moose on the loose

We look forward to it for nearly a year... Cedar Lake, Jerrie and Ellie's, Canada. No matter how you slice it, it is a little piece of heaven.

It has taken many different forms over the years... from big groups of us to just a few.. from loud roucous dice and pinnacle games to quiet evenings reading by the lake... and now we've started bringing our kids here. Seems so crazy that not too long ago, we were scrounging for beers from a nearby town because we'd already maxed out on our limit (a case per person to bring across the border duty free). Tomorrow we will go home with 10 beers in our cooler...

Things change when you have kids. Vacations definately change. But I wouldn't change it for the world. I loved every minute of all the time I had this week to spend with my babies, who are not such babies anymore... and my niece Zoe who is so grown up... and my parents who are great sports about being cabinmates with a little girl who wakes up crying all night...and my husband, who is an amazing dad...........

Here are a few photos from our adventures at Jerrie and Ellie's, Cedar Lake Camp in Ontario (just a little plug for J&E).

Packing it in... we made use of nearly every space in our truck. And we had to send several things with my parents... but we managed to fit it all in! Even the kids!

Jaxon, checking out the rocks. He was pretty thrilled to finally be at 'the canada where grandma and grandpa and zoe were'.  Not the other Canada. There were lots of 'ideas of Canada' floating around the car on the way up. After a night stay at our 'other house' in Fort Francis (the Super 8), we rolled into camp right at check-in time. Whew!

And about an hour later, Scott and Jaxon were off to do the fishing. This is the cleanest those boys were all week.

Kiley, saying, take me! Take me!

Couple hours later... Jaxon is on the leaderboard with a 19 1/2 inch walleye caught on his Buzz lightyear rod, later renamed- the Magic Rod. Everywhere he went he caught fish on that thing.

Here are some that made it into our bellies for dinner. Yummy! Sorry fishies!

Jaxon and Zoe were quite the pair. They went on treasure hunts, made up songs about moose (which I will not sing here or it will be stuck in my head all day). Doh! Too late. Moose on the Loose, Moose on the Loose. His name is Deuce. He drinks a lot of juice. He's Craaaazy. He's Haaazy. And he's a little bit Lazy.

Jazz hands!!

Finding the treasure!!

At the campfire. Campfire? What campfire? These rocks are awesome!!

Ghost stories! Tales of the 12-eyed green giant monster, Doolittle the garbage eating monster, and the flower snatcher.

Last night of fishing... and time to go home. Till next year, we will cherish the memories made at Cedar Lake.