This is the best Hazen in the whole world

We had a great time being together with family at the Hazen this year.  We canoed, tubed, swam, played kick ball, roasted marshmallows, hiked, ran, biked, scooted, scavenger hunted, blew bubbles, colored, and played games.  I only get to see my cousins from Colorado 1-2 times a year so it is fun to see their families.  The kids for the first time did a 10:00pm dip with the full moon.  The adults started every morning with a 7:30am swim off of the dock.  We also played a classic game, Hit or Miss, where you try to write a series of common and uncommon things about a certain topic and you get scored accordingly depending on the roll of the die.  We were all surprised that the following things were not common according to our lists... things at the post office: a mail box, things you can slice: bread.  Then for those creative thinkers for uncommon things were... things with a remote: military drones, things in the dessert: maphia graves.

Blue Harbor

Eva had a great time with all her loving cousins at Blue Harbor.  They played with her endlessly and they taught her how to go down  a water slide and how to jump into the deep water.

After this trip Luke asked if Daddy could stay home all day every day.  They had some great time to bond.

Luke and Boden working on a huge hole in the sand.

Here Luke is flying a kite. 

My sister couldn't help herself at the latest rummage.  She came with two bags full of clothes for Eva.  Eva is certainly loved.  Trish might have wanted a grown up version of some of the clothes.  Thank you Trish.

We always go out to dinner on Saturday night as family of 16 for my mom's birthday. 

All the cousins at the harbor.

Firefly

Seven days of mosquitoes, no baths, pit toilets, sippy sups with accumulated sour milk, and sand in almost every diaper.  Who would ever think that would be so much fun?  Every year we flood the Reserve America system to try and get four sites at this lake.  We had so much fun with the Kostners, Van Dixhorns, Sieberers, Johnsons, and Krauses.  We swam at the beach every day.   When we went for a bike ride with two bike trailers, Luke and Jake yelled, "Faster Dave Faster," the entire time.  Dave put the bike into the lowest gear to give the impression he was speeding along and then would do accelerations down hill.  We watched a water ski show and both boys had to have new toy boats to match.  Luke's favorite was the hot flair boat.  We enjoyed sharing meals with the extended family and playing in the forest.

After a trip into Minoqua both kids got their clothes completly wet so here they are sitting with no clothes on eating doughnuts on the way home.  What a great trademark of summer.