eating the cupcake and she made a HALL on the gifts! She's so cute. Here are a few pictures from the party. As you can see the party was too much for Logan....





This is the doll we gave Stella for her birthday. If you squeeze her stomach it laughs and the laugh is so funny you just can't help but laugh along!