Memorial Day Weekend

I didn't end up with a ton of pics from the weekend, and the ones I did have were *gasp* primarily of Owen....I wish I would have taken more of everyone else too, but I know between Jen and mom Kole - they probably made up for my deficiencies!! I'll just have to make in this post work with the ones I have....

Our Memorial Day weekend began on Thursday night...since Scott and I both had Friday off, we decided to head up to the cottage after work on Thursday.

Grandpa was already up there when we arrived, so we all relaxed Thurs night. Then Friday afternoon, Grandma, Jen, Paul, Kenzie and Dylan joined us. We celebrated Kenzie's second birthday on Saturday, complete with Elmo cake, made by Grandma.

We all wore elmo hats to celebrate (even the caribou wanted to wear one!)

little man in his elmo hat!

sweet little birthday girl!

Saturday morning, Jen, Mom Kole and I spent some time hitting up some garage sales and scored some great deals for the kids! Saturday night we had a 'fire-pot' and made some s'mores, yum!

O and Mom hangin by the fire...

Sunday morning, Tim and Emily joined us at the cottage. Tim and Scott headed out for some fishing while Emily and I took O on a walk and to the playground. Later in the afternoon, we all met up at the State Park for a picnic! It was fun eating outdoors and enjoying the weather, too bad it was a little windy, but sure beats snow!!

Papa and O picnic-ing.....

Tim and Emily...

After our picnic it was back to the cottage for some relaxing - while the boys stayed out fishing. Later in the evening we had an awesome fish fry! Mom Kole prepared all of the fish (all 150 fillets, right?!? ha!) it was mmmm mmmm good!!

Monday, was spent just relaxing. Scott did some more fishing and O and I just hung out and played.

Playing with a little truck on the deck...

my little goober and his two front teeth!!

oh, and did I mention...the weekend consisted of a lot of fishing, one of Scott's favorite pass times!! Here's little man hanging out by the bench on the dock watchin his papa fish...

so cute....

I think we have another fisherman on our hands! Helpin papa by holding the wax worm container and lovin every minute of it!! When Scott caught a smaller fish, we held it up to see if he'd touch it and he thought it was the greatest thing in the world and laughed like crazy!

What a great weekend with family and friends! Thanks mom and dad Kole for having us up at the cottage and thanks to everyone else for the fun and memories!! But isn't it always the case that after a nice vacation, you feel like you need some more rest?! This definitely rang true for O man...conked out with froggy buddy in his carseat!