Fun with Cousins

We had Austin and Koni come up and spend the night with us at our "cottage" on Sunday night. It was exactly like we had hoped it would be. On Sunday, we let the older kids stay up a little late playing board games. When that ended in disagreement (like a good game of Monopoly always does) we put them to bed and stayed up late playing cards ourselves. Joe won, much to Austin's chagrin, and apparently according to Austin I suck at it, but that is okay with me.
The next morning the kids had fun catching frogs and trying to catch turtles (I don't think they found any this time).

When they all got bored with that, they convinced us to go swimming in the lake. The kids all put life jackets on so they could go deeper and Austin took them on a swim/float around goat island.

Nate stayed for a while and then decided he didn't like the squishy bottom and spent his time playing on the side.

Emma, Adam and Lily

Joe and Nate

While we were up there, we noticed that most of our trees are growing:

It was so nice to be able to have a relaxing night away with friends, it's nice that the house is finally in good enough shape to allow it. We plan to have many more in the future.