A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN.....

We feel slightly jipped this year getting only 5 days at the cabin instead of 5 weeks....but we'll take what we can get. We headed off to heaven....I mean the cabin....on Friday and spent the next 5 days relaxing, riding, eating, creating, shooting, swimming, and laughing. The boys shed a few tears when we had to come home.....which made me laugh because I remember crying my eyes out every year as a child when it was time to leave the cabin....and I usually didn't stop the whole 5 hours home. We were lucky enough to have a PROFESSIONAL photographer (cousin Kevin) with us the whole time who captured some sweet memories. A HUGE thank you to him!

The boys and a dead little fish that they found floating down the river....and had to catch and play with. Gross!


Playing at the Island across the dock....


On the COLDEST day (40 degrees) Kevin decides to help the boys build the most wicked awesome sand castle ever....what a nice Uncle!


Can he be any cuter? No one loved the cabin more than Macks...being able to wake up in the morning and go RIGHT outside in his jammies...and stay outside ALL day long EVERY day. Pure Heaven to the little man!


On the dock getting ready to watch cousin Sitori's baptism


The boys with Sisi....we are so proud of you Si!


The men in my family have suddenly gotten COMPLETELY obsessed with guns. They all got their concealed weapons permit and now between the 6 boys in the family we have 6 guns. So the group went out shooting one day....and had so much fun!


Bill shooting....complete WITH his CTU shirt from the show 24....Sweet!


Oh, Island Park, ID.....we love you....until next year.....

9/7/2008
I had to add the following conversation Bill and I had with Mason in the car tonight. As we were driving home from my parents he was overly tired and started on a LONG schpeel like he usually does when he is tired and trying so hard to avoid falling asleep.

Mason: "Mom, I just wish we could live at the cabin. I mean, it is so much better than living here in the valley. (I have no idea where he got that word? We never use it!) It is just so much better to live by all the nature....like bugs and fish and water and dirt and rocks and stuff. I mean, here in the valley we don't have all that stuff. We just have a little bit of nature by our house. And living at the cabin would be so much more fun than living in a regular place. We could ride 4 wheelers all day and go fishing and just be outside more."

Mom: "Yeah, but ya know what? If we lived at the cabin you would still have to go to school and do chores and stuff. And you wouldn't have any friends that lived close by."

Mason: "So, I don't care about those things. It would still be the best. So why don't we go up there and start looking around for places to live, okay?"