Summer Recap Vol. III

We started August off with a trip up to Stormy Lake (in northern Wisconsin). Matt's family has been going to Stormy Lake ever since his mom was a little girl and they usually spend a week or two up there. However, this year Matt's parents bought a place up at Stormy Lake and the family couldn't be happier that we can all go up whenever we want!! Much of the summer was spent doing work around the cottage, but we all planned to go up the first weekend in August to celebrate Matt's parents' 35th wedding anniversary. We had a great time with Matt's parents and siblings (Cammie, Kyle, Tyler, and Mollie). The weather was perfect and we had a great time skiing, laying out, eating, and celebrating Matt's parents.

Matt's mom had these sweatshirts made for all of us...even little Sadie, although hers looks a bit like it says "Torm Lake"

The purpose of the weekend was to celebrate Matt's parents' 35th wedding anniversary. And hopefully they enjoyed the weekend as much as we did. Obviously Matt and his siblings are all here because of their great marriage and as Matt's wife, I, too, am so thankful for their relationship. They have a great marriage and are a wonderful example to all of us kids of what a Godly marriage looks like. Matt is a wonderful husband and I know he learned much of what he knows from watching his father be a wonderful husband to his mother. We love you guys and are so thankful for the legacy you have left and will continue to leave.

We went out for dinner on Saturday night to celebrate their anniversary. It was a great time as we don't have the entire family together all that often other than holidays.

Wyatt loved making sandcastles and playing down at

the water. He and Grammy played in the sand all morning one day.

Grammy and Papa got Wyatt his very own wetsuit and he thought it was pretty cool...just like Uncle Ty and Dad


Making smores around the campfire with Dad

Matt skiing..Wyatt was pretty amazed to see this and has been pretending to be waterskiing ever since we got home. He puts on a pair of Matt's shoes (since they are so big on him) and leans backwards while holding onto a belt hanging in the closet and pretends to be a skier. Then he falls and says, "Skier down!"
So excited to say "good job" to Daddy.

A FEW MORE PICS FROM THE SUMMER.......

One of my favorite pics of Matt and Sadie...

Aren't these t-shirts the cutest? My sis-in-law Cammie got them for the kids in Chicago at the T-Shirt Deli and they are adorable. They came in a white paper bag with a check stapled to the top, complete with a bag of potato chips inside and the t-shirts wrapped up like subs.